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by Gerald Weissmann


  anemia

  animal magnetism

  Anne (Queen). See Stuart, Anne

  antibodies

  antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (Hughes syndrome)

  An Appetite for Wonder (Dawkins),

  Archer, Linda

  Arrowsmith (Lewis)

  art

  brain and

  Eisenhower, D., and

  grid cells and

  irrationality and

  knowledge and

  science and

  self-examination and

  after twentieth century

  arthritis

  RA

  rheumatic gout

  rheumatology and cortisone for

  TNF and

  Asian immigrants

  Asiatic cholera

  atheism

  athletics. See also college football

  atomic energy

  The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

  autoimmunity

  Awete, Esther

  Ayurvedic science

  Bach, Johann Sebastian

  bacteriophages

  Baker, S. Josephine

  Baltimore, David

  Banting, Frederick

  Barker, Nicolas

  Barry, Kitty

  Bates, Katharine Lee

  “America the Beautiful” by

  background and life of

  Coman and

  Beach, Henry Harris Aubrey

  Becquerel, Henri

  Beecher, Henry Ward

  Bell, Joseph

  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and

  Doyle and

  Galton and

  Holmes and

  Benacerraf, Baruj

  Benson, Herbert

  Bernard, Claude

  Berson, Solomon

  Best, Charles

  Bethea, Charles

  bisphosphonates

  Blackwell, Elizabeth

  alternative medicine and

  on being first female physician

  Blot and

  early life of

  education and medical degree for

  on experimental science

  in France

  Lamartine and

  Louis, C., and

  purulent ophthalmia and

  social work done by

  on typhus

  in United Kingdom

  women in medicine and

  on women’s rights

  Blackwell, Emily

  Blackwell, Henry Browne

  Blackwell, Samuel

  Blackwell family

  Blau, Helen

  Bloom, Barry R.

  Bloomberg, Michael

  Blot, Hippolyte

  body piercing

  Bookman

  Boston Daily Advertiser

  Bradley, Omar

  brain

  branding

  breast cancer

  Brief Candle in the Dark (Dawkins)

  Brockman, Jane

  Brown, Thomas

  Bryant, William Cullen

  Buchinger, Matthias

  Burkeman, Oliver

  CABG. See coronary artery bypass graft

  Calkins, Mary

  calligraphy

  calomel

  CAM. See Complementary and Alternative Methodologies

  Canada

  cancer

  breast

  James, A., and

  Cannon, Walter B.

  Carnegie, Andrew

  Carr, John Dickson

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

  chalcone synthase (CHS)

  Changeux, Jean-Pierre

  Charcot, Jean-Martin

  Chemical Revolution

  chess

  children

  guns and

  infant mortality rates

  Chinese Exclusion Act (1881)

  cholera. See Asiatic cholera

  Christian Science

  chronic fatigue syndrome

  CHS. See chalcone synthase

  civil rights legislation

  Clarke, Andrew

  class warfare

  Coffinhal du Bail, Jean-Baptiste

  Cohen, Stanley

  Cohn, E. J.

  Collège de France

  college football

  financial enterprise of

  in Horse Feathers

  NCAA and

  at Ohio State University

  professionalization of

  recruiting for

  at Robert Morris University

  scholarships for

  at University of Chicago

  Columbian Exposition

  Coman, Katharine

  Complementary and Alternative Methodologies (CAM)

  complementary science

  Conant, James

  Concorde fallacy

  contact dermatitis

  cordon sanitaire

  coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)

  cortisone

  Credé, Karl

  criminal investigation

  CRISPR acronym

  Arrowsmith and

  DNA and

  Doudna and

  genetic engineering and

  overview of

  RNA and

  Crowther, Robert

  culture

  Curie, Maria Salomea Sklodowskaa

  Curie, Pierre

  Cushier, Elizabeth

  Cuvier, Georges

  cytokines

  Czechoslovakia

  Darnton, Robert

  Darwin, Charles

  Darwin, Sara

  Darwin family

  Darwinism

  Daudet, Leon

  David, Jacques-Louis

  Davies, Joseph E.

