Table of Content
Table of ContentsI. Touching Life at Many Points 1. Disseminators Aloft?2. Pantoea and the Locust3. The Microbiology of Art4. Why Do They Do It?5. Out of the Blue6. Reflections on Cellulolysis7. Jelly From Space?8. Botox and Dairy Cows9. Fiction, Fact, and Reality10. Microbiology for Gastronomes11. The Double Life of Escherichia coli12. Not All Cigars and Caviar13. Microbial Versatility in Berlin14. Whither Psychoneuroimmunology? II. The Ecological Context 15. Communal Diversity in Biofilms16. Biofilm Life17. Our Most Abundant Coterrestrials18. Helicobacter from the Seas?19. Selective Agencies20. Natural Disaster Microbiology21. Foot-and-Mouth Folly?22. Ecology Lessons23. Biocides in the Kitchen24. Conjectures and Realities25. Exterminating Pathogens26. Learning from Denmark27. Protozoa and Lurking Pathogens28. What Is Virulence? III. The Human Context 29. Questionable Experiments30. Lyme Disease: the Public Dimension31. Blatant Opportunism32. Bioscience Embattled33. "Playing God"34. Microbes in the Media35. A Little Learning...36. Spotlight on Acetaldehyde37. Measles, Polio, and Conscience38. Myxomatosis: Grim Questions39. Rationalizing Vaccination40. A European Furor41. Bioremediation and Greenery42. The Citation Game IV. Personalia 43. Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Clifford Dobell, and Robert Hooke44. Robert Koch and His Postulates45. Hideyo Noguchi, Max Theiler, and Yellowjack46. René Dubos's Mirage of Health47. Ferdinand Cohn, Neglected Visionary48. Johannes Fibiger, a Dane to Remember49. Frederick Twort, Codiscoverer of Phages50. Alick Isaacs and Interferon51. Dissenters: Max von Pettenkofer and Friedrich Wolter52. Gerhard Domagk and the Origins of Sulfa53. Cecil Hoare's Eponymous Organism54. Ants and Fred Hoyle's Challenge to Darwinism55. Pioneers of American Microbiology V. Doing Microbiology 56. At the Level of Cowpats57. Fishy Business58. Science a La Mode?59. "Wherever They Are Found..."60. There's More To Do61. Self-Frustration62. Genomics and Innovation in Antibiotics63. The Relevance of Taxonomy64. Yeasts Are Complex...65. ...And Yeasts Are Versatile66. Resounding Banalities67. Microbiology Present and Future68. Looking Back69. A Global Challenge
