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    History and Nature of Science

    Module
      Page
      Type

    Aspirin Adventures
      Aspirin Detectives
      paper activity
      Aspirin Intrigue
      reading
      Aspirin Quiz
      paper activity
      Before Aspirin
      reading
      Due Credit for Arthur Eichengrün
      reading
      Felix Hoffmann
      reading
      A Festival of Analgesics
      reading
      Hoffmann, We Have a Problem
      reading
      The Important Lesson
      reading
      Real or Phony?
      lab activity
      Salsa Analgesica
      reading
      Timeline of Discovery
      reading

    Magic Bullets: Chemistry vs. Cancer
      Cancer Chemotherapy:
      A Chemical Needle in a Haystack
      reading
      Cancer Chemotherapy: A Timeline
      reading
      Cancer Detectives: A Class Simulation
      lab activity
      The Gene Factor—Gene BRCA1
      reading
      The Gene Factor—Genetics: A Timeline
      reading
      The Gene Factor—Mary-Claire King: Prevention Pioneer
      reading
      George Hitchings: Pharmaceutical Achiever
      reading
      Gertrude Belle Elion: a Lifeline
      reading
      In a Puff of Smoke—The Surgeon Genereal's Report
      reading
      In a Puff of Smoke—Tobacco Road: History
      reading
      Methods of Treatment: Choosing a Weapon
      reading
      Michael B. Sporn: Prevention Pioneer
      reading
      Paul Ehrlich: Pharmaceutical Achiever
      reading
      Sun and Clouds: The Sun in History
      reading
      You Become What You Eat—
      Lee Wattenberg: Prevention Pioneer
      reading

    Antibiotics in Action
      Alexander Fleming: Pharmaceutical Achiever
      reading
      Brewing for Millennia: Fermentation in History
      reading
      Bugs Fighting Back: Basics of Bacterial Resistance
      reading
      Culturing Bacteria: Isolation and Identification
      lab activity
      Digging for a Cure
      reading
      Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: Pharmaceutical Achiever
      reading
      Elizabeth Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown:
      Pharmaceutical Achievers
      reading
      Enzyme Basics: Science and History
      reading
      Gallons of Prevention Are Worth 300 mg of Cure
      reading
      Germs from Nowhere: Spontaneous Generation
      reading
      Honey—Yes, UFOs—No
      reading
      Howard Florey and Ernst Chain: Pharmaceutical Achievers
      reading
      Medicine from Dirt: Isolating Actinomycetes
      lab activity
      Mold is for Wimps: Antibiotics from Big Scary Reptiles
      reading
      Name That Actinomycete: Isolating Soil Organisms
      lab activity
      Observing Cells: Using Stains
      lab activity
      Of Rabbits and Mycology
      reading
      Salt: The First Antibiotic
      reading
      Spallanzani and Pasteur: Re-creating Their Experiments
      lab activity
      X-Ray Vision: Crystallography
      simulation activity


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