Big Shot
Subtitle: Passion, Politics, and the Struggle for an AIDS Vaccine
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: September 18, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781891620881
Subjects: Preventive Medicine; Medical / Nursing; Biography & Autobiography; Vaccination; Biography/Autobiography; Research; Popular works; AIDS & HIV; Medicine; Current Events; AIDS vaccines; Medical - General; AIDS (Disease)
First sentence: PAUL LUCIW WAS ALONE in his lab at Chiron Corporation in Emervville, California, on an August evening in 1984.
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.