Translation of: Vilken kamp för att undslippa.
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Unpublished Sources 329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.
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