Recurring Revolutions in Virology

Technological Revolutions

In skill-biased (de-skilling) technological revolutions learning investments required by new machines are greater (smaller) than those required by preexisting machines. Skill-biased (de-skilling) revolutions trigger reallocations of capital from slow(fast-) to fast(slow-) learning workers, thereby reducing the relative and absolute wages of the former. The model of skill-biased (de-skilling) re...

Virology

This volume of the Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology contains a wealth of information on the neural control of movement. Overall, the approach of the authors is to stress basic experimental data. Therefore, the book will be an excellent reference source for basic scientists as well as clinicians. The first chapters of the book examine the role of muscle in movement. These chapters discuss rec...

Virology.

Philosophical Revolutions

Pioneers in Virology.

Walter Reed (1851-1902) Imperial Bacteriology Institute c o r r e c t l y d e m o n s t r a t e d t h a t the etiological agent of rabies was not a protozoan, but a filterable virus a n d t h e a r g u m e n t a b o u t t h e s ignif icance of Negri ’s bodies became wider and more intense, w i t h e m i n e n t p a r a s i t o l o g i s t s taking conflicting positions. For many years, document...