2: Biologist EDWARD GOLUB, whose book "The Limits of Medicine" (Random House) explores the history of medical advances and argues that medicine's new goal should be to extend health, not life span. There will be no "magic bullet" for today's major illnesses (cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's) like there was for earlier scourges like polio, smallpox and diphtheria, he says. EDWARD GOLUB was a professor of biology at Purdue University for twenty years and a director of research in the pharmaceutical industry for five years. He is president of the Pacific Center for Ethics and Applied Biology, a nonprofit group exploring the relationship between basic and applied biology.
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