Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Medicine, Meliorism, and the Making of a Modern NCI 29
6. 2. Cancer Viruses and the Promise of a Vaccine, 1958–1968 48
7. 3. Moving Targets in the War on Cancer, 1969–1979 88
8. 4. Back to Basics: Human Cancer Retrovirus Research, 1980–1984 121
9. 5. HIV Research and Drug Development, 1985–1989 152
10. 6. Lost in Translation, 1990–2001 180
11. 7. From Roadmap to Moonshot, 2002–2016 217
12. Conclusion 249
13. Methodological Appendix 259
14. Notes 265
15. Bibliography 321
16. Index 331