Terminal by Robin Cook

Terminal by Robin Cook

Boston medical student Janet Reardon takes a year's leave from school to work at the cancer hospital, the Forbes Clinic. Driven to know exactly how the clinic's Dr Randolph Mason obtains his success rate with certain forms of cancer, Janet begins a probe and comes up with some troubling questions.

Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word medical to the thriller genre, and thirty one years after the publication of his breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created. Cook has successfully combined medical fact with fantasy to produce a succession of twenty-seven New York Times bestsellers that have been translated into forty languages. To date, they include Outbreak (1987), Mindbend (1988), Mutation (1989), Harmful Intent (1990), Vital Signs (1991), Blindsight (1992), Terminal (1993), Fatal Cure (1994), Acceptable Risk (1995), Contagion (1996), Chromosome 6 (1997), Toxin (1998), Vector (1999), Shock (2001), Seizure (2003), Marker (2005), Crisis (2006), Critical (2007) and Foreign Body (2008).

In each of his novels, Robin Cook strives to elucidate various medical/biotech ethical issues. Dr. Cook says he chose to write thrillers as a way to use entertainment as a method of exposing the public to public policy conundrums such as genetic engineering, medical economics, in vitro fertilization, research funding, managed care, drug research, organ transplantation, stem cell research, concierge medicine, and M.D. owned specialty hospitals.

There have been numerous theatrical movies, television movies, and mini-series made from Robin Cook's work. In addition to the successful feature film Coma, in December 1993, CBS-TV aired Robin Cook's Harmful Intent; in November 1994 NBC-TV aired Robin Cook's Mortal Fear; in May 1995, NBC-TV aired Robin Cook's Virus, based on Outbreak; in February 1996 NBC-TV aired Robin Cook's Terminal; in 1997 NBC-TV aired Robin Cook's Invasion; and in October 2001 TNT-TV aired Robin Cook's Acceptable Risk.

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ISBN 13	9780330321488
ISBN 10	033032148X
Title	Terminal
Author	Robin Cook
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	1994-02-25
Number of pages	448
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