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Preface | xiii | |
Part 1 | Identity--the Central Problem | 1 |
1 | Lives of the Twins | 3 |
2 | What Are You? | 7 |
3 | Whirligigs | 11 |
4 | Fighting Reductionism | 18 |
5 | The Fish, the Worm, and the Molecule | 22 |
6 | Telling Them Apart | 25 |
7 | Isomerism | 26 |
8 | Are There Two Identical Molecules? | 32 |
9 | Handshakes in the Dark | 36 |
10 | Molecular Mimicry | 44 |
Part 2 | The Way It Is Told | 53 |
11 | The Chemical Article | 55 |
12 | And How It Came to Be That Way | 58 |
13 | Beneath the Surface | 62 |
14 | The Semiotics of Chemistry | 65 |
15 | What DOES That Molecule Look Like? | 69 |
16 | Representation and Reality | 75 |
17 | Struggles | 79 |
18 | The Id Will Out | 82 |
Part 3 | Making Molecules | 85 |
19 | Creation and Discovery | 87 |
20 | In Praise of Synthesis | 94 |
21 | Cubane, and the Art of Making It | 101 |
22 | The Aganippe Fountain | 107 |
23 | Natural/Unnatural | 111 |
24 | Out to Lunch | 116 |
25 | Why We Prefer the Natural | 118 |
26 | Janus and Nonlinearity | 124 |
Part 4 | When Something Is Wrong | 127 |
27 | Thalidomide | 129 |
28 | The Social Responsibility of Scientists | 139 |
Part 5 | How, Just Exactly, Does It Happen? | 141 |
29 | Mechanism | 143 |
30 | The Salieri Syndrome | 150 |
31 | Static/Dynamic | 153 |
32 | Equilibrium, and Perturbing It | 160 |
Part 6 | A Life in Chemistry | 165 |
33 | Fritz Haber | 167 |
Part 7 | That Certain Magic | 177 |
34 | Catalyst! | 179 |
35 | Three Ways | 184 |
36 | Carboxypeptidase | 190 |
Part 8 | Value, Harm, and Democracy | 197 |
37 | Tyrian Purple, Woad, and Indigo | 199 |
38 | Chemistry and Industry | 204 |
39 | Athens | 209 |
40 | The Democratizing Nature of Chemistry | 211 |
41 | Environmental Concerns | 213 |
42 | Science and Technology in Classical Democracy | 217 |
43 | Anti-Plato; or, Why Scientists (or Engineers) Shouldn't Run the World | 219 |
44 | A Response to Worries About the Environment | 222 |
45 | Chemistry, Education, and Democracy | 227 |
Part 9 | The Adventures of a Diatomic | 229 |
46 | C[subscript 2] in All Its Guises | 231 |
Part 10 | The Dualities That Enliven | 241 |
47 | Creation Is Hard Work | 243 |
48 | Missing | 246 |
49 | An Attribute of the Devil | 250 |
50 | Chemistry Tense, Full of Life? | 254 |
51 | Cheiron | 257 |
Notes | 261 | |
Acknowledgments | 283 | |
Index | 287 |
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