A skeptical biochemist /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1992.
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Table of Contents:
- Biochemistry and skepticism
- Perspectives on the scientific method
- Views of Peter Medawar
- Claude Bernard and his Medecine experimentale
- Justus von Liebig on Francis Bacon
- On craftsmanship
- On hypotheses in the biochemical sciences
- Sanger and insulin: a case history
- Perils of the search for simplicity
- Interplay of biology and chemistry
- Nineteenth-century debates
- Emergence of biochemistry
- Nineteenth-century cytology, embryology, and microbiology
- Twentieth-century embryology versus genetics
- Emergence of biochemical genetics
- Sack full of enzymes?
- On biomolecular structure
- Jacques Monod and allostery
- On energy-rich phosphate bonds
- Dynamics of biochemical processes
- On biochemical function and purpose
- On specificity and individuality
- Evolutionary theory and the unity of biology
- Approaches to the history of the biochemical sciences
- On historians of chemistry
- On historians of the biochemical sciences
- On scientific disciplines
- On the origins of molecular biology
- On scientific biography and autobiography
- Reflections on the biochemical literature
- Words of the tribe
- Is the scientific paper a fraud?