An Ungovernable Foe

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Natalie B. Aviles examines seventy years of federally funded scientific breakthroughs in the laboratories of the U.S. National Cancer Institute to shed new light on how bureaucratic organizations nurture innovation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Medicine, Meliorism, and the Making of a Modern NCI 2. Cancer Viruses and the Promise of a Vaccine, 1958-1968 3. Moving Targets in the War on Cancer, 1969-1979 4. Back to Basics: Human Cancer Retrovirus Research, 1980-1984 5. HIV Research and Drug Development, 1985-1989 6. Lost in Translation, 1990-2001 7. From Roadmap to Moonshot, 2002-2016 Conclusion Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography Index