Big Shot
Passion, Politics, and the Struggle for an AIDS Vaccine
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Word Count
104,000 words, Guess
Page Count
416 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebigshotpassionpo0000thom
- Internet Archivebigshotpassionpo00thom
- ISBN-101891620886
- ISBN-139781891620881
- Goodreads386074
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- LibraryThing2129126
- Library of Congress Control Number2001031959
- OCLC Control Number46975059
- Better World Books9781891620881
- Open LibraryOL8717013M
Classifications
- LCCQR189.5.A33 T48 2001
- LCCQR189.5.A33T48 2001
- LCCQR 189.5 .A33 T48 2001
Description
"When Patricia Thomas set out to chronicle the search for an AIDS vaccine, she expected to find a classic struggle between ingenious young scientists and an exceptionally wily microbe. But she was in for a surprise. She soon learned that although the scientific challenges involved in making an AIDS vaccine are immense, this alone does not explain why the world still doesn't have such a vaccine - twenty years after the pandemic began. In Big Shot, Thomas dramatizes the controversial search for a vaccine - the players, the politics, the money - in a vivid, suspenseful story that reveals how science is done, and not done, in America today."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
PAUL LUCIW WAS ALONE in his lab at Chiron Corporation in Emervville, California, on an August evening in 1984.
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