Front Cover; The Cholesterol Wars: The Skeptics vs. the Preponderance of Evidence; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Overview; Chapter 2. Animal Models of Atherosclerosis; Chapter 3. Hypercholesterolemia and Atherosclerosis in Humans: Causally Related?; Chapter 4. Building the Basic Science Foundation; Chapter 5. In Search of a Pathogenesis; Chapter 6. The Search for Cholesterol-lowering Drugs; Chapter 7. The 1984 Coronary Primary Prevention Trial
Summary
Presents an analytic history of a major controversy in biomedical research and the lessons it offers in dealing with future controversies