A Tale of Two Viruses. Parallels in the Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses, by Neeraja Sankaran

What is it about?

During the ongoing pandemic the term virus become sadly popular. The book "A tale of two viruses", written by the historian of science and medicine Neeraja Sankaran, reconstructs the origin of virology as a mature scientific discipline. Interestingly,A tale of two viruses is one of the few attempts to reconstruct the history of viruses through the lens of historians too, also focussing on the contributions of philosophers, sociologists and other humanists and social scientists.

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