The story of taxol : nature and politics in the pursuit of an anti-cancer drug
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The story of taxol : nature and politics in the pursuit of an anti-cancer drug
Cambridge University Press, 2001
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Bibliography: p. [251]-279
Includes index
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Taxol is arguably the most celebrated, talked-about and controversial natural product in recent years. It is celebrated because of its efficacy as an anti-cancer drug and because its discovery has provided powerful support for policies concerned with biodiversity; talked about because in the late 1980s and early 1990s the American public was bombarded with news reports and special programmes about the molecule and its host, the Pacific yew; and controversial because during the early 1990s the drug and the tree became embroiled in a number of very sensitive political issues with wide implications for the conduct of public policy. The Story of Taxol tells this story.
目次
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I. Agents: 1. Cancer chemotherapy: plant knowledge and practice
- Part II. Practices: 2. Act I: 1962-75
- 3. Act II: 1976-83
- 4. Act III: 1984-9
- Part III. Controversies: 5. The politics of exclusivity and the business of taxol
- 6. The political life (and death) of Taxus Brevifolia
- References and bibliography
- Index.
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