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9780521561235

The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug

by Jordan Goodman , Vivien Walsh
  • ISBN13:

    9780521561235

  • ISBN10:

    052156123X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-03-05
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Taxol is arguably the most celebrated, talked-about and controversial natural product in recent years. It is celebrated because of its efficacy as an anti-cancer drug and because its discovery has provided powerful support for policies concerned with biodiversity; talked about because in the late 1980s and early 1990s the American public was bombarded with news reports and special programmes about the molecule and its host, the Pacific yew; and controversial because during the early 1990s the drug and the tree became embroiled in a number of very sensitive political issues with wide implications for the conduct of public policy. The Story of Taxol tells this story.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1(8)
Part I: Agents
Cancer Chemotherapy: Plant Knowledge and Practice
9(40)
Part II: Practices
Act I: 1962--1975
49(28)
Act II: 1976--1983
77(36)
Act III: 1984--1989
113(44)
Part III: Controversies
The Politics of Exclusivity and the Business of Taxol
157(36)
The Political Life (and Death) of Taxus brevifolia
193(58)
References and Bibliography 251(29)
Index 280

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