Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

1. Orchestral Relationships and Soil Microbes

French Roots and Early Influences

Approaching a Career in Soil Science

Entering the New Field of Soil Microbiology

2. Domesticating Microbes

A Medical Gamble

Life at the Institute

Discovering Antibiotics, or Life Impedes Life

Laboratory Interludes

Adaptive Enzymes as Tools

Launching the Antibiotic Era

Following the Momentous Discovery

The Hectic Glow of Success

Developing a Wartime Vaccine against Dysentery

3. Tuberculosis and Dilemmas of Modern Medicine

Microbial Resistance to Antibiotics

Establishing a Tuberculosis Laboratory

Antibacterial Agents against Tuberculosis

Rapid and Dispersed Growth of Mycobacteria in Culture

Ecological Facets of Virulence

Immunity to Tuberculosis

4. Mirage of Health: Infection versus Disease

Planting Trees, Planting Ideas

A New Rockefeller Environment and New Experimental Medicine

In the Shadow of Pasteur

Microenvironments of Inflammation

Ecology of Infection versus Disease

Turning from Disease to Health

Ecology of Human Health

Pursue Well-fare not Warfare

5. Toward a Science of Human Nature

Laboratory Research in Environmental Biomedicine

Ideas for a Science of Human Nature

Human Ecology: An Interruption

Taking Another Direction

6. Health as Creative Adaptation

A Visible Ecologist

A Despairing Optimist Emerges

A New Environmental Attitude

Concluding Visions of a Wise Ecologist

Envoi

Acknowledgments

APPENDIX I. Events of René Dubos’ Life

APPENDIX II. Books, Monographs, and Pamphlets by René Dubos (in chronological order)

Notes

Index