A contagious cause the American hunt for cancer viruses and the rise of molecular medicine
Is cancer a contagious disease? In the late nineteenth century this idea, and attending efforts to identify a cancer "germ," inspired fear and ignited controversy. Yet speculation that cancer might be contagious also contained a kernel of hope that the strategies used against infectious di...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "an infectious disease, a virus"
- Cancer and contagion
- Cancer as a viral disease
- Policymakers and philanthropists define the cancer problem
- The biomedical settlement and the federalization of the cancer problem
- Managing the future at the special virus leukemia program
- Administrative objects and the infrastructure of cancer virus research
- Viruses as a central front in the war on cancer
- Molecular biology's resistance to the war on cancer
- The West Coast retrovirus rush and the discovery of oncogenes
- Momentum for molecular medicine
- Conclusion: afterlife, memory, and failure in biomedical research.