A skeptical biochemist /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fruton, Joseph S. (Joseph Stewart), 1912-2007
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992.
Subjects:
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?