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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.

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Book category Books in English Medicine Clinical & internal medicine Diseases & disorders

• Full title: Story of Taxol
• Subtitle: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug
• Author: Jordan GoodmanVivien Walsh
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 298
• EAN: 9780521561235
• ISBN: 052156123X
• ID: 02035257
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 528 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 158 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. March 2001

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