The Art and Politics of Science
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A Nobel Prize-winning cancer biologist, leader of major scientific institutions, and veteran of science policy wars reflects on his remarkable career. The New York Times - Peter Dizikes [Varmus] has…written 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.
Introduction 1Pt. 1 Becoming a ScientistCh. 1 Origins and Beginnings 9Ch. 2 From Literature to Medicine to Science 25Ch. 3 The First Taste of Scientific Success 36Pt. 2 Doing ScienceCh. 4 Retroviruses and Their Replication Cycle 51Ch. 5 The RSV Oncogene and Its Progenitor 68Ch. 6 How Proto-Oncogenes Participate in Cancer 89Ch. 7 Targeted Therapies for Human Cancers 102Ch. 8 Partnerships in Science 113Pt. 3 A Political ScientistCh. 9 The Road to Building One 123Ch. 10 Being NIH Director 140Ch. 11 Priority Setting 162Ch. 12 Bad Times and Good Times as NIH Director 176Pt. 4 Continuing ControversiesCh. 13 Embryos, Cloning, Stem Cells, and the Promise of Reprogramming 197Ch. 14 Global Science and Global Health 224Ch. 15 Science Publishing and Science Libraries in the Internet Age 242Epilogue: A Life in Science 270Notes 274Glossary 291References 296Acknowledgments 297Illustration Credits 301Index 303
