The art and politics of science / Harold Varmus.

New York : W.W. Norton, [2009], ©2009.

xii, 315 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Origins and beginnings -- From literature to medicine to science -- The first taste of scientific success -- Retroviruses and their replication cycle -- The RSV oncogene and its progenitor -- How proto-oncogenes participate in cancer -- Targeted therapies for human cancers -- Partnerships in science -- The road to Building One -- Being NIH director -- Priority setting -- Bad times and good times as NIH director -- Embryos, cloning, stem cells, and the promise of reprogramming -- Global science and global health -- Science publishing and science libraries in the Internet age.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-290) and index.