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| CONTENTS |
| Preface to the Series | xi |
| Acknowledgments | xiii |
| Introduction | 3 |
| PART I |
| HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT |
| 1 | Turin: Royal City and Home Town | 11 |
| 2 | Freethinker, with Misgivings | 18 |
| 3 | Two X Chromosomes in a Victorian Climate | 26 |
| 4 | The Choice | 33 |
| 5 | The Death of My Father | 42 |
| 6 | Medical Student: A Master's Apprentice | 48 |
| 7 | Fellow Students: Friends for Life | 62 |
| PART II |
| THE DIFFICULT YEARS |
| 8 | Premonitions of Trouble | 73 |
| 9 | The Start of the Anti-Semitic Campaign: The Racial Manifesto | 79 |
| 10 | A Private Laboratory à la Robinson Crusoe | 88 |
| 11 | Life in Hiding | 99 |
| 12 | Caring for War Refugees | 106 |
| 13 | The Return to Turin and to Research | 110 |
| PART III |
| A NEW LIFE |
| 14 | A New Continent | 117 |
| 15 | Experimental Neurobiology in the First Half of the Century | 123 |
| 16 | Explorations: The Midwest and the Developing Nervous System | 135 |
| 17 | The Nerve Growth Factor: The Opening of the Saga | 144 |
| 18 | The Fibrillar Halo and Carnival in Rio | 153 |
| 19 | Stan and the NGF | 161 |
| 20 | In Memory of a Friend | 169 |
| PART IV |
| BACK TO MY NATIVE COUNTRY |
| 21 | The Tug of Early Affections | 185 |
| 22 | The Miracle of Maxwell's Demon | 192 |
| 23 | Farewell to a Master -- and to a Father | 202 |
| 24 | Disharmony in a Complex System | 206 |
| 25 | Epilogue: Primo Levi's Message | 212 |
| Notes | 215 |
| Index | 217 |
| Photographs | following 112 |