Virus hunting : AIDS, cancer, and the human retrovirus : a story of scientific discovery
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Virus hunting : AIDS, cancer, and the human retrovirus : a story of scientific discovery
Basic Books, c1991
Available at 6 libraries
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"A New republic book."
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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..
Table of Contents
Some History Behind The Story Becoming a Physician, Becoming a Scientist The National Institutes of Health and the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology Microscopic Intruders * The Discovery Of Cancer-Causing Retroviruses In Humans The Story of Retroviruses and Cancer: From Poultry to People Success, Defeat, Success Discovery of a Cancer Virus: The First Human Retrovirus Discovery of the Second Human Retrovirus (and How the HTLVs Produce Disease) * The Discovery Of A Third Human Retrovirus: The AIDS Virus A Single Disease with a Single Cause Breaking Through: We Know How to Work with This Kind of Virus. Making Progress, Making Sense: The Period of Intense Discovery The Blood Test Patent Suit: Rivalry and Resolution * A Scientists Look At The Science And Politics Of AIDS The Alarm How the AIDS Virus Works Kaposis Sarcoma: A Special Tumor of AIDS About Causes of Disease (and, in Particular, Why HIV Is the Cause of AIDS) What We Can Do About AIDS and the AIDS Virus Epilogue
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