Gerard Doornum, Ton Helvoort, Neeraja Sankaran

Leeuwenhoek's Legatees and Beijerinck's Beneficiaries

A History of Medical Virology in The Netherlands

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a tour of the history of medical virology in the Netherlands from the nineteenth century to the new millennium.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 705g
• ISBN-13: 9789463720113
• ISBN-10: 9463720111
• Artikelnr.: 58702872

Autorenporträt

Gerard van Doornum is professor emeritus of Clinical Virology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Ton van Helvoort studied at the University of Nijmegen. His 1993 thesis (Maastricht) is entitled Research styles in virus studies in the twentieth century. As an independent historian of science, he specializes in chemistry and medicine. Neeraja Sankaran trained as microbiologist and science writer before obtaining her PhD in the history of science and medicine at Yale University with the thesis Macfarlane Burnet and the nature of the bacteriophages, 1924-1937. She currently works as independent scholar and a freelance science writer and editor.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Preface
Chapter 1
Origins in the dark: Virus diseases in the Netherlands before the discovery of viruses
Chapter 2
Redefining viruses: the development and reception of the virus concept in the Netherlands
Chapter 3
On the fringes: The Dutch work on viruses
1900-1950
Chapter 4
From cell culture to the molecular revolution: the rise of medical virology and its organization
Chapter 5
Medical virology in the Netherlands after 1950. Laboratorries and institutes.
Chapter 6
Techniques and instruments: their introduction in The Netherlands and Dutch main contributions
Chapter 7
Dutch virology in the tropics: From colonial to international virology
Chapter 8
From cancer mice in the roaring twenties to oncogenes and signalling molecules in the booming nineties
Chapter 9
Virus vaccines and immunisation programmes
Chapter 10
Conclusions
List of institutes and laboratories
References
Index of Names
Index of subjects