Welcome to the course guide for Biology 662 - Virology!

This guide is designed to assist you in the processes of research - accessing resources and tutorials, search strategies and tools, and appropriate evaluation, writing and citation style.  If you need any conversation or further assistance along the way - please do not hesitate to contact your librarians at the reference desk of Ablah Library 978-3584, Nathan Filbert (contact info at left), or through Blackboard Ask-Your-Librarian!  Dig in, keep at it, discover, learn and enjoy!

If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it?

Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering and controlling the world. Everything was subject to science, but science itself largely escaped scrutiny. This situation has changed dramatically in recent years. Historians, sociologists, philosophers and sometimes scientists themselves have begun to ask fundamental questions about how the institution of science is structured and how it knows what it knows. David Cayley talks to some of the leading lights of this new field of study.

How To Think About Science, Part 1 - 24