Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction: Chemical Sciences in the Modern World XI
4. I: Practice
5. THEORETICAL
6. Philosophies of Chemistry Since the Eighteenth Century 3
7. TECHNICAL
8. Uses and Images of Instruments in Chemistry 25
9. Systems of Production: Drosophila, Neurospora, and Biochemical Genetics 43
10. SOCIAL
11. The Quiet Revolution of the 1850s: Social and Empirical Sources of Scientific Theory 87
12. Justus Liebig and the Construction of Organic Chemistry 119
13. Part II: Production
14. The Evolution of the Chemical Industry: A Technological Perspective 137
15. Chemistry and Biomedicine in an Industrial Setting: The Invention of the Sulfa Drugs 158
16. Defining Chemistry: Origins of the Heroic Chemist 216
17. Part III: Public Interface
18. CHALLENGE TO PRESERVE
19. Documenting Modern Chemistry: The Historical Task of the Archivist 237
20. Two Useful Tools for Documentation Strategies: Historical and Documentation Research 254
21. CHALLENGE TO PUBLIC OUTREACH
22. History of Chemistry and the Chemical Community: Bridging the Gap? 262
23. The Museum, Meaning, and History: The Case of Chemistry 277
24. CHALLENGE TO PUBLIC POLICY
25. Between Knowledge and Action: Themes in the History of Environmental Chemistry 295
26. The Chemogastric Revolution and the Regulation of Food Chemicals 322
27. The Chemical Industries and Their Publics: How Can History Help? 356
28. IV: Prospects
29. The Prospect from Here 367
30. Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered 370
31. Women in Research Schools: Approaching an Analytical Lacuna in the History of Chemistry and Allied Sciences 375
32. Bibliography 393
33. List of Contributors 405
34. Index 409
35. Backmatter 418