Alfred I. Tauber (born 1947), Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine and Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, is a philosopher and historian of science, who, since 1993, has served as Director of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University. Since 2004, he has held a part-time visiting professorship at Tel Aviv University, where he teaches in the Cohn Institute for the History of Science and Ideas and supervises resea...
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Alfred I. Tauber (born 1947), Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine and Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, is a philosopher and historian of science, who, since 1993, has served as Director of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University. Since 2004, he has held a part-time visiting professorship at Tel Aviv University, where he teaches in the Cohn Institute for the History of Science and Ideas and supervises research in the medical school. While primarily teaching and writing in science studies and bioethics, he originally trained as a biochemist and hematologist. Aside from over 125 research publications in biochemistry and cell biology, Tauber has published extensively on 19th and 20th century biomedicine, the development of modern immunology, the doctor-patient relationship, and contemporary science studies.
An authority on the philosophy of immunology, Alfred Tauber published the first philosophical study of contemporary immunology, The Immune Self...
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