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The art and politics of science / Harold Varmus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Varmus, Harold
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical scientists--United States--Biography.
- Medical scientists.
- Nobel Prize winners--United States--Biography.
- Nobel Prize winners.
- Science--United States--Personal Narratives.
- Health Policy--United States--Personal Narratives.
- Neoplasms--therapy--United States--Personal Narratives.
- National Institutes of Health (U.S.).
- Varmus, Harold.
- Medical Subjects:
- Science--United States--Personal Narratives.
- Health Policy--United States--Personal Narratives.
- Neoplasms--therapy--United States--Personal Narratives.
- National Institutes of Health (U.S.).
- Varmus, Harold.
- Place of Publication:
- New York W.W. Norton
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 0-393-06128-0
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