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| Fight or Flight? : Evolutionary Medical Structure of Immunology, its Philosophical Implications |
| Fight or Flight ? : Evolutionary Medical Structure of Immunology, its Philosophical Implications Jongduck Choi The aim of my paper is to interpret diverse relations between host and parasite by integrating evolutionary medicine and immunology. An immunological thinking could be reconstructed by specific metaphors such as ‘fighting’, ‘killing’, ‘protection’, ‘immune evasion’, ‘seizure’, or ‘coexistence’. The response of infectious microbes against the host’s attack, where the strained relations between microbes and immune system are activating, directs toward for their own surviving and reproducing through the incessant mutations of microbes as like bacteria and virus do. I will hereby show that the very philosophical category of evolutionary immunology might be formed through my thesis. It is to be unfolded as below. Firstly, I will arrange the evolutionary etiology. Secondly, I show that infectious diseases could be explained well by using the immunological metaphors. 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