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"An exciting, well-researched work, which should appeal to anyone with an interest in the nature and progress of the human race."-American Scientist
Acknowledgments.Introduction.Harvey versus Primrose, Riolan, and the Anatomists: Circulation of the Blood.Galvani versus Volta: Animal Electricity.Semmelweis versus the Viennese Medical Establishment: Childbed Fever.Bernard versus Chemists, Physicians, and Antivivisectionists: Experimental Medicine.Pasteur versus Liebig, Pouchet, and Koch: Fermentation, Spontaneous Generation, and Germ Theory.Golgi versus Ramon y Cajal: The Nerve Network.Freud versus Moll, Breuer, Jung, and Many Others: Psychoanalysis.Sabin versus Salk: The Polio Vaccine.Franklin versus Wilkins: The Structure of DNA.Gallo versus Montagnier: The AIDS War.Epilogue.Notes.Bibliography.Index.