The Quest to End Malaria

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 3, 2010

Bill Shore tells the story of the scientists determined to develop a vaccine for malaria, a feat most tropical disease experts have long considered impossible. In The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men: Inspiration, Vision, and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria, he looks at the character and moral fiber of people who devote their lives to solving the world’s most pressing and difficult problems, and examines what drives them to persist in their work.

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