ONCOGENES ANEUPLOIDY&AIDS SCIENCELIFE HARVEY BIALY EN GRAN MORELOS

The book is new and Autographed by Harvey Bialy. In this authoritative and elegantly written book, Harvey Bialy exposes a microcosm of todays medical science in a blistering analysis of the history of modern cancer and AIDS research. An almost unique hybrid of scientific biography and autobiography, Oncogenes, Aneuploidy and AIDS is replete with Nobel laureates , editors of prestigious journals like Nature and Science, presidents of the USA and South Africa and colorful characters such as Honest Dollar Bill, and the OncoMouse. But the central figure of Bialys book is Peter Duesberg, a classical, no-nonsense U.C. Berkeley professor who has for more than twenty years presented data and interpretations to cancer and AIDS scientists that call into question the fundamental notions of causality they espouse and which represent the dominant, mainstream positions that specific genes via mutations cause cancer, and HIV causes AIDS. The sadly predictable result of questioning these two sacred cows of modern biomedicine was the almost complete destruction of a once lofty professional standing. Of late, however, Duesbergs name has begun to undergo some significant reconstruction as Bialy makes clear in telling the fascinating and instructive story of his banishment from the High Table and his recent partial return to favor. To this reader, Duesbergs situation suggests parallels with that of another cell geneticist, the Nobel Prize winner Barbara McClintock. For decades her work was ignored by all except the very few who understood that the ideas and data were persuasive and worth serious consideration even though they did not fit the existing fashion The book is new and Autographed by Harvey Bialy .