Big Shot

By Patricia Thomas

Subjects: Aids (disease), political aspects, Aids vaccines, Vaccines, popular works, Research, Aids (disease), research, Popular Works, HIV (Viruses), AIDS (Disease), Popular works, History, 20th Century, Health Policy, AIDS vaccines, Economics, History, AIDS Vaccines

Description: "When Patricia Thomas set out to chronicle the search for an AIDS vaccine, she expected to find a classic struggle between ingenious young scientists and an exceptionally wily microbe. But she was in for a surprise. She soon learned that although the scientific challenges involved in making an AIDS vaccine are immense, this alone does not explain why the world still doesn't have such a vaccine - twenty years after the pandemic began. In Big Shot, Thomas dramatizes the controversial search for a vaccine - the players, the politics, the money - in a vivid, suspenseful story that reveals how science is done, and not done, in America today."--BOOK JACKET.