Toward a history of epistemic things :synthesizing proteins in the test tube /Han-Jorg Rheinberger. --Stanford University Press, 1997. -- (58.23/R469)

Contents

    1.After All: An Epistemology of the Beginning 11
    
    2.Experimental Systems and Epistemic Things 24
    
    3.Out of Cancer Research， 1947-50 38
    
    4.Establishing an In Vitro System of Protein Synthesis， 1949-52 55
    
    5.Reproduction and Difference 74
    
    6.Defining Fractions， 1952-55 84
    
    7.Space of Representation 102
    
    8.The Activation of Amino Acids， 1954-56 114
    
    9.Conjunctures， Hybrids， Bifurcations， Experimental Cultures 133
    
    10.Toward Molecular Biology: The Emergence of Soluble RNA， 1955-58 143
    
    11.Historiality， Narration， and Reflection 176
    
    12.Names Matter: Transfer RNA and Ribosomes， 1958-61 187
    
    13.Play-off: Messenger RNA and the Genetic Code 204
    
    14.Epilogue: Science and Writing 223
    
    15.Glossary 233.
    
    16.Notes 240
    
    17.References 277