So.. I’ve been meaning to post this notice for some days now, but have been sending e-mails and so let this slip. Anyhow, as I’ve said in the 200-odd emails that I’ve sent out (in large batches, not singly thank goodness) amid this furor over the coronaviruses, I just got a book about viruses out!

Leeuwenhoek’s Legatees and Beijerinck’s Beneficiaries: A History of Medical Virology in The Netherlands, Gerard van Doornum, Ton van Helvoort, and Neeraja Sankaran (Amsterdam University Press, 2020).

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I am not the primary author…it was a project that I got roped into after most of the fundamental work was done, but I was very involved in the writing of it, and I can also take credit for its alliterative title (any surprises there?) though not its beautiful cover. More information via these links.

If you are associated with any sort of institution, please do consider ordering a copy for your library.

And as if that weren’t news enough…I just got word from my editor at the University of Pittsburgh Press that my solo effort–my first historical monograph–also about viruses but with a much wider geographical scope–is now officially “in production!” The title of that one is not alliterative, but it is allusive to a famous piece of literature, but I’ll save the specifics for when the book is published. Later this year or early next.