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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