Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations and Tables ix
4. Preface xiii
5. PART I. BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
6. Chapter One. Laboratory Notebooks and the Private Science of Louis Pasteur 3
7. Chapter Two. Pasteur in Brief 22
8. PART II. FROM CRYSTALS TO LIFE
9. Chapter Three. The Emergence of a Scientist The Discovery of Optical Isomers in the Tartrates 53
10. Chapter Four. From Crystals to Life Optical Activity, Fermentation, and Life 90
11. Chapter Five. Creating Life in Nineteenth-Century France Science, Politics, and Religion in the Pasteur- Pouchet Debate over Spontaneous Generation 110
12. PART III. VACCINES, ETHICS, AND SCIENTIFIC VS. MEDICAL MENTALITIES: ANTHRAX AND RABIES
13. Chapter Six. The Secret of Pouilly-le-Fort Competition and Deception in the Race for the Anthrax Vaccine 145
14. Chapter Seven. From Boyhood Encounter to "Private Patients" Pasteur and Rabies before the Vaccine 177
15. Chapter Eight. Public Triumphs and Forgotten Critics The Debate over Pasteur's Early Use of Rabies Vaccines in Human Cases 206
16. Chapter Nine. Private Doubts and Ethical Dilemmas Pasteur, Roux, and the Early Human Trials of Pasteur's Rabies Vaccine 234
17. PART IV. THE PASTORIAN MYTH
18. Chapter Ten. The Myth of Pasteur 259
19. Appendixes
20. Appendix A 281
21. Appendix B 283
22. Appendix C 286
23. Appendix D 287
24. Appendix E 290
25. Appendix F 292
26. Appendix Q 293
27. Appendix H 294
28. Appendix I 297
29. Appendix J 299
30. Appendix K 301
31. Author's Note on Notes and Sources 305
32. Notes 309
33. Acknowledgments 343
34. Bibliography 345
35. Index 367