  Dawkins, Richard

  deformities

  de Kruif, Paul

  Delabigne, Lucie

  de Lesseps, Ferdinand

  Dembski, William

  deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

  de Pastino, Todd

  detective stories

  by Doyle

  Freud and

  by Poe

  sensational effects of

  diabetes

  Dickens, Charles

  Diderot, Denis

  Dingle, John

  Discovery Institute

  discrimination

  Djerassi, Carl

  DNA. See deoxyribonucleic acid

  Dobzhansky, Theodosius

  Dole, Vincent P.

  double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA)

  Doudna, Jennifer

  Doyle, Arthur Conan

  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by

  Bell and

  Poe and

  A Study in Scarlet by

  writers influencing

  Draper, John William

  Dreyfusards

  dsRNA. See double-stranded ribonucleic acid

  Dulbecco, Renato

  Duncan, Thomas Eric

  Dupin, Chevalier Auguste

  dynamin

  dynasore

  Dyngo

  Ebola

  bisphosphonates for

  drugs used to treat

  epidemics of

  exposure to

  Frieden on

  gun violence and

  pharmacology for

  quarantine for

  sanitation and

  transmission of

  travel bans for

  in United States

  Eddy, Mary Baker Glover Patterson

  Edmunds, Almy

  Edsel, Robert

  education. See also specific colleges

  Ehrlich, Paul

  Ehrmann, Rolf

  Ehrmann, Rudolf

  Einstein, Albert

  Ehrmann, R., and

  Langevin and

  McEwen and

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  art, culture and

  on guns

  on Korean War

  McCarthy, J., and

  Metropolitan Museum of Art and


  The Monuments Men and

  on segregation

  Eisenhower, Susan

  Eliot, Charles W.

  Eliot, George

  Emancipation Proclamation

  encephalitis virus

  Enlightenment

  epidemics

  of Asiatic cholera

  of Ebola

  guns as

  stopping

  travel bans during

  epigenetics

  ethics

  eugenics

  Darwinism relating to

  Galton and

  immigrants and

  race in

  evolutionary theory

  experimental biology

  experimental reason

  experimental science

  experiments

  extended phenomes

  Faulkner, William

  Fell, Honor B.

  female reproductive tract

  Fermi, Enrico

  fetal abnormalities

  kale and

  limbless deformity

  thalidomide liked to

  Vitamin A and

  Zika and

  fibromyalgia

  fingerprinting

  Fire, Andrew Z.

  Fischl, Erich

  food allergies

  football. See college football

  Foucault, Michel

  Foudroyant

  France

  Blackwell, Elizabeth, in

  Collège de France

  Curie family in

  French Postal Service

  French Revolution in

  Nobel Prize in

  science in

  Franklin, Benjamin

  Freeman, Alice

  free radicals

  French Postal Service

  French Revolution

  Freud, Sigmund

  Frieden, Thomas R.

  Friend, Robert

  From Paralysis to Fatigue (Shorter)

  Fuller, Margaret

  Galton, Francis

  Bell and

  Darwin, C., and

  eugenics and

  fingerprinting and

  on prayer

  Garrod, Alfred Baring

  Garrod, Archibald Edward

  gay marriage

  gene silencing

  gene splicing

  genetic engineering

  genetics

  George III (King). See Hessian, George, III

  Gerháth, Marica

  Germany

  Gerschman, Rebecca

  glaucoma

  Glorious Revolution of 1688

  The God Delusion (Dawkins)

  “going viral”

  “The Gold Bug” (Poe)

  Gomez, Luis

  Good, Robert A.

  Gould, Stephen Jay

  Great Depression

  grid cells

  Grove of Academe

  guilt

  guns

  in Canada

  children and

  cost of

  deaths from, in United States

  Ebola and

  Eisenhower, D., on

  as epidemics

  mass shootings and

  NRA and

  Gustaf, Carl XVI

  hair dye

  hair loss

  Hamilton, W. D.

  Hammond, William Alexander

  Hargraves, Malcolm M.

  Harman, Denham

  Harrison, William Henry

  Hart-Celler Act. See Immigration and Nationality Act

  Harte, Bret

  Hartley, Marsden

  Harvard Medical School murder

  hate crimes

  healing

  Hench, Philip

  henna

  hennapecia

  Hessian, George, III (King George III)

  histology

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hockney, David

  Hoffman, Josef

  Hoffmann, Roald

  holism

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell

  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and

  in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

  Bell and

  celebrity status of

  Dickens and

  family of

  on homeopathy

  Louis, P-.C-.A., and

  photography by

  scholarly works by

  on spinal irritation

  Webster-Parkman case and

  Holocaust

  homeopathy

  Hooke, Robert

  Horse Feathers

  Howe, Julia Ward

  Hughes, Graham R. V.

