Endless Immunity

Former Director of the Immunology department of Institute Pasteur in Paris, Marc Daëron, MD, PhD, MPhil, is currently an Inserm emeritus research director at the Centre d’immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, an invited scientist at Institute Pasteur, and an associate member of the Institut d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques.

• Part I. Introduction: A System to Defend Living Beings Against Each Other. Part II. The Defense: Before the Immune System.- The Invention of the Immune System.- The Immune System Facing its Challenges. Part III. Logics of the Living: In Space and Time.- Itself.- Who am I? Part IV. The Compromise:- The Reaction.- The Relationship.- Beyond Good and Evil.- Part V. Conclusion: A System that Enables Living Beings to Live with each Other.