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Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine » (Reprint)

Authors: Jon Cohen
ISBN-13: 9780393322255, ISBN-10: 0393322254
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: December 2001
Edition: Reprint

Jon Cohen is a journalist and covers science and medicine for Science magazine. He lives in Cardiff, California.

"[A]n important book not only for the now but for the future of this epidemic and those to come."—Dr. Robert Gallo

[Cohen's] intimate knowledge of the thinking and personalities of the major players,... uniquely captures the real drama of science.

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Prologue	xv
Chapter 1	Fast Predictions	3
Chapter 2	The Next Breakthrough	16
Chapter 3	Empiricists Versus Reductionists	43
Chapter 4	Moving into Humans	64
Chapter 5	Animal Illogic	78
Chapter 6	Market Forces	102
Chapter 7	Unwanted: Dead or Alive	119
Chapter 8	All MicroGeneSys's Men	139
Chapter 9	A Manhattan Project for AIDS	175
Chapter 10	The Dairymaids of AIDS	200
Chapter 11	Perpetual Uncertainty	227
Chapter 12	New World Order	258
Chapter 13	Running in Place	295
Chapter 14	Better Ways	317
Chapter 15	Disparate Measures	333
	Epilogue	358
	Postscript: Breaking the Silence	361
	Notes	370
	Glossary	419
	Acronyms	428
	Index	430