Robin Cook "Assault"

Author: Robin Cook Title: Seizure Original title: Seizure Genre: Medical thriller Publication year: 2002 Description: Senator Ashley Butler serves on the subcommittee on health policy. As a classic Southern demagogue, he opposes most innovations related to medicine, including—and perhaps above all—regenerative medicine. He opposes, for example, a specific study intended to advance the use of stem cells to a higher level. Such a decision, of course, meets with great dissatisfaction—from people who saw hope in stem cell therapy and from Dr. Lowell, who perceives it as a major blow to his budding career. Is the senator acting out of ethical motives and conviction, or is this a political maneuver? Although the answer to this question seems quite obvious, you’ll only find out if that’s actually the case by reading Robin Cook’s next book. `