Jean Dausset

A Nod in the Direction of Life The Great HLA Adventure

Jean Dausset’s finding that white blood cells play an active role in immunization won him the Nobel Prize for Medicine and opened a new area of biological investigation, both in pure and in applied research. The HLA system harbours a unique peptide which may be regarded as the essence of the self in opposition to everything else much as the pineal gland was regarded as the seat of the soul by Descartes. The distinction between the self and the non-self is an essential one in immunology where an individual’s defensive system must fight off foreign bodies while at the same time defending his or her own system. In his book, Jean Dausset recounts the story of his discovery and introduces the reader to other fascinating aspects of his life and work.

Éric Vivier, Marc Daëron

Immunotherapy of cancers History of a medical revolution

This book tells the story of the research and ideas that led to this medical revolution.

Pascale Cossart

The New Microbiology

New essential data about the life of bacteria, their resistance to antibiotics, inter-bacterial communication, etc.

Edgardo D. Carosella, Thomas Pradeu

The Other Is Within Us

Patrice Debré

Research in Times of Epidemics From AIDS to Covid

The views of a doctor, who analyzes the AIDS crisis as the catalyst for a new health democracy, in relation to the recent debates on the management of public health policies.

Patrice Debré

Robert Debré, a French vocation A very great physician, a great scientist, a model for the French

The style of the narrative is very upbeat, almost that of a novel. The story of a family that is also a way of restoring the history of France from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. The reputation of the author, and