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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Prefatory Note
Going Viral
1. Arrowsmith and CRISPR at the Marine Biological Laboratory
2. Ebola and the Cabinet of Dr. Proust
3. Zika, Kale, and Calligraphy: Ricky Jay and Matthias Buchinger
4. Ike on Orlando: “Every Gun Is a Theft”
5. Nobel on Columbus Avenue
6. Lupus and the Course of Empire
7. Groucho on the Gridiron
8. Apply Directly to Forehead: Holmes, Zola, and Hennapecia
Science Fictions
9. Swift-Boating Darwin: Alternative and Complementary Science
10. Spinal Irritation and the Failure of Nerve
11. Galton’s Prayer
12. Dr. Doyle and the Case of the Guilty Gene
Two for the Road
13. Swift-Boating “America the Beautiful”: Katharine Lee Bates and a Boston Marriage
14. Alice James and Rheumatic Gout
15. Free Radicals Can Kill You: Lavoisier and the Oxygen Revolution
16. Dr. Blackwell Returns from London
17. Call Me Madame
Beside the Golden Door
18. Welcome to America: Einstein’s Letter to the Dean
19. Modernism and the Hippocampus: Kandel’s Vienna
20. A Taste of the Oyster: Jan Vilcek’s Love and Science
21. Richard Dawkins Lights a Brief Candle in the Dark
22. Eugenics and the Immigrant: Rosalyn Yalow
23. Cortisone and the Burning Cross
Ave atque Vale
24. Lewis Thomas and the Two Cultures
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
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