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An ungovernable foe : science and policy innovation in the U.S. National Cancer Institute / Natalie B. Aviles.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aviles, Natalie B., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Cancer Institute (U.S.).
- Cancer.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- National Cancer Institute (U.S.).
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (358 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- Natalie B. Aviles examines seventy years of federally funded scientific breakthroughs in the laboratories of the U.S. National Cancer Institute to shed new light on how bureaucratic organizations nurture innovation.
- Contents:
- Medicine, Meliorism, and the Making of a Modern NCI
- Cancer Viruses and the Promise of a Vaccine, 1958-1968
- Moving Targets in the War on Cancer, 1969-1979
- Back to Basics : Human Cancer Retrovirus Research, 1980-1984
- HIV Research and Drug Development, 1985-1989
- Lost in Translation, 1990-2001
- From Roadmap to Moonshot, 2002-2016.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-231-55177-0
- OCLC:
- 1412622815
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