Leeuwenhoek's Legatees and Beijerinck's Beneficiaries: A History of Medical Virology in the Netherlands

by Gerard van Doornum, Ton van Helvoort, Neeraja Sankaran

Leeuwenhoek's Legatees and Beijerinck's Beneficiaries: A History of Medical Virology in The Netherlands offers a tour of the history of Dutch medical virology. Beginning with the discovery of the first virus by Martinus Beijerinck in 1898, the authors investigate the reception and redefinition of his concept in medical circles and its implications for medical practice. The relatively slow progress of these areas in the first half of the twentieth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9463720111
• ISBN13: 9789463720113
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 360 Pages