Introduction. Chapter 1. What Has Immunology Tried to Explain?. Chapter 2. Autoimmunity, Symbiosis, and Organism. Chapter 3. The Immune System at the Organism Level. Chapter 4. The Immune System Omnipresent in the Biological World. Chapter 5. Metaphysics of Immunity. Chapter 6. Toward a New Philosophy of Life. Epilogue.
Biography
Hidetaka Yakura, M.D., Ph.D. (Pathology), Ph.D. (Epistemology, History of Science and Technology), is the director of the Institute for Science and Human Existence. He started his career with seven years of research in immunology at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. After serving as the director of the Department of Immunology and Signal Transduction at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Medical Research, he embarked on philosophical investigations of immunity in Paris in 2007, receiving his Ph.D. from Sorbonne University Paris Cité (presently, Paris Cité University) in 2016. He is currently exploring new perspectives on nature, life, and human existence.
