| List of Illustrations and Tables | |
| Preface | |
| Ch. 1 | Laboratory Notebooks and the Private Science of Louis Pasteur | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Pasteur in Brief | 22 |
| Ch. 3 | The Emergence of a Scientist: The Discovery of Optical Isomers in the Tartrates | 53 |
| Ch. 4 | From Crystals to Life: Optical Activity, Fermentation, and Life | 90 |
| Ch. 5 | Creating Life in Nineteenth-Century France: Science, Politics, and Religion in the Pasteur-Pouchet Debate over Spontaneous Generation | 110 |
| Ch. 6 | The Secret of Pouilly-le-Fort: Competition and Deception in the Race for the Anthrax Vaccine | 145 |
| Ch. 7 | From Boyhood Encounter to "Private Patients": Pasteur and Rabies before the Vaccine | 177 |
| Ch. 8 | Public Triumphs and Forgotten Critics: The Debate over Pasteur's Early Use of Rabies Vaccines in Human Cases | 206 |
| Ch. 9 | Private Doubts and Ethical Dilemmas: Pasteur, Roux, and the Early Human Trials of Pasteur's Rabies Vaccine | 234 |
| Ch. 10 | The Myth of Pasteur | 259 |
| Appendixes | 279 |
| Author's Note on the Notes and Sources | 305 |
| Notes to the Chapters | 309 |
| Acknowledgments | 343 |
| Bibliography | 345 |
| Index | 367 |
