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Most bacteriologists were trained as medical men—Burnet himself had been, before going into bacteriological research—and their interest in general biological problems was very limited. They cared about curing and preventing diseases, which was well and good; less so about pondering infection as a biological phenomenon, a relationship between creatures, equal in fundamental importance to such other relationships as predation, competition, and decomposition.
David Quammen
Most bacteriologists were trained as medical men—Burnet himself had been, before going into bacteriological research—and their interest in general biological problems was very limited. They cared about curing and preventing diseases, which was well and good; less so about pondering infection as a biological phenomenon, a relationship between creatures, equal in fundamental importance to such other relationships as predation, competition, and decomposition.
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A collection of Quammen's drafts, research, and correspondence is housed in Texas Tech University's Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library. The collection consists of approximately 63 boxes of publicly available literary production, artifacts, maps, and other papers dated from 1856–2014.