Chapter 1 Introduction: Speculations Concerning the Origins of the Self

Chapter 2 Editor’s Comments to Löwy

Chapter 3 The Immunological Construction of the Self

Chapter 4 Editor’s Comments to Varela, Chernyak and Tauber

Chapter 5 Organism: A Meshwork of Selfless Selves

Chapter 6 The Dialectical Self: Immunology’s Contribution

Chapter 7 Editor’s Comments to Root-Bernstein

Chapter 8 Self, Nonself and the Paradoxes of Autoimmunity

Chapter 9 Editor’s Comments to Foster and Sarkar

Chapter 10 Directed Mutation in Escherichia Coli : Theory and Mechanisms

Chapter 11 Lamarck Contre Darwin, Reduction Versus Statistics: Conceptual Issues in the Controversy over Directed Mutagenesis in Bacteria

Chapter 12 Editorial Comments to Sober by Sarkar

Chapter 13 Organisms, Individuals, and Units of Selection

Chapter 14 Editor’s Comments to Williamson

Chapter 15 Sequential Chimeras

Chapter 17 The Role of Embryonic Induction in Creating Self

Chapter 18 Epilogue: The Uncut Self