The fevers of reason: new and selected essays

Going viral

Arrowsmith and CRISPR at the Marine Biological Laboratory

Ebola and the cabinet of Dr. Proust

Zika, kale, and calligraphy: Ricky Jay and Matthias Buchinger

Ike on Orlando: "Every gun is a theft"

Nobel on Columbus Avenue

Lupus and the course of empire

Grouch on the gridiron

Apply directly to forehead: Holmes, Zola, and hennapecia

Science fictions

Swift-boating Darwin: alternative and complementary science

Spinal irritation and the failure of nerve

Galton's prayer

Dr. Doyle and the case of the guilty gene

Two for the road

Swift-boating "America the beautiful": Katherine Lee Bates and a Boston marriage

Alice James and rheumatic gout

Free radicals can kill you: Lavoisier and the oxygen revolution

Dr. Blackwell returns from London

Call me Madame

Beside the golden door

Welcome to America: Einstein's letter to the Dean

Modernism and the hippocampus: Kandel's Vienna

A taste of the oyster: Jan Vilcek's Love and science

Richard Dawkins lights a Brief candle in the dark

Eugenics and the immigrant: Rosalyn Yalow

Cortisone and the burning cross

Ave atque vale

Lewis Thomas and the two cultures.