Abstract

Tending Adam's Garden describes and explains the way in which our immune system works from a novel perspective. The book uses metaphors and examples to bring the immune system to life and explores the fundamental miracle of nature. Written in plain language for a broad audience, this book encompasses much more than just immunology, exploring more fundamental matters such as causality, information, energy, evolution, cognition and individuality, as well as the strategy of the immune system and its role in health and disease.

• Provides a unique perspective on the immune system from one of the keenest scientific and philosophical brains in the world
• Uses metaphors and case histories to explore themes in an accessible manner
• Written in plain language requiring no specialized vocabulary or specific scientific background in the subject

"Cohen's book is an excellent and genuine scientific work."
-Yair Neuman, Ben-Gurion University of Negev, for SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE (June 2002)
"...without a question a special book…full of insights and felicitous comparisons and analogies."
-SCIENCE (July 2001)
"Tending Adam's Garden is an ambitious statement about biology and like ... Richard Dawkin's The Selfish Gene, it seeks to establish a new vision,a different way of conceiving the organism."
- The New England Journal of Medicine
"The book is beautiful, as I suspected it would be, full of deep thought and philosophy. We are in need of your visions."
- Alex Whelan, St James Hospital, Dublin
"It's TERRIFIC. Very clear, very well written, without a trace of cliché or second-hand thought. And amusing, full of good jokes and poetical statements. Most important, it seems to me to be true ..."
- Av Mitchison, University College London
"Putting my reservations aside, I can recommend ,Tending Adam's Garden highly to laypeople and scientists alike, whether they are knowledgeable about immunology or not, as one way into the immune system."
- Charles A. Janeway, Jr., Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine on American Scientist Webpage