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- catalog abstract ""In 1989 Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery that normal genes under certain conditions can cause cancer. In this book, Bishop tells us how he and Varmus made their momentous discovery. More than a lively account of the making of a brilliant scientist, [this book] is also a broader narrative combining two major and intertwined strands of medical history: the long and ongoing struggles to control infectious diseases and to find and attack the causes of cancer. Alongside his own story, that of a youthful humanist evolving into an ambivalent medical student, an accidental microbiologist, and finally a world-class researcher, Bishop gives us a fast-paced and engrossing tale of the microbe hunters. It is a narrative enlivened by vivid anecdotes about our deadliest microbial enemies - the Black Death, cholera, syphilis, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, HIV - and by biographical sketches of the scientists who led the fight against these scourges. Bishop then provides an introduction for nonscientists to the molecular underpinnings of cancer and concludes with an analysis of many of today's most important science-related controversies - ranging from stem cell research to the attack on evolution to scientific misconduct"--Bookjacket.".
- catalog contributor b12706241.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""In 1989 Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery that normal genes under certain conditions can cause cancer. In this book, Bishop tells us how he and Varmus made their momentous discovery. More than a lively account of the making of a brilliant scientist, [this book] is also a broader narrative combining two major and intertwined strands of medical history: the long and ongoing struggles to control infectious diseases and to find and attack the causes of cancer. Alongside his own story, that of a youthful humanist evolving into an ambivalent medical student, an accidental microbiologist, and finally a world-class researcher, Bishop gives us a fast-paced and engrossing tale of the microbe hunters. It is a narrative enlivened by vivid anecdotes about our deadliest microbial enemies - the Black Death, cholera, syphilis, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, HIV - and by biographical sketches of the scientists who led the fight against these scourges. Bishop then provides an introduction for nonscientists to the molecular underpinnings of cancer and concludes with an analysis of many of today's most important science-related controversies - ranging from stem cell research to the attack on evolution to scientific misconduct"--Bookjacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-255) and index.".
- catalog description "The phone call -- Accidental scientist -- People and pestilence -- Opening the black box of cancer -- Paradoxical strife.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 271 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "How to win the Nobel Prize.".
- catalog identifier "0674008804 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "How to win the Nobel Prize.".
- catalog isPartOf "Jerusalem-Harvard lectures.".
- catalog isPartOf "The Jerusalem-Harvard lectures".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "How to win the Nobel Prize.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "2003 I-497".
- catalog subject "610/.92 B 21".
- catalog subject "Bishop, J. Michael, 1936-".
- catalog subject "Medical scientists United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Microbiology United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Microbiology".
- catalog subject "Nobel Prize United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Nobel Prize".
- catalog subject "Nobel Prizes.".
- catalog subject "Oncogenes United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Oncogenes".
- catalog subject "Oncogenes.".
- catalog subject "RC268.42 .B57 2003".
- catalog subject "WZ 100 B6223 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "The phone call -- Accidental scientist -- People and pestilence -- Opening the black box of cancer -- Paradoxical strife.".
- catalog title "How to win the Nobel Prize : an unexpected life in science / J. Michael Bishop.".
- catalog type "Biography".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".