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What is The Art and Politics of Science about?
A Nobel Prize-winning cancer biologist, leader of major scientific institutions, and veteran of science policy wars reflects on his remarkable career. Jeffrey Sachs has called Harold Varmus a global scientist-statesman who bridges science and society to solve the weightiest global challenges. But as readers will learn in this engaging memoir chronicling one mans series of remarkable careers, as well as some of the central health-policy issues of our time, Varmus didnt decide that he was drawn to medicine until he was one year into a PhD in English literature! Changing course in characteristically adventurous fashion, Varmus dove headfirst into medical school, shifted shortly after graduating from practice to research, and soon found himself at the forefront of cancer research at the University of California, San Francisco, on his way toward a Nobel Prize in Medicine. In 1993, Varmus transformed from an academic scientist to a political one when President Clinton asked him to direct the National Institutes of Health. After six years at the NIH, he took the reins as president of the world-renowned Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, a position he still holds. Along the way, Varmu
Who reads The Art and Politics of Science?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Varmus, Harold
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393061284
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Medical, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.74 / 5 (77 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14