This classic is the first popular science book I can remember reading as a child, so I have a special nostalgic feeling for it. Microbe Hunters recounts, in an alarmingly bubbly tone replete with exclamation marks, the exploits of the early ... six years!" De Kruif never shies away from detailing the egotism, hypocrisy, vanity, contentiousness, religious mania, and other character flaws of the microbe hunters -- which effectively makes the point that science, like many other forms of modern human achievement, may be as much the product of neurosis as of joy. He shows that some of his heroes ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate