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- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Inscribed
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Jeffrey Sachs has called Harold Varmus a global scientist-statesman who bridges science and society to solve the weightiest global challenges. But as readers will learn in this engaging memoir chronicling one man's series of remarkable careers, as well as some of the central health-policy issues of our time, Varmus didn't decide that he was drawn to medicine until he was one year into a PhD in English literature! Changing course in characteristically adventurous fashion, Varmus dove headfirst into medical school, shifted shortly after graduating from practice to research, and soon found himself at the forefront of cancer research at the University of California, San Francisco, on his way toward a Nobel Prize in Medicine. In 1993, Varmus transformed from an academic scientist to a political one when President Clinton asked him to direct the National Institutes of Health. After six years at the NIH, he took the reins as president of the world-renowned Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, a position he still holds. Along the way, Varmus has continued his own laboratory work, remains committed to collaborative science, and still finds time to ride his bike to work. Beyond the elegant combination of science and biography, this is a book about health issues of truly global importance. Varmus's work on cancer-causing genes foreshadowed the development of the recent targeted therapies for cancer. At the NIH, he not only persuaded Congress to commit record funds to national health programs but also turned attention to international concerns like the worldwide malaria crisis. And, as he discusses in these pages, he has long been an enthusiastic yet nuanced supporter of stem cell research. The Art and Politics of Science is a glimpse into the world of high-stakes, big-budget science narrated by a man intimately acquainted with its everyday applications-an education for people in all walks of life from a scientist whose own research and professional commitments helped to shape our scientific age.
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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393061280
ISBN-13
9780393061284
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66580846
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Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
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Yes
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Hardcover
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1.3 in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
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Trade
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22
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[A] unique work by a remarkable global leader: a brilliant scientist with the sensibilities of an artist and the leadership skills of a consummate politician. Harold Varmus has done it all' Nobel Prize winning breakthroughs in cancer biology, masterful leadership of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) during its period of greatest expansion, statesmanship of the highest order in global health, and cheerful trench warfare to bring biomedical publications to the open-source Internet age. [This] book is captivating, fascinating, and ever instructive. It will be read the world over with enormous delight and benefit. (Jeffrey D. Sachs, director, The Earth Institute), Any time any one of us has a cancer scare, or worse, we can be grateful to Harold Varmus and his extraordinary life in science. We are all lucky that Dr. Varmus left literature for medicine. And now, reading this book, we can be grateful that he is so very gifted in both. (Jonathan Weiner, author of The Beak of the Finch ), "[A] perceptive book about science and its civic value, arriving as the White House renews its acquaintance with empiricism. Varmus recounts his laboratory career and tenure as director of the National Institutes of Health, then surveys topical issues like stem-cell research. One implication of this book is that far from disconnecting politics and science, we should find better ways of linking them.", Varmus offers a plain-spoken and fascinating story of his path from graduate student in English literature to the forefront of biomedical research. His journey to the highest echelons of the scientific establishment is as interesting for its incidental details as for its glimpse into the process of modern biomedical science., Through an artful melding of science and policy, Harold Varmus conveys not only the excitement of forefront research but also the richly textured human dramas that swirl around pivotal discoveries. (Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe ), An engaging read, fascinating as a memoir of Varmus "s personal and scientific journeys, revealing in its account of his stewardship of the NIH. The book is like the man 'honest and clear-eyed, thoughtful and outspoken, always good company, with more than a frequent touch of humour and self-deprecation.
Publication Date
2009-02-02
Lccn
2008-042963
Dewey Decimal
610.92 B
Lc Classification Number
R154.V47.A3 2009
Copyright Date
2009
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