  Hughes syndrome. See antiphospholipid antibody syndrome

  Hungary

  Huxley, Thomas Henry

  hypochondriacal mania

  hysteria

  ID. See intelligent design

  imitation

  immigrants

  Act of Denization and

  American science and

  Asian

  eugenics and

  from Germany

  Jewish exclusion

  Nobel Prize for

  refugees and

  in United Kingdom

  in United States

  Immigration and Nationality Act (1965)

  immigration policies

  immunology

  Thomas and

  Industrial History of the United States (Coman)

  infant mortality rates

  inflammation

  inflammatory disorders. See also arthritis

  infliximab. See Remicade

  Ingelfinger, Franz

  insanity

  insulin

  intelligent design (ID)

  Jones, J., on

  peer review articles for

  science and

  investigation

  irrationality

  Isaacs, Alick

  Italy

  James, Alice

  cancer and

  Garrod, A. B., and

  influence of

  literature by

  Loring and

  medical misogyny and

  on politics

  rheumatic gout and

  Strouse on

  James, Henry

  James, Henry, Sr.

  James, Rob

  James, William

  jaundice

  Jay, Ricky

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jewish exclusion

  Johnson, Lyndon

  John Templeton Foundation

  Joliot-Curie, Frédéric

  Joliot-Curie, Irène

  Jones, Cardale

  Jones, John, III

  Jorgensen, Richard

  Joslin, Eliott

  Journal of Biological Chemistry

  Julian, Percy Lavon

  kale

  Kandel, Eric

  Kaye, Danny

  Kelsey, Frances

  Kendall, Edward

  Klimt, Gustav

  knowledge

  Koestler, Arthur

  Korean War

  Kristof, Nicholas

  Krucoff, William

  Lagrange, Joseph-Louis

  Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste

  Lamartine, Alphonse

  Lander, Eric

  Langevin, Paul

  Laurence, William A.

  Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent

  Lavoisier, Marie-Anne

  lawsone

  Lederberg, Joshua

  leeches

  Lemieux, Christine

  Lennox, John

  Levi-Montalcini, Rita

  Lewis, Sinclair

  life expectancy

  limbless deformity

  Lincoln, Abraham

  liposomes

  Litchfield, Henrietta

  literary genres

  memoirs

  mystery and detective stories

  science fiction

  liver

  Loeb, Jacques

  Loeb, Robert F.

  Loewi, Otto

  Long, B
reckinridge

  Loring, Katharine Peabody

  Louis, Charles

  Louis, Pierre-Charles-Alexandre

  Louis XVI (King)

  Love and Science: A Memoir (Vilcek)

  lupus. See systemic lupus erythematosus

  Luria, Salvador

  lymphokines

  Macleod, John

  Mallory, Tracy

  Marine Biological Laboratory

  marriage laws

  Marseilles

  mass shootings

  maternal imprinting

  Mauldin, Bill

  McAdam, John L.

  McCarthy, Gene

  McCarthy, Joe

  McCluskey, R. T.

  McEwen, Currier

  McGrath, Charles

  McLeod, Colin

  medical fashions

  medical misogyny

  medicine. See also specific topics

  science and

  women in

  Mello, Craig

  memes

  memoirs

  meningococcal meningitis

  Mesmer, Anton

  mesmerism

  metabolism

  Metropolitan Museum of Art

  microbes

  micrography

  microscopes

  military-industrial complex

  mind

  Minot, George R.

  Mitchell, S. Weir

  The Monuments Men (Edsel)

  Morse, Samuel F. B.

  Mosher, Eliza

  Moul, Margaret

  The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Poe)

  Murphy, William

  Mussolini, Benito

  mystery genre

  Doyle and

  Poe and

  Nana (Zola)

  Napoli, Carolyn

  National Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine

  National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)

  National Health Service

  National Rifle Association (NRA)

  natural history

  naturalism

  natural selection

  nature nurture argument

  NCAA. See National Collegiate Athletic Association

  Neisser, Albert

  Nelson, Horatio

  Newton, Isaac

  New York University (NYU)

  Nobel, Alfred

  Nobel Prize

  for Curie, M.

  for Curie, P.

  Fire, Mello, and RNA interference

  in France

  for immigrants for Loewi

  Nobel laureates

  Nobel monument for

  research on

  NRA. See National Rifle Association

  nuclear chain reactions

  nurture

  NYU. See New York University

  Obama, Barack

  observation

  Ochoa, Severo

  Ohio State University

  Oldenburg, Claes

  Oldenburg, George

  Orban, Viktor

  oxidative stress

  oxygen

  Paget, James

  Paget, Sidney

  Painlevé, Paul

  Palmer’s Woman’s Building

  pandemics

  para-phenylenediamine (PDD)

  Parkman, George

  Patton, George

  PDD. See para-phenylenediamine

  Pearson, Karl

  pernicious anemia

  petunias

  pharmacology

  phenylketonuria

  phlogiston theory

  phocomelic bodily form

  photography

  phylogeny

  physostigmine

  Pietrusza, David

  Pikl, Josef

  Pitres, Jean-Albert

  plague

  Plato

  Player, R. P.

 

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