Arthur M. Silverstein, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine: history of immunology.

Institute of the History of Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University
1900 East Monument Street
Baltimore, MD 21205

E-mail: arts@jhmi.edu

Recent Publications:

A History of Immunology (Academic Press, 1989).  "The End is Near!: The Phenomenon of the Declaration of Closure in a Discipline," Hist. Sci. 37 (1999), 1-19.

and Noel R. Rose, "On the Mystique of the Immunological Self," Immunol. Rev. 159 (1997), 197-206.

"Paul Ehrlich: The Founding of Pediatric Immunology," Cellular Immunology 174 (1996), 1-6.

"The Heuristic Value of Experimental Systems: the Case of Immune Hemolysis," J. Hist. Biol. 27 (1994), 437-447.

and Thomas Soderqvist, "Participation in Scientific Meetings: A New Prosopographical Approach to the Disciplinary History of Science."

"The Case of Immunology, 1951-72," Social Studies of Science 24 (1994), 513-548.

"Ocular Immunology: On the Birth of a New Discipline," Cellular Immunol. 136 (1991), 504-518.

The Dynamics of Conceptual Change in Twentieth Century Immunology," Cellular Immunol. 132 (1990), 515-531.