TY - BOOK AU - Varmus,Harold TI - The art and politics of science SN - 9780393061284 AV - R154.V47 .A3 2009 U1 - 610.92 VAR 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton KW - Varmus, Harold. KW - National Institutes of Health (U.S.) KW - Medical scientists KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Nobel Prize winners KW - Science KW - Personal Narratives KW - Health Policy KW - Neoplasms KW - therapy N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-290) and index; Origins and beginnings -- From literature to medicine to science -- The first taste of scientific success -- Retroviruses and their replication cycle -- The RSV oncogene and its progenitor -- How proto-oncogenes participate in cancer -- Targeted therapies for human cancers -- Partnerships in science -- The road to Building One -- Being NIH director -- Priority setting -- Bad times and good times as NIH director -- Embryos, cloning, stem cells, and the promise of reprogramming -- Global science and global health -- Science publishing and science libraries in the Internet age ER -