The Art and Politics of Science [Inscribed and Signed]

Harold Varmus

ISBN 10: 0393061280 / ISBN 13: 9780393061284

Published by W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2009

About this Item

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's two-toned boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price; xii,[2],315pp.; four leaves of halftone photographs printed on rectos and versos. Light shelf wear and a few faint surface scratches to dust jacket, textblock very lightly toned, else a Very Good or better copy. Memoirs of the 1989 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his research in the origins of retroviral oncogenes. Varmus also served as the Director of the National Institute of Health under President Clinton as well as the director of the National Cancer Institute under President Obama.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Art and Politics of Science [Inscribed and Signed]
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393061280
• ISBN 13: 9780393061284
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medicine
  • Signed
  • Science & Technology

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Synopsis

In "The Art and Politics of Science" a Nobel prize-winning cancer biologist, leader of major scientific institutions and veteran of the American science policy wars reflects on his remarkable career. A year into his graduate studies in literature at Harvard University, Harold Varmus discovered he was drawn instead to medicine and eventually found himself at the forefront of cancer research at the University of California, San Francisco. In this warm, engaging memoir, Varmus considers a remarkable life's work and also shares his perspective from the trenches of politicised battlegrounds ranging from budget fights to stem-cell research, global health to science publishing. Beyond evidence of Varmus' penetrating intellect, self-deprecating humour and the deep joy he takes in science, "The Art and Politics of Science" offers a stimulating reminder to people in all walks of life about the fascinating-and central-role of science in our world.

About the Author

* Nobel prize-winning HAROLD VARMUS is the president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the former director of the National Institutes of Health.