Medal Winners: How the Vietnam War Launched Nobel Careers by Greenberg, Raymond S.

Medal Winners: How the Vietnam War Launched Nobel Careers

As the ground war in Vietnam escalated in the late 1960s, the US government leveraged the so-called...
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Medal Winners: How the Vietnam War Launched Nobel Careers by Greenberg, Raymond S.

Medal Winners: How the Vietnam War Launched Nobel Careers

$107.40

Medal Winners: How the Vietnam War Launched Nobel Careers

$107.40
Author: Raymond S. Greenberg
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

As the ground war in Vietnam escalated in the late 1960s, the US government leveraged the so-called doctor draft to secure adequate numbers of medical personnel in the armed forces. Among newly minted physicians' few alternatives to military service was the Clinical Associate Training Program at the National Institutes of Health. Though only a small percentage of applicants were accepted, the elite program launched an unprecedented number of remarkable scientific careers that would revolutionize medicine at the end of the twentieth century.

Medal Winners recounts this overlooked chapter and unforeseen byproduct of the Vietnam War through the lives of four former NIH clinical associates who would go on to become Nobel laureates. Raymond S. Greenberg traces their stories from their pre-NIH years and apprenticeships through their subsequent Nobel Prize-winning work, which transformed treatment of heart disease, cancer, and other diseases. Greenberg shows how the Vietnam draft unintentionally ushered in a golden era of research by bringing talented young physicians under the tutelage of leading scientists and offers a lesson in what it may take to replicate such a towering center of scientific innovation as the NIH in the 1960s and 1970s.



Author: Raymond S. Greenberg
Publisher: University of Texas Health Press
Published: 02/10/2020
Pages: 440
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781477319420

About the Author
Raymond S. GreenbergSarasota, Florida, and Belfast, MaineA nationally recognized cancer researcher and leader in academic medicine, Dr. Raymond S. Greenberg has served as president of the Medical University of South Carolina and most recently as executive vice chancellor for health affairs at the University of Texas System. Greenberg's research on cancer epidemiology was particularly focused on the role of race and ethnicity in cancer risk and prognosis. He is the author of more than 150 scientific publications and editor of Medical Epidemiology: Population Health and Effective Health Care.


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