Acknowledgments |
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A Note on the Translation |
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Introduction: A Scientist in His Life's Project |
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PART I: The Making of a Romantic Character (1911--1947) |
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``I Have Never in My Life Felt I Belonged in the Place Where I Lived'' |
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3 | (13) |
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``Stylistically, I'm Best at Irony'' |
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16 | (13) |
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``I Wanted to Study Something That Couldn't Be Used'' |
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29 | (10) |
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``I Have the Feeling That Everything Around Me Is Enveloped in a Mist'' |
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39 | (13) |
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``When I Look at Other Scientists . . . None of Them Have Wasted as Many Years as I Have'' |
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52 | (11) |
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``Now I Think Nobody Can Keep Me from Becoming a Doctor'' |
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63 | (12) |
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``To Be Able to Let Nature Reflect in the Depths of My Own Soul'' |
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75 | (13) |
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``I Am Branded with Infidelity, and See That Open-Eyed'' |
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88 | (8) |
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``Letters Are a Spiritual Spiderweb in Which You Snare the Dreaming Soul of Woman'' |
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96 | (13) |
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Part II: The Making of the Selection Theory (1947--1954) |
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109 | (64) |
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``The Happiness of Feeling Superior to a Lot of People'' |
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111 | (13) |
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``I Think the Work Has Principal Application to Immunology'' |
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124 | (9) |
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``Antibody This, Antibody That, They Weren't Really Much Interested'' |
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133 | (11) |
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``These People Don't Know What They're Doing'' |
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144 | (12) |
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``I Suppose I Should Do Something, Maybe an Experiment or Something'' |
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156 | (17) |
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Parabasis: The Selection Theory as a Personal Confession |
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173 | (18) |
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Part III: A Man, His Theory, and His Network (1954--1994) |
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191 | (101) |
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``My Hopes and Failures Are Within Myself'' |
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193 | (16) |
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``This Theory Hadn't Made Much of a Stir, So Now, What Was I to Do?'' |
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209 | (8) |
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``I'd Better Make Sure I Learn a Little about Immunology'' |
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217 | (16) |
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``Finally, My Precious, I Have to Be Brilliant and Make Antibodies'' |
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233 | (16) |
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``Like a Log Coming Slowly to the Surface of a Lake'' |
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249 | (18) |
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``I Still Think That My Original Natural Selection Theory Was Better'' |
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267 | (11) |
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``Immunology Is for Me Becoming a Mostly Philosophical Subject'' |
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278 | (14) |
Epilogue: ``What Struggle to Escape'' |
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292 | (5) |
Abbreviations Used in Notes |
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297 | (2) |
Notes |
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299 | (30) |
Unpublished Sources |
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329 | (2) |
Bibliography |
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331 | (20) |
Index |
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