Natural obsessions : the search for the oncogene /
Angier, Natalie.
Natural obsessions : the search for the oncogene / Natalie Angier - Boston, Massachusetts : Houghton Mifflin Company, c1988 - xiii, 377 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
1. The optimist -- 2. The family -- 3. The blackest magic -- 4. Pyrrhic victories -- 5. No reason to stay in science -- 6. Cooperation and collapse -- 7. Desert days -- 8. Down the garden pathway -- 9. Something borrowed, something blue -- 10. The alternate pathway.
This is a book about the way biomedical science is done these days, based on close scrutiny of a scientific community by a young observer who came in from outside and settled down to watch and listen, living within the community almost like an anthropologist attached to a remote.
395453704
ONCOGENES -- RESEARCH
RC 268.42 .A54 1988
Natural obsessions : the search for the oncogene / Natalie Angier - Boston, Massachusetts : Houghton Mifflin Company, c1988 - xiii, 377 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
1. The optimist -- 2. The family -- 3. The blackest magic -- 4. Pyrrhic victories -- 5. No reason to stay in science -- 6. Cooperation and collapse -- 7. Desert days -- 8. Down the garden pathway -- 9. Something borrowed, something blue -- 10. The alternate pathway.
This is a book about the way biomedical science is done these days, based on close scrutiny of a scientific community by a young observer who came in from outside and settled down to watch and listen, living within the community almost like an anthropologist attached to a remote.
395453704
ONCOGENES -- RESEARCH
RC 268.42 .A54 1988