creators_name: Wallace, Rodrick
type: preprint
datestamp: 2001-06-06
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:40
metadata_visibility: show
title: Immune cognition and culture: implications for the AIDS vaccine
subjects: bio-theory
full_text_status: public
keywords: AIDS, culture, HIV, immune cognition, information theory, vaccine
abstract: We examine the implications of IR Cohen's 'cognitive
principle' address of the immune system [1-3] for the HIV
vaccine program.  This approach takes on a special 
importance in the context of recent work by Nisbett et al.
[4] showing clearly that central nervous system (CNS) 
cognition is fundamentally different for populations having
different cultural systems, and in the context of a growing
body of evolutionary anthropology which suggests that such
effects are inevitable, since culture is as much a part of
human biology 'as the enamel on our teeth'.
date: 2001
date_type: published
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Wallace, Rodrick  (2001) Immune cognition and culture: implications for the AIDS vaccine.  [Preprint]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/1543/3/aidscog2.pdf