Contributions

  • Benison, Saul. - Contributor

Publication

1967 - M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

170,500 words, Guess

Page Count

682 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC576/.64/0924
  • LCCQR31.R5 A3

Alternate Titles

  • Reflections on a life in medicine and science.

Description

In the last few months of his life, an eminent pioneer in the field of virology looks back over his eventful career and through the medium of oral history leaves behind him an authoritative account of the genesis of this important branch of science. The book is a record, edited only for reading convenience, of a series of tape-recorded interviews of the late Dr. Thomas M. Rivers of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. The interviewer, Saul Benison, is a historian of medicine and science who equipped himself for the task through extensive research in hitherto unused primary source materials. What merges is an autobiography presented in Dr. Rivers' conversational style, reflecting his colorful personality, and spanning a long and eventful period of biomedical investigation.

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