Recent Books by Prof. Tauber

Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility. Cambridge:
The MIT Press, 2005.

Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. (Paperback 2003)

Confessions of a Medicine Man: An Essay in Popular Philosophy. Cambridge: The MIT Press, A Bradford Book, 1999 (Paperback 2000). Awarded “Outstanding Academic Title” by Choice (journal of the American Library Association) and First Prize, Allied Health category, by the American Medical Writers Association.

(co-authored with Scott H. Podolsky) The Generation of Diversity: Clonal Selection Theory and the Rise of Molecular Immunology Cambridge. Harvard University Press, 1997. (Paperback 2000)

Edited Works By Prof. Tauber

(with Gourko, H., Williamson, D.I., edited, translated, and annotated) The Evolutionary Biology Papers of Elie Metchnikoff. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine Papers By Prof. Tauber:

(With Ben Jacob, E., and Shapira, Y.) Seeking the Foundations of Cognition in Bacteria: From Schrödinger’s Negative Entropy to Functional Information, Physica A, In press.

Immunology, in The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia, edited by S. Sarkar. New York: Routledge, In press.

Immunology and the enigma of selfhood, in Growing Explanation, M. Norton Wise (ed). Durham: Duke University Press. In press.

Self-portrait as history of science, in Writing Recent Science: The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine, R. E. Doal and T. Soderqvist (eds.). London and New York: Routledge, In press.

Metchnikoff and the Phagocytosis Theory. Nature Reviews, Cell Biology. 4:897-901, 2003
The Philosopher as Prophet: The Case of Emerson and Thoreau. Philosophy in the Contemporary World. 10:89-103, 2003.

Emerson and Thoreau on America the Beautiful. Rendezvous. 36:57-78, 2002.

A Mirror of Ourselves—Reflections on Thoreau. Bostonia (Winter 2001–2002): 34–37.

The Biological Notion of Self and Non-Self. Stanford Encyclopedia of Science, 2002.

(With Crist, E.) The Phagocyte, the Antibody and Agency in Immunity: Contending Turn-of-the-Century Approaches, in A.M. Moulin and A. Cambrosio (eds.), Singular Selves: Historical Issues and Contemporary Debates in Immunology. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001, pp. 115–39.

Tales of Neglected (Orphaned?) Histographies, in A.M. Moulin and A.Cambrosio (eds.), Singular Selves: Historical Issues and Contemporary Debates in Immunology. Amsterdamn: Elsevier, 2001, pp. 247–58

Moving Beyond the Immune Self? Seminars in Immuology. 12:241-48, 2000.

A Call for Scientific Literacy: The Claims for Public Understanding, in Effects of Global Business on Scientific Research, M. Balaban and H-P Sambuc (eds.) Geneva: Science and Conscience of Man Foundation, 2000. pp. 61–84.

(with Crist E) Selfhood, Immunity, and the Biological Imagination: The Thought of Frank Macfarlane Burnet. Biology and Philosophy. 15:509-33, 2000.

Ethics Papers By Prof. Tauber

Taking Medical Ethics Seriously: Defining the Moral Domain in the Medical Record. American Journal of Bioethics. In press.

The Reflexive Project: Reconstructing the Moral Agent. History of the Human Sciences, In press.

(With Cooper, R.A.) New Physicians for a New Century. Academic Medicine, In press.

Medicine as a Moral Epistemology. In R. Paton and L. McNamara (eds.) Multidisciplinary Approaches to Theory in Medicine. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005, pp. 63–88.

Balancing Medicine’s Moral Ledger: Trust and Responsibility. In: B. Darling-Smith (ed.), Responsibility, Volume 26, Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2005.

Medicine and the Call for a Moral Epistemology. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 48:42-53, 2005.

Sick Autonomy. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 46:484-495, 2003.

Medical Ethics, in Encyclopedia and Religion, J.W. van Huyssteen, N.H. Gregersen, N.R. Howell, W.J. Wildman, (eds.). New York: Macmillan. 2003, pp. 548–52.

Autonomy Gone Mad. Philosophy in the Contemporary World. 10:75-80, 2003.

A philosophical Approach to Rationing. Medical Journal of Australia. 178(9): 454-456, 2003.

Implementing Medical Ethics. Journal of the Israel Medical Association. 4:1091-2, 2002.

So Many Patients, So Much Pain. Newsday, September 22, 2002, p. A32.

The Ethical Imperative of Holism in Medicine, in Promises and Limits of Reductionism in the Biomedical Sciences, M.H.V. Van Regenmortel and D.L. Hll (eds.) West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2002, pp. 261–78.

Putting Ethics into the Medical Record. Annals of Internal Medicine. 136:559-563, 2002. Critical correspndence: 137:932-3, 2002.

The Quest for Holism in Medicine, in The Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Accomodating Pluralism, D. Callahan (ed.). Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2002, pp. 172–89.

Medicine, Public Health and the Ethics of Rationing. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 45:16-30, 2002.

Historical and Philosphical Reflections on Patient Autonomy. Health Care Analysis: An International Journal of Health Care Philosophy and Policy. 9:299-319, 2001.

Le role de Nietzsche dans l’elebaration de l’utopie medicale, in L’utopie de la Sante Parfaite, L.Sfez (ed.) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2001,
pp. 29–37.