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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: What is history for?
Part One: Right for the wrong reasons
1 The pasteurization of spontaneous generation
2 ‘The battle over the electron’
3 The eclipse of Isaac Newton: Arthur Eddington’s ‘proof of general relativity
4 Very unscientific management
5 The Hawthorne studies: finding what you are looking for
Conclusion to Part I: Sins against science?
Part Two: Telling science as it was
6 Myth in the time of cholera
7 ‘The Priest who held the key’: Gregor Mendel and the ratios of fact and fiction
8 Was Joseph Lister Mr Clean?
9 The Origin of Species by means of use-inheritance
10 ‘A is for ape, B is for Bible’: science, religion, and melodrama
11 Painting yourself into a corner: Charles Best and the discovery of insulin
12 Alexander Fleming’s dirty dishes
13 ‘A decoy of Satan’
Conclusion to Part Two: Sins against history?
Notes on sources
Index
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