The Art and Politics of Science 9780393073560, 030906130X, 924154550X, 0393073564
In this work a Nobel prize-winning cancer biologist, leader of major scientific institutions and veteran of the American
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English Pages (xii, 315 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations Year 2010;2009
Table of contents :
Origins and beginnings --
From literature to medicine to science --
The first taste of scientific success --
Retroviruses and their replication cycle --
The RSV oncogene and its progenitor --
How proto-oncogenes participate in cancer --
Targeted therapies for human cancers --
Partnerships in science --
The road to Building One --
Being NIH director --
Priority setting --
Bad times and good times as NIH director --
Embryos, cloning, stem cells, and the promise of reprogramming --
Global science and global health --
Science publishing and science libraries in the Internet age --
A life in science --
Notes --
Glossary.
