Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Part I A "Disease of Civilization" (Late Nineteenth Century-1918)
1 "A Chemical Laboratory of the Most Amazing Kind" 3
2 "The Great Unsolved Problem" 16
3 Magic Bullets 33
4 Glucose, Cancer, and the Crown Prince 43
5 "Slaves of the Light" 54
Part II "The Meaning of Life Disappears" (1919-1945)
6 The Warburg Effect 71
7 The Emperor of Dahlem 90
8 "The Eternal Jew" 113
9 "The Herb Garden" of Dachau 137
10 The Age of Koch 152
11 "I Refused to Intervene" 165
Part III The Seed and the Soil (Postwar)
12 Coming to America 181
13 Two Engines 195
14 "Strange New Creatures of Our Own Making" 207
15 The Prime Cause of Cancer 220
16 Cancer and Diet 230
Part IV Pure, White, and Deadly (The Twenty-First Century)
17 Lost and Found 243
18 The Metabolism Revival 260
19 Diabetes and Cancer 273
20 The Insulin Hypothesis 288
21 Sugar 302
22 The Evil Twin 314
Postscript 331
Acknowledgments 333
Notes 337
Suggestions for Further Reading 369
Illustration Credits 371
Index 373