Intuition
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (721 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0739325248 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 239 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Jenna Stern delivers a lively depiction of the high-pressure world of cancer research. Postdoctoral researcher Cliff may have fudged his amazing tumor-reducing results while his bosses are all too eager to capitalize on any discovery. Stern does a particularly deft job with the heated interchange between Sandy Glass, a lab director, and an irate congressional panel. They all sound remarkably alike, and Stern's voice is too mature for the 20-somethings. Her narrative commences on a fairly even note and increases in intensity as Nobel Prize fantasies are dashed by congressional hearings and political realities. All rights reser
Now she returns with a bracing new novel, at once an intricate mystery and a rich human drama set in the high-stakes atmosphere of a prestigious research institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Sandy Glass, a charismatic publicity-seeking oncologist, and Marion Mendelssohn, a pure, exacting scientist, are codirectors of a lab at the Philpott Institute dedicated to cancer research and desperately in need of a grant. But Cliff’s rigorous colleague–and girlfriend–Robin Decker suspects the unthinkable: that his findings are fraudulent. Both mentors and supervisors of their young postdoctoral protégés, Glass and Mendelssohn demand dedication and obedience in a competitive environment where funding is scarce and results elusive. So when the experiments of Cliff Bannaker, a young postdoc in a r
The Heart of Science "Intuition" is science as observed by Jane Austen rather than Michael Crichton. I was mesmerized from page one and cried when I reached the gentle revelation of the last scene. Science has long deserved a literary treatment by a great novelist and Allegra Goodman delivers with her carefully-examined microcosm.The novel is a character study rather than a whodunit, or more precisely, whodonewhat. The central plot of alleged fraud in the lab provides the dissecting knife to tease apart the complicated relationships among the lab mentors and serfs--postdoctoral researchers and technicians. Goodman absolutely nails the. "A Thriller about Intrigue in the Laboratory" according to Fairbanks Reader - Bonnie Brody. This novel is an intellectual thriller, an extremely readable, can't-put-down book about the uses and abuses of pure science.The novel takes place in a laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts that is peopled by post-docs, all working on finding a cure for cancer. The lab is run by two people, very different in their styles and approach to research methodology. Sandy Glass is an oncologist, the 'voice' of the lab, the jovial fund-raiser who can shmooze anyone and never miss a beat in a conversation. He's looking for a quick winner in the research department. Marion is the chief research scientist. She is shy in publ. A scientific drama Sourabh Banerjee Allegra Goodman does a wonderful job of taking the lives of postdocs in science- especially biomedical research, out to the common reader. It is true that most non-scientists cannot understand or appreciate the long erratic hours and costs poured into scientific research and the book does a great job of demystifying that and bringing the politics of science in the forefront. Ms. Goodman does not take sides of the characters and tries to present viewpoints of all sides.The plot could be made more interesting for the more scientific reader. Science magazine, in its review, aptly phrases the problem- 'While the plot