The Story of Taxol

Name: The Story of Taxol
Author: Jordan Goodman

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

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Gebonden, 298 blz. | Engels

Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2001

ISBN13: 9780521561235

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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.

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ISBN13:9780521561235

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:Gebonden

Aantal pagina's:298

Uitgever:Cambridge University Press

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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.

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