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.

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ONCOGENES -- RESEARCH

RC 268.42 .A54 1988