Research Styles in Virus Studies in the Twentieth Century: Controversies and the Formation of Consensus

摘要

Contents: Research styles in virus studies in the twentieth century -- controversies and the formation of consensus: an introduction; What is a virus: the case of tobacco mosaic disease; A bacteriological paradigm in influenza research in the first half of the twentieth century; Bacteriological and physiological research styles in the early controversy on the nature of the bacteriophage phenomenon; The controversy between John H. Northrop and Max Delbruck on the formation of bacteriophage: bacterial synthesis or autonomous multiplication; The construction of bacteriophage as bacterial virus: linking endogenous and exogenous thought styles; Controversies and the formation of consensus: conceptual continuity through discontinuity.