Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Prologue: A Very Small Difference . . . 1
5. Part One. The Cytologist’s Dilemma
6. One. The Living Substance 11
7. Two. The Membrane Boundary 35
8. Three. Breakthroughs 59
9. Part Two. From Cells to Molecules
10. Four. The Endoplasmic Reticulum 85
11. Five. The Signal Hypothesis 113
12. Six. The Strange Case of the Signal Recognition Particle 143
13. Seven. Enemies, Real and Imagined 167
14. Eight. The Light at the End of the Tunnel 191
15. Part Three. Form Redux
16. Nine. Topogenesis and Spatial Information 223
17. Ten. In Vitro Veritas? 247
18. Eleven. Form, Context, and the Epistemic Strategy of Cell Biology 267
19. Epilogue 1975 and All That 291
20. A Note on Sources 303
21. References 305
22. Index 337