The Cure
A Story of Cancer and Politics from the Annals of the Cold War
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Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Cast of Characters
Prologue
Act I. Discovery
Roskin: A Man and His Microscope
A Discovery
A Scientist at Work
Act II. Innovation
Kliueva: Making of a Bacteriologist
Research and Development
Boy Meets Girl
Act III. War
Retreat
The War and Soviet Medicine
Revival
Veber’s Ploy
Act IV. Politics
The American Ambassador
KR Comes to the New World
Between Worlds
Act V. Ideology
The Cold War
The Honor Court
The Trial
The KR Affair
Act VI. Culture
On Stage: Alien Shadow
On Screen: The Court of Honor
Fiction and Reality
Act VII. Ambitions
Building the Lab
Turf Wars
Competitive Exclusion
Act VIII. Ideas
KR on Trial
Between Bench and Bedside
"Trypanosa" and "Cruzin"
Epilogue
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Cast of Characters
Prologue
Act I. Discovery
Roskin: A Man and His Microscope
A Discovery
A Scientist at Work
Act II. Innovation
Kliueva: Making of a Bacteriologist
Research and Development
Boy Meets Girl
Act III. War
Retreat
The War and Soviet Medicine
Revival
Veber’s Ploy
Act IV. Politics
The American Ambassador
KR Comes to the New World
Between Worlds
Act V. Ideology
The Cold War
The Honor Court
The Trial
The KR Affair
Act VI. Culture
On Stage: Alien Shadow
On Screen: The Court of Honor
Fiction and Reality
Act VII. Ambitions
Building the Lab
Turf Wars
Competitive Exclusion
Act VIII. Ideas
KR on Trial
Between Bench and Bedside
"Trypanosa" and "Cruzin"
Epilogue
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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