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Tracing A Link Between Science And Xenophobia

Post author By lmacret
Post date May 14, 2019

Xenophobia often borrows metaphors from immunology Piron Guillaume

The self/other theory of immunology rests on the xenophobic assumption that ‘others’ are always dangerous and need to be removed.

Tags fear, immunology, india, Margaret McFall-Ngai, outsider, Peter Medawar, Polly Matzinger, science, self/other theory, skin graft, Thomas Gibson, world war ii, xenophobia

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