二手書博民逛書店Hepatitis罕見B: The Hunt for a Killer Virus 乙型肝炎：尋找致命病毒 （Baruch S. Blumberg—— 1976年諾貝爾生理醫學獎獲得者、美國太空總署生物學家）【英文原版】Y149911 Baruch S. Blumberg Princeton university press 出版2002

作 者：Baruch S. Blumberg

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About 375 million people are infected with the hepatitis B virus. It has killed more people than AIDS and also causes millions of cases of liver cancer. The discovery of this deadly virus and the vaccine against it — a vaccine that is sharply decreasing the infection rate worldwide and is probably the first effective cancer vaccine — was one of the great triumphs of twentieth-century medicine. And it almost didn’t happen.

With wit and insight, this scientific memoir and story of discovery describes how Baruch Blumberg and a team of researchers found a virus they were not looking for and created a vaccine for a disease they previously knew little about — work that took the author around the world and won him the Nobel Prize.

Blumberg and his collaborators were investigating relationships between gene distribution and disease susceptibility, research that was yielding interesting data but no real breakthroughs. Many viewed their work as more field trip than science. But, through decades of hard work and investigative twists and turns, their pursuit led to the hepatitis B antigen, the elusive virus itself, and, ultimately, the vaccine. As he takes the reader through the detective work that culminated in his incredible discovery, the author recounts with immediacy exciting moments in the lab and in the field — from a hair-raising flight to Africa to an unpleasant encounter with Alaskan sled dogs.

The hepatitis B story is more than a fascinating chronicle of a major discovery. What Blumberg followed to the virus was a trail of remarkable “accidents” that happen when scientists seek answers to interesting questions. Those events, combined with the investigator’s determined persistence, resulted in studies that generated a pharmaceutical industry, have far-flung public-health applications, and saved millions of lives.

Baruch S. Blumberg holds an M.D. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Oxford University, where he has served as the Master of Balliol College. The editor of three books and the author of more than 400 scientific papers, he is Distinguished Senior Scientist at the Fox Chase Cancer Center and the Director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute. He was awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the work described in this book.

Baruch Blumberg 博士是美國費城福克斯･徹斯癌癥中心的著名科學家，也是美國賓夕法尼亞大學的醫學和人類學教授。

　　Baruch Blumberg博士的研究涉及多個領域，包括臨床學、流行病學、濾過性微生物學、遺傳學和人類學。由於他發現了“傳染性疾病的病源和傳播機理” 並在全球首次發現乙肝病毒，Baruch Blumberg博士於1976年被授予諾貝爾醫學獎。 Baruch Blumberg博士與Irving Millman博士一起，發明了乙肝疫苗和乙肝診斷檢測方法，二人因此被載入1993年美國發明家名錄。

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