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Medal winners : how the Vietnam War launched Nobel careers /
"As the ground war in Vietnam escalated in the late 1960s, the US government leveraged the so-called doctor draft to secure adequate numbers of medical personnel in the armed forces. Among newly minted physicians' few alternatives to military service was the Clinical Associate Training Pro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
The University of Texas Press,
2020.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Annus horribilis : 1968 and America's conflict on two fronts
- Best in class : Goldstein, Varmus, Brown, Lefkowitz
- "My son, the doctor" : higher education in the era of quotas
- Yellow berets : the Vietnam "doctor draft" and NIH's clinical associate training program
- Campus life : learning science and serving the nation
- NIH's finest hour : Nirenberg cracks the genetic code
- Beginning at termination : Marshall Nirenberg and Joseph Goldstein
- Following the right path : Earl Stadtman
- In Earl's court : Earl Stadtman and Michael Brown
- Harmony in hormones : Ira Pastan and Jesse Roth
- Priest and prophet : Jesse Roth, Ira Pastan, and Robert Lefkowitz
- Overcoming repression : Ira Pastan and Harold Varmus
- The Texas two-step : Goldstein and Brown
- Adrenaline rush : Lefkowitz and the serpentine journey
- Infectious enthusiasm : Varmus and Bishop learn fowl lessons
- Epilogue.