Styles of Scientific Thought

Chapter 1: Getting Started: the Argument, Method, and Context
1.1 An Overview of the Argument
1.2 Styles of Thought
1.3 The Revolution in Morphology
1.4 The Response to Specialization
1.5 The Early Days of Mendelism in Germany
Part 1: The Peculiarities of German Genetics
Chapter 2: The Genetics of Development
2.1 Developmental Genetics in Germany during the 1920s
2.2 Cytoplasmic Inheritance
2.3 In Search of Simplicity: George Beadle's Approach to Physiological Genetics
2.4 Conclusion
Chapter 3: Genetics and the Evolutionary Process
3.1 The Debate over Natural Selection in Interwar Germany
3.2 The Implications of Cytoplasmic Inheritance for Evolutionary Theory
3.3 The Controversy over Dauermodifications
3.4 The Relation between the Plasmon and Dauermodifications
3.5 Conclusion
Chapter 4: Demarcating the Discipline: Germany versus the United States
4.1 Patterns of Growth in Higher Education and Research
4.2 The Effect of University Structure upon Specialization
4.3 Conclusion
Chapter 5: Shifting Focus
Part 2: Styles of Thought within the German Genetics Community
Chapter 6: Mapping the German Genetics Community
6.1 Research Programs
6.2 Forms of Organization
6.3 Patterns of Funding
6.4 Institutional Developments after 1933
6.5 Conclusion
Chapter 7: Imputing Styles of Thought
7.1 Portraits in Contrast: Alfred Kuhn and Erwin Baur
7.2 Imputing Styles of Thought
7.3 Differences of Political Outlook
7.4 Conclusion
Chapter 8: Mandarins Confront Modernization
8.1 Bildung as Ideology
8.2 Modernization Diversifies the Professoriate
8.3 The Politics of the Professoriate
8.4 Integrating Institutional and Societal Explanations
8.5 Conclusion
Chapter 9: The Politics of Nuclear-Cytoplasmic Relations
9.1 Critics of the Plasmon Theory
9.2 Revisionist Conceptions of the Plasmon
9.3 Models of Cellular Order
9.4 The Cell as Political Microcosm
9.5 Conclusion, Conclusion