The cure
Subtitle: a story of cancer and politics from the annals of the Cold War
By: Nikolai Krementsov.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Kli︠u︡eva, Nina Georgievna; Roskin, Grigoriĭ Iosifovich, -- 1892-1964; Cancer -- Immunotherapy -- Research -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century; Antineoplastic antibiotics -- Research -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century; Cold War
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Act I. Discovery; title: Roskin: A Man and His Microscope; title: A Discovery; title: A Scientist at Work; title: Act II. Innovation; title: Kliueva: Making of a Bacteriologist; title: Research and Development; title: Boy Meets Girl; title: Act III. War; title: Retreat; title: The War and Soviet Medicine; title: Revival; title: Veber's Ploy; title: Act IV. Politics; title: The American Ambassador; title: KR Comes to the New World; title: Between Worlds; title: Act V. Ideology; title: The Cold War; title: The Honor Court; title: The Trial; title: The KR Affair; title: Act VI. Culture; title: On Stage: Alien Shadow; title: On Screen: The Court of Honor; title: Fiction and Reality; title: Act VII. Ambitions; title: Building the Lab; title: Turf Wars; title: Competitive Exclusion; title: Act VIII. Ideas; title: KR on Trial; title: Between Bench and Bedside; title: "Trypanosa" and "Cruzin"; title: Epilogue; title: List of Abbreviations; title: Notes; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index.