Table of Contents

Introduction: The Lab That Never Was ; 1. Muller's Net ; 2. Cells and Selves: The Training of Jackob Henle and Theodor Schwann ; 3. Emil Du Bois-Reymond as a Scientific and Literary Creator ; 4. Physiological Bonds: The Training of Hermann von Helmholtz ; 5. Rudolf Virchow's Scientific Politics ; 6. Banned from the Academy: the Mentoring of Robert Remak ; 7. Ernst Haeckel's Evolving Narratives

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"An exceedingly well researched and well-written approach to an intricate narrative."--Doody's
"[Otis'] compelling analysis asks us to think hard about our access to the past and about how our understanding of long-distant events is shaped by the rhetorical work of past scientists in their everyday working lives...While we may never know the 'real' Müller, we come away with a deeper and richer understanding of the many Müller his successors created--and of the making of great scientists more generally."--Science
"An exceedingly well researched and well-written approach to an intricate narrative."--Doody's
"[Otis'] compelling analysis asks us to think hard about our access to the past and about how our understanding of long-distant events is shaped by the rhetorical work of past scientists in their everyday working lives...While we may never know the 'real' Müller, we come away with a deeper and richer understanding of the many Müller his successors created--and of the making of great scientists more generally."--Science