Prize Fight: The Race and the Rivalry to Be the First in Science

by Morton Meyers

Book Overview

We often think of scientists as dispassionate and detached, nobly laboring without any expectation of reward. But scientific research is much more complicated and messy than this ideal, and scientists can be torn by jealousy, impelled by a need for recognition, and subject to human vulnerability and fallibility. In Prize Fight , Emeritus Chair at SUNY School of Medicine Morton Meyers pulls back the curtain to reveal the dark side of scientific discovery...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230338909
• ISBN13: 9780230338906
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"