00715nam a22001813a 4500991003556409707536080415s 000 0 eng db13714909-39ule_instDip.to LingueitaBierce, Ambrose196349In the Midst of Life :Tales of Soldiers and Civilians /by Ambrose BierceLondon :Penguin Books Limited,1939.b1371490928-01-1415-04-08991003556409707536LE012 Fondo Commonwealth 1-4-0512012000295193le012-E0.00-no 00000.i1472524115-04-08In the Midst of Life1230535UNISALENTOle01215-04-08ma -engenk0003816nam 2200685Ia 450 991096941380332120200520144314.09780674020979067402097910.4159/9780674020979(CKB)1000000000805550(SSID)ssj0000174542(PQKBManifestationID)11172648(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000174542(PQKBWorkID)10176009(PQKB)10056818(Au-PeEL)EBL3300700(CaPaEBR)ebr10331285(OCoLC)923116712(DE-B1597)589740(DE-B1597)9780674020979(MiAaPQ)EBC3300700(OCoLC)1294423880(Perlego)1133421(EXLCZ)99100000000080555020040809d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrHow to win the Nobel Prize an unexpected life in science. /J. Michael Bishop1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.Cambridge, MA ;London Harvard University Press2004xiii, 271 p. illThe Jerusalem-Harvard lecturesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780674008809 0674008804 9780674016255 0674016254 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexIn 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.Jerusalem-Harvard lectures.Medical scientistsUnited StatesBiographyOncogenesNobel PrizesMedical scientistsOncogenes.Nobel Prizes.610.92Bishop J. Michael1936-1809745MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910969413803321How to win the Nobel Prize4360682UNINA