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Big shot : passion, politics, and the struggle for an AIDS vaccine

Title: Big shot : passion, politics, and the struggle for an AIDS vaccine / Patricia Thomas.
Author: Thomas, Patricia.
Publication: New York : Public Affairs, [2001], ©2001.

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xi, 515 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"When Patricia Thomas set out to chronicle the search for an AIDS vaccine, she expected to find a classic struggle between ingenious young scientists and an exceptionally wily microbe. But she was in for a surprise. She soon learned that although the scientific challenges involved in making an AIDS vaccine are immense, this alone does not explain why the world still doesn't have such a vaccine - twenty years after the pandemic began.
In Big Shot, Thomas dramatizes the controversial search for a vaccine - the players, the politics, the money - in a vivid, suspenseful story that reveals how science is done, and not done, in America today."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [480]-495) and index.

Contents

I. The Age of Discovery: April 1984-March 1994. 1. Whistling Past the Graveyard. 2. Are We Not Men? We Are Genentech. 3. Naked Came the DNA. 4. Where the Live Things Are. 5. Trouble in the Ivory Tower. 6. Soldiers at War -- II. The Watershed: April-June 1994. 7. Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained. 8. May Is the Cruelest Month. 9. Death in the Afternoon -- III. Going to Trial: July 1994-August 2000. 10. The Big Chill. 11. The Virus Must Be Laughing at Us. 12. The Next Generation. 13. The Catbird Seat.

ISBN

1891620886

LCCN

2001031959

OCLC

ocm46975059
SCSB-4212687

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Columbia University Libraries