Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-515) and index.
Contents
Prologue: "shooting rubber bands at the stars" -- 1. The occasional miracle -- "Laudable pus" -- "The man who does the most work does the best work" -- Bleak house -- The method of choice -- The Coley phenomenon -- 2. The patron saint of cytokines -- In search of an interferon -- Lymphodrek -- "The cloning of interferon and other mistakes" -- "One of my best known accidents" -- 3. The rise of the T cell chauvinists -- The silk purse years -- The rise of the T cell
chauvinists -- To be in motion -- The end of the beginning? -- "There's just so much you can learn from a mouse" -- 4. In vivo veritas -- "One plus one equals ten" -- "Beautiful living things" -- "Dr. Levy's favorite guinea pig" -- A piece of misleading news -- The next great magic bullet -- Epilogue: Metaphors, manic depression, and the "C" word -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
