Medicine, science, and Merck / P. Roy Vagelos, Louis Galambos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vagelos, P. Roy, author.

Galambos, Louis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vagelos, P. Roy.

Merck Sharp & Dohme.

Physicians--United States--Biography.

Physicians.

Medical scientists--United States--Biography.

Medical scientists.

Physician executives--United States--Biography.

Physician executives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Medicine, Science & Merck

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Medicine, Science, and Merck, the authors trace the careers of a son of Greek immigrants as he mastered three professions and ultimately became the Chief Executive Officer of America's most admired corporation - the multinational, pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co., Inc. As the authors show, there was hope even for a wise-cracking kid living through the hard times of the 1930s. Education brought out the scholar in Roy Vagelos, who left his family's small restaurant to attend the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia's Medical School, and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. At NIH, he mastered biochemistry; at Washington University he became a distinguished science administrator; and at Merck, he headed the pharmaceutical industry's most innovative laboratory and then became its CEO. Throughout, he never lost touch with his family values, his intense desire to help others, or his faith in the partnership principle and the competition that makes it work.

Contents:

1. The making of a physician

2. Hot science in big government

3. The French alternative

4. The research university, American style

5. Turning the corner at Merck

6. Crisis

7. Blockbusters

8. On-the-job training

9. Global aspirations

10. The moral corporation

11. Getting to know the Clintons

12. Partners.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

9786610437597

9781107142701

1107142709

9781280437595

1280437596

9780511165450

0511165455

9780511166150

051116615X

9780511164200

0511164203

9780511312939

0511312938

9780511511677

0511511671

9780511165009

0511165005

OCLC:

171138270