Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Defining the Organism -- The Organism as a Chinese Box -- "The Organism as a Whole" -- Compromising the Chromosomes -- More Parts to the Whole -- Defending the Chromosomes -- Chapter 2. Constructing Heredity -- Disciplines in Conflict -- Genotype/Phenotype: A Discursive Tactic -- The Rise of American Genetics and the Determinist Gene -- Chapter 3. Challenging the Nuclear Monopoly of the Cell in Germany -- The Conditions for the Possibility -- The Gradual Disappearance of Victor Jollos -- "Subsumed Under a Single Formula": The Case of Richard Goldschmidt -- Hans Spemann