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

Name: Story of Taxol Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug
Price: 39.58 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780521032506

ISBN-10: 0521032504

ISBN-13: 9780521032506

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jordan Goodman, Vivien Walsh

List price: $47.99

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $39.58

Marketplace

2 new & used from $45.00

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

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.

Book details

List price: $47.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/23/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Introduction



Agents



Cancer chemotherapy: plant knowledge and practice



Practices



Act I: 1962-1975



Act II: 1976-1983



Act III: 1984-1989



Controversies



The politics of exclusivity and the business of taxol



The political life (and death) of Taxus Brevifolia


References and bibliography


Index