Nonself Help: How Immunology Might Reframe the Enlightenment

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 122-137

  Napier, A David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Identity; Immunology; Medical anthropology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; HISTORY; IMMUNOLOGY; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY; ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84856483308     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: 15481360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1360.2012.01130.x     Document Type: Article

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