Cold War Triangle : How Scientists in East and West Tamed HIV /

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The extraordinary story of scientists in East and West combatting HIV. A small group of scientists were doggedly working in the field of antiviral treatments when the AIDS epidemic struck. Faced with one of the grand challenges of modern biology of the twentieth century, scientists worked across the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Loeckx, Renilde (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017.
Leuven, Belgium : Lipsius Leuven, [2017]
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) > Research > Political aspects.
HIV infections > Research > Political aspects.
AIDS (Disease) > International cooperation.
HIV infections > International cooperation.
International cooperation.
AIDS Vaccines > history
Anti-Retroviral Agents > history
Biomedical Research > history
Epidemics > prevention & control
International Cooperation
History, 20th Century
Sida > Recherche > Aspect politique.
Infections à VIH > Recherche > Aspect politique.
Sida > Coopération internationale.
Infections à VIH > Coopération internationale.
Coopération internationale.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
History of medicine
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • I. Leuven : a hotbed for antiviral research
  • II. Behind the Iron Curtain
  • III. Strange bedfellows : a Czech chemist and a Flemish virologist
  • IV. The sixties in Leuven and Prague
  • V. Enzymes : the secret of life as chemistry
  • VI. From interferon to nucleosides
  • VII. Breaking away from interferon
  • VIII. The first antiviral drugs
  • IX. Aids emerges in the shadow of the Cold War
  • X. From passivity to action
  • XI. First attempts to halt the epidemic
  • XII. Finding the best therapy : the one-a-day-pill
  • Epilogue : of scientists and crusaders.

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