The Story of Taxol

Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug

AvJordan Goodman,Vivien Walsh

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

Taxol is arguably the most celebrated, talked-about and controversial natural product in recent years. It is celebrated because of its efficacy as an anti-cancer drug and because its discovery has provided powerful support for policies concerned with biodiversity; talked about because in the late 1980s and early 1990s the American public was bombarded with news reports and special programmes about the molecule and its host, the Pacific yew; and controversial because during the early 1990s the drug and the tree became embroiled in a number of very sensitive political issues with wide implications for the conduct of public policy. The Story of Taxol tells this story.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-11-23
Mått:151 x 228 x 17 mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:300
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521032506

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Medicinhistoria inom Medicin

Recensioner i media

'It is carefully researched and detailed, and as someone who was at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) during part of the development of Taxol, I found it factually accurate.' Vincent T. DeVita, Jr, New England Journal of Medicine

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Agents: 1. Cancer chemotherapy: plant knowledge and practice; Part II. Practices: 2. Act I: 1962–75; 3. Act II: 1976–83; 4. Act III: 1984–9; Part III. Controversies: 5. The politics of exclusivity and the business of taxol; 6. The political life (and death) of Taxus Brevifolia; References and bibliography; Index.