LEADER 04417nam 22006615 450 001 9910861017103321 005 20240620210320.0 010 $a0-226-62840-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226628400 035 $a(CKB)4100000007924542 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5742037 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002150907 035 $a(DE-B1597)535601 035 $a(OCoLC)1091029280 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226628400 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007924542 100 $a20200406h20192019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA Contagious Cause $eThe American Hunt for Cancer Viruses and the Rise of Molecular Medicine /$fRobin Wolfe Scheffler 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (391 pages) 225 0 $aChicago scholarship online. 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2019. 311 $a0-226-45889-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcronyms --$tIntroduction: "An Infectious Disease-A Virus" --$tChapter 1. Cancer and Contagion --$tChapter 2. Cancer as a Viral Disease --$tChapter 3. Policymakers and Philanthropists Define the Cancer Problem --$tChapter 4. The Biomedical Settlement and the Federalization of the Cancer Problem --$tChapter 5. Managing the Future at the Special Virus Leukemia Program --$tChapter 6. Administrative Objects and the Infrastructure of Cancer Virus Research --$tChapter 7. Viruses as a Central Front in the War on Cancer --$tChapter 8. Molecular Biology's Resistance to the War on Cancer --$tChapter 9. The West Coast Retrovirus Rush and the Discovery of Oncogenes --$tChapter 10. Momentum for Molecular Medicine --$tConclusion: Afterlife, Memory, and Failure in Biomedical Research --$tTime Line --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tBibliography 330 $aIs cancer a contagious disease? In the late nineteenth century this idea, and attending efforts to identify a cancer "germ," inspired fear and ignited controversy. Yet speculation that cancer might be contagious also contained a kernel of hope that the strategies used against infectious diseases, especially vaccination, might be able to subdue this dread disease. Today, nearly one in six cancers are thought to have an infectious cause, but the path to that understanding was twisting and turbulent. ? A Contagious Cause is the first book to trace the century-long hunt for a human cancer virus in America, an effort whose scale exceeded that of the Human Genome Project. The government's campaign merged the worlds of molecular biology, public health, and military planning in the name of translating laboratory discoveries into useful medical therapies. However, its expansion into biomedical research sparked fierce conflict. Many biologists dismissed the suggestion that research should be planned and the idea of curing cancer by a vaccine or any other means as unrealistic, if not dangerous. Although the American hunt was ultimately fruitless, this effort nonetheless profoundly shaped our understanding of life at its most fundamental levels. A Contagious Cause links laboratory and legislature as has rarely been done before, creating a new chapter in the histories of science and American politics. 606 $aOncogenic viruses$xResearch$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aCancer$xEtiology$xResearch$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aVirology$xResearch$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aMolecular biology$zUnited States$xHistory 610 $abiomedicine. 610 $acancer. 610 $achronic disease. 610 $acontagion. 610 $agerm theory. 610 $ahealth policy. 610 $ainfrastructure. 610 $amolecular biology. 610 $apublic health. 610 $avirus. 615 0$aOncogenic viruses$xResearch$xHistory. 615 0$aCancer$xEtiology$xResearch$xHistory. 615 0$aVirology$xResearch$xHistory. 615 0$aMolecular biology$xHistory. 676 $a616.994019 700 $aScheffler$b Robin Wolfe$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01741716 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910861017103321 996 $aA Contagious Cause$94167875 997 $aUNINA