| Acknowledgments | |
| I | A History of Convictions | 3 |
| II | From First Problems to the Edge of Modernity | 14 |
| III | From the Scientific Attitude to the Universalist Sentiment | 20 |
| IV | From the Scientific Revolution to the Liberal Expectation | 29 |
| V | From Nonliberal Alternatives to the Liberal Reestablishment | 70 |
| VI | From Altruism to Activism | 101 |
| VII | Life-Sciences Liberalism in Abstract and Competition | 114 |
| VIII | Protecting the State | 122 |
| IX | Pursuing the National Political Advantage | 146 |
| X | Aggrandizing the Corporation | 156 |
| XI | Privatizing the Common Inheritance of Humankind | 176 |
| XII | Advancing the Public Health | 194 |
| XIII | Groping in the Light | 213 |
| Notes | 215 |
| Index | 247 |
