5 Jonas Salk: American Hero, Scientific Outcast

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Perchance to Dream— Fostering Novelty in the Life Sciences 1
4. Part I: The Evolutionists
5. 1 Jean- Baptiste Lamarck: Biological Visionary 20
6. 2 Ernst Haeckel: A Dream Transformed 35
7. 3 Peter Kropotkin: Anarchist, Revolutionary, Dreamer 51
8. Part II: The Medicalists
9. 4 Mary Lasker: Citizen Lobbyist for Medical Research 70
10. 5 Jonas Salk: American Hero, Scientific Outcast 83
11. 6 The Origins of “Dynamic Reciprocity”: Mina Bissell’s Expansive Picture of Cancer Causation 96
12. Part III: The Molecularists
13. 7 W. Ford Doolittle: Evolutionary Provocations and a Pluralistic Vision 112
14. 8 Collecting Dreams in the Molecular Sciences: Margaret Dayhoff and The Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure 128
15. 9 Neanderthals in Space: George Church’s Modest Steps toward Possible Futures 143
16. Part IV: The Ecologists
17. 10 From New Alchemy to Living Machines: John Todd’s Dreams of Ecological Engineering 162
18. 11 Stephen Hubbell and the Paramount Power of Randomness 176
19. 12 Rachel Carson: Prophet for the Environment 196
20. Part V: The Ethologists
21. 13 Jane Goodall: She Dreamed of Tarzan 210
22. 14 Francis Crick and the Problem of Consciousness 227
23. 15 David Sloan Wilson: Visionary, Idealist, Ideologue 238
24. Part VI: The Systematizers
25. 16 D’Arcy Thompson: Archetypical Visionary 256
26. 17 James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis: “A New Look at Life on Earth” . . . for the Life and the Earth Sciences 272
27. 18 Big Dreams for Small Creatures: Ilana and Eugene Rosenberg’s Path to the Hologenome Theory 288
28. Epilogue: The Scientist Dreamer 305
29. List of Contributors 309
30. Index 311