ALFRED I. TAUBER

 

Fred Tauber is the Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine and Professor of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences of Boston University. Dr. Tauber was appointed Director of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University in 1993. He teaches courses in the history and philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology and medicine, and medical ethics. Dr. Tauber also continues to practice hematology at the Boston Medical Center.

Dr. Tauber served an internship and residency at the University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals, followed by advanced training at Tufts-New England Medical Center, Harvard Medical School and the Robert B. Brigham Hospital. He spent four years on the faculty at Harvard Medical School before joining Boston University School of Medicine in 1982.

Aside from his research publications in immunology, Dr. Tauber has published extensively on 19th and 20th century biomedicine, contemporary science studies, and ethics. He is the author of The Immune Self, Theory or Metaphor? (Cambridge, 1994), Confessions of a Medicine Man, An Essay in Popular Philosophy (1999), and Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing (California 2001 - 2nd cut), as well as co-author of Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology (Oxford, 1991) and The Generation of Diversity, Clonal Selection Theory and the Rise of Molecular Immunology (Harvard, 1997 - 1st cut). His most recent collaborative work is a translation project, The Evolutionary Biology Papers of Elie Metchnikoff (Kluwer, 2000).

Dr. Tauber earned a B.S. from Tufts University in 1969 and an M.D. in 1973 from Tufts University School of Medicine. He was elected to the Tufts Board of Trustees in 2003 and currently serves as Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee. He is also a member of the Executive Committee and Honorary Degree Committee.

Last updated: December 7, 2007