Lessons from the Living Cell: The Limits of Reductionism

An Experimental Biologist Explains Why, Despite All The Hype Surrounding The Genome Project, Science Is Still No Closer To Building A Bridge Between Molecules And Reactions At The Genetic Level And Large-scale Biological Processes. Beyond The Central Dogma -- What Is It That Makes Something Living? -- Uncertainties -- Meanings Of Reductionism -- Epistemon And Eudoxus -- Reductionist Experimental Program -- Real-life Parable -- Lesson -- Making Of A Paradigm -- Experiments -- To Be Parallel Or Nonparallel -- Tests -- Call To Authority. Stephen Rothman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 287-294) And Index.