The Art And Politics Of Science Varmus Harold by Varmus, Harold 9780309061308, 9780393073560, 9789241545501, 030906130X, 0393073564, 924154550X instant download after payment.

In this work a Nobel prize-winning cancer biologist, leader of major scientific institutions and veteran of the American science policy wars reflects on his career.;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 -- A life in science -- Notes -- Glossary.