Shots in the Dark The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine

Name: Shots in the Dark The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine
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ISBN: 9780393322255

ISBN-10: 0393322254

ISBN-13: 9780393322255

Edition: 2002 (Reprint)

Authors: Jon Cohen

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In 1984 it was announced that an AIDS vaccine would be ready for testing in two years. More than 15 years later only one vaccine has made it to a field trial. This text explains the reasons for this slow progress.

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/17/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 466
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

He is a journalist & covers science & medicine for Science magazine. He lives in Cardiff, California.



Acknowledgments


Prologue



Fast Predictions



The Next Breakthrough



Empiricists Versus Reductionists



Moving into Humans



Animal Illogic



Market Forces



Unwanted: Dead or Alive



All MicroGeneSys's Men



A Manhattan Project for AIDS



The Dairymaids of AIDS



Perpetual Uncertainty



New World Order



Running in Place



Better Ways



Disparate Measures


Epilogue


Postscript: Breaking the Silence


Notes


Glossary


Acronyms


Index