书目名称 | Quest for the Killers | 编辑 | June Goodfield | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | The five stories in this book are tales about human beings and the human condition in which they find themselves. They are stories of scientists - but not of white-coated laboratory figures, happy to leave to others the practical application of their discoveries. In the circumstances I recount, the scientists were brought face to face, sometimes in dramatic confrontations, with the very people whose problems their work might help solve. As I came to realize, there now exists an international network of unusual scientists whose members are concerned individuals, deter mined that their scientific work should help alleviate the human condition. This book was conceived as an account of some exciting epi sodes in contemporary biomedicine. But during the four years it took to complete, several other themes emerged. First, each story illustrates aspects of the relation between Western science and technology and those major health problems which are often of dreadful significance for the Third World. In this relation the fruits of Western research are not simply applied to global health problems. Rather the relation is reciprocal, for scientific research, whether prompted by the medical | 出版日期 | Book 1985 | 关键词 | cancer; diseases; health; vaccine; virus; infectious diseases | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6743-7 | isbn_softcover | 978-0-8176-3313-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4684-6743-7 | copyright | June Goodfield 1985 |
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