Virus Hunting Aids, Cancer, And The Human Retrovirus: A Story Of Scientific Discovery,9780465098156

Virus Hunting Aids, Cancer, And The Human Retrovirus: A Story Of Scientific Discovery

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780465098156
ISBN10: 0465098150
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-08-18
Publisher(s): Basic Books
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Summary

The renowned AIDS researcher Robert Gallo tells his story of scientific breakthrough in a riveting portrait of the people, the politics, and the pace of modern scientific discovery.

Author Biography

Robert Gallo is chief of the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and a two-time winner of the coveted Albert Lasker prize, the highest honor in U.S. biomedical research. Dr. Gallo was, as reported in Science, the most-cited author of scientific literature in the world during the 1980s.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue 1(12)
I SOME HISTORY BEHIND THE STORY
Becoming a Physician, Becoming a Scientist
13(13)
The National Institutes of Health and the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology
26(18)
Microscopic Intruders
44(15)
II THE DISCOVERY OF CANCER-CAUSING RETROVIRUSES IN HUMANS
The Story of Retroviruses and Cancer: From Poultry to People
59(23)
Success, Defeat, Success
82(17)
Discovery of a Cancer Virus: The First Human Retrovirus
99(17)
Discovery of the Second Human Retrovirus (and How the HTLVs Produce Disease)
116(11)
III THE DISCOVERY OF A THIRD HUMAN RETROVIRUS: THE AIDS VIRUS
A Single Disease with a Single Cause
127(36)
Breaking Through: ``We Know How to Work with This Kind of Virus''
163(18)
Making Progress, Making Sense: The Period of Intense Discovery
181(24)
The Blood Test Patent Suit: Rivalry and Resolution
205(14)
IV A SCIENTIST'S LOOK AT THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF AIDS
The Alarm
219(18)
How the AIDS Virus Works
237(23)
Kaposi's Sarcoma: A Special Tumor of AIDS
260(16)
About Causes of Disease (and, in Particular, Why HIV Is the Cause of AIDS)
276(22)
What We Can Do About AIDS and the AIDS Virus
298(21)
Epilogue 319(18)
Name Index 337(6)
Subject Index 343

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