The Same and Not the Same (Paperback)

Part One: Identity—the Central Problem
1. Lives of the Twins
2. What Are You?
3. Whirligigs
4. Fighting Reductionism
5. The Fish, the Worm, and the Molecule
6. Telling Them Apart
7. Isomerism
8. Are There Two Identical Molecules?
9. Handshakes in the Dark
10. Molecular Mimicry
Part Two: The Way It Is Told
11. The Chemical Article
12. And How It Came to Be That Way
13. Beneath the Surface
14. The Semiotics of Chemistry
15. What DOES That Molecule Look Like?
16. Representation and Reality
17. Struggles
18. The Id Will Out
Part Three: Making Molecules
19. Creation and Discovery
20. In Praise of Synthesis
21. Cubane, and the Art of Making It
22. The Aganippe Fountain
23. Natural/Unnatural
24. Out to Lunch
25. Why We Prefer the Natural
26. Janus and Nonlinearity
Part Four: When Something is Wrong
27. Thalidomide
28. The Social Responsibility of Scientists
Part Five: How, Just Exactly, Does it Happen?
29. Mechanism
30. The Salieri Syndrome
31. Static/Dynamic
32. Equilibrium and Perturbing It
Part Six: A Life in Chemistry
33. Fritz Haber
Part Seven: That Certain Magic
34. Catalyst!
35. Three Ways
36. Carboxypeptidase
Part Eight: Value, Harm, and Democracy
37. Tyrian Purple, Woad, and Indigo
38. Chemistry and Industry
39. Athens
40. The Democratizing Nature of Chemistry
41. Environmental Concerns
42. Science and Technology in Classical Democracy
43. Anti-Plato; or, Why Scientists (or Engineers) Shouldn't Run the World
44. A Response to Worries About the Environment
45. Chemistry, Education, and Democracy
Part Nine: The Adventures of a Diatomic
46. C2 In All Its Guises
Part Ten: The Dualities That Enliven
47. Creation Is Hard Work
48. Missing
49. An Attribute of the Devil
50. Chemistry Tense, Full of Life?
51. Cheiron