The art and politics of science / Harold Varmus.
By: Varmus, Harold.
Material type: BookPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2009Edition: 1st ed.Description: xii, 315 pages., [8] p. of plates : illustration. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780393304534.Subject(s): Varmus, Harold | Medical scientists -- United States -- Biography | Nobel Prize winners -- United States -- Biography | Science -- United States -- Personal Narratives | Health Policy -- United States -- Personal Narratives | Neoplasms -- therapy -- United States -- Personal NarrativesDDC classification: 610.92 V316A 2009 | BItem type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | Information Technology University, Lahore General Stacks | Non-fiction | 610.92 V316A 2009 (Browse shelf) | Available | 006077 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-290) and index.
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.
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