TY - BOOK AU - Söderqvist,Thomas AU - Jerne,Niels Kaj ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Science as autobiography: the troubled life of Niels Jerne AV - QR180.72.J47 S6313 2003eb U1 - 616.07/9/092B 21 PY - 2003/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Jerne, Niels Kaj. KW - Immunologists KW - Denmark KW - Biography KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Translation of: Vilken kamp för att undslippa; Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-350) and index; Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments ix --A Note on the Translation xiii --Introduction: A Scientist in His Life's Project xv --PART I: The Making of a Romantic Character (1911-1947) 1 --1. "I Have Never in My Life Felt I Belonged in the Place Where I Lived" 3 --2. "Stylistically, I'm Best at Irony" 16 --3. "I Wanted to Study Something That Couldn't Be Used" 29 --4. "I Have the Feeling That Everything Around Me Is Enveloped in a Mist" 39 --5. "When I Look at Other Scientists None of Them Have Wasted as Many Years as I Have" 52 --6. "Now I Think Nobody Can Keep Me from Becoming a Doctor" 63 --7. "To Be Able to Let Nature Reflect in the Depths of My Own Soul" 75 --8. "I Am Branded with Infidelity, and See That Open-Eyed" 88 9. "Letters Are a Spiritual Spiderweb in Which You Snare the Dreaming Soul of Woman" 96 --Part II: The Making of the Selection Theory (1947-1954) 109 --10. "The Happiness of Feeling Superior to a Lot of People" 111 --11. "I Think the Work Has Principal Application to Immunology" 124 --12. "Antibody This, Antibody That, They Weren't Really Much Interested" 133 --13. "These People Don't Know What They're Doing" 144 --14. "I Suppose I Should Do Something, Maybe an Experiment or Something" 156 --Parabasis: The Selection Theory as a Personal Confession 173 --Part III: A Man, His Theory, and His Network (1954-1994) 191 --15. "My Hopes and Failures Are Within Myself" 193 --16. "This Theory Hadn't Made Much of a Stir, So Now, What Was I to Do?" 209 --17. "I'd Better Make Sure I Learn a Little about Immunology" 217 --18. "Finally, My Precious, I Have to Be Brilliant and Make Antibodies" 233 --19. "Like a Log Coming Slowly to the Surface of a Lake" 249 --20. "I Still Think That My Original Natural Selection Theory Was Better" 267 --21. "Immunology Is for Me Becoming a Mostly Philosophical Subject" 278 --Epilogue: "What Struggle to Escape" 292 --Abbreviations Used in Notes 297 --Notes 299 --Unpublished Sources 329 --Bibliography 331 --Index 351; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10170020 ER -