Tom Rivers: reflections on a life in medicine and science; an oral history memoir, prepared by Saul Benison.
Published by Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1967
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worn dust-jacket chipped at top of spine and worn along edges, cover price $17.50, very good red cloth. INSCRIBED in very small letters on front endpaper to a well-known US historian, with warm regards, and SIGNED by editor Saul Benison, 29 Sept 1967. RIVERS, THOMAS M. Tom Rivers: reflections on a life in medicine and science; an oral history memoir, prepared by Saul Benison. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1967, xxi, 682pp., . 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. - CONTENTS: Beginnings -- Young physician -- Rockefeller institute for medical research- 1922 -- Virology and virologists- 1926 -- Process of virus research- 1930 -- Rockefeller institute hospital- 1937 -- National foundation for infantile paralysis: early research programs- part I -- National foundation for infantile paralysis: early research programs- part II -- NAMRU 2- a virologist at war -- Public health research institute of New York -- Some aspects of poliomyelitis research- 1946-1948 -- Active and passive immunization against poliomyelitis- 1949-1953 -- Prelude to the salk vaccine -- Salk vaccine and sabin vaccine- 1954-1958 -- Early days of retirement.…
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- Tom Rivers: reflections on a life in medicine and science; an oral history memoir, prepared by Saul Benison.
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- Rivers, Thomas M., 1888-1962
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- Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1967
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