 Anti-foreign imagery in immunology provides an excellent case study of bidirectional links between science and society (Tauber 1994, 2016; Howes 1999). The wide acceptance of the self-nonself discrimination model derived from the paradigmatic host-pathogen struggle that exemplified the nineteenth century conceptualization of the body as isolated from the environment. As developed by Claude Bernard, this insular construct provided biology a theoretical foundation for organismal biology that complemented Malthusian economics, liberal political philosophy, and Comtian sociology to instantiate the autonomous body as a political, social, economic and medical entity (Foucault 1963 [1973]; Agamben 1998). Notwithstanding that “independence” is a political term, Bernard’s notion of autonomy fails to fairly represent the dialectical relationships of the organism and its environment (Levins and Lewontin 1985), nor the evolutionary peculiarities of individuality itself (Buss 1987).