1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990007892210403321

Autore

Ritzer, George <1940- >

Titolo

L'era dell'iperconsumo : McDonaldizzazione, carte di credito, luoghi del consumo e altri temi / George Ritzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : FrancoAngeli, 2003

ISBN

88-464-4967-3

Descrizione fisica

318 p. ; 23 cm

Collana

Impresa, comunicazione, mercato

Disciplina

306.3

Locazione

FSPBC

SES

DECGE

Collocazione

Collez. 1397 (40)

17500 RIT/03

040.004.RIT

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778455503321

Autore

Bishop J. Michael <1936->

Titolo

How to win the Nobel Prize [[electronic resource] ] : an unexpected life in science. / / J. Michael Bishop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-674-02097-9

Edizione

[1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 271 p. : ill

Collana

The Jerusalem-Harvard lectures

Disciplina

610.92

Soggetti

Medical scientists - United States

Oncogenes

Nobel Prizes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. The Phone Call -- 2. Accidental Scientist -- 3. People and Pestilence -- 4. Opening the Black Box of Cancer -- 5. Paradoxical Strife -- Notes -- Credits -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1989 Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery that normal genes under certain conditions can cause cancer. In this book, Bishop tells us how he and Varmus made their momentous discovery. More than a lively account of the making of a brilliant scientist, How to Win the Nobel Prize is also a broader narrative combining two major and intertwined strands of medical history: the long and ongoing struggles to control infectious diseases and to find and attack the causes of cancer. Alongside his own story, that of a youthful humanist evolving into an ambivalent medical student, an accidental microbiologist, and finally a world-class researcher, Bishop gives us a fast-paced and engrossing tale of the microbe hunters. It is a narrative enlivened by vivid anecdotes about our deadliest microbial enemies--the Black Death, cholera, syphilis, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, HIV--and by biographical sketches of the scientists who led the fight against these scourges. Bishop then provides an introduction for nonscientists to the molecular underpinnings of cancer and concludes with an analysis of many of



today's most important science-related controversies--ranging from stem cell research to the attack on evolution to scientific misconduct. How to Win the Nobel Prize affords us the pleasure of hearing about science from a brilliant practitioner who is a humanist at heart. Bishop's perspective will be valued by anyone interested in biomedical research and in the past, present, and future of the battle against cancer.