Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Differences in Response to Disease Chapter 2. Oxford and the National Institutes of Health: Inherited Variation and Susceptibility to Disease Chapter 3. Polymorphisms and Geography: Disease, Genetics, and Evolutionary Biology Chapter 4. We Discover a New Polymorphism: The Ag System Chapter 5. The Discovery of Australia Antigen Chapter 6. What Is Australia Antigen? Chapter 7. Identifying the Hepatitis B Virus Chapter 8. The Control of Posttransfusion Hepatitis Chapter 9. The Hepatitis B Vaccine Chapter 10. Hepatitis B Virus and Cancer of the Liver Chapter 11. What Is Now Known about HBV? Chapter 12. Back to Polymorphisms and Inherited Susceptibility to Disease Chapter 13. HBV and Its Connections: Current Research and the Future Appendix 1. Scientists and Staff at Fox Chase Cancer Center Referred to in the Text Appendix 2. Research on Hyaluronic Acid Appendix 3. The National Institutes of Health and the Funding of Basic Medical Research Appendix 4. Molecular Biology Appendix 5. A Gazetteer of Selected Place-Names Used in the Text Index