Tom Rivers: reflections on a life in medicine and science

an oral history memoir

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Tom Rivers: reflections on a life in medicine and science

an oral history memoir

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.

Publish Date
Publisher
M.I.T. Press
Language
English
Pages
682

Previews available in: English

Book Details


Edition Notes

Includes bibliographies.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass
Other Titles
Reflections on a life in medicine and science.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
576/.64/0924
Library of Congress
QR31.R5 A3

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 682 p.
Number of pages
682

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL5539149M
Internet Archive
tomriversreflect0000rive
LCCN
67016500
OCLC/WorldCat
1085060

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL22458307W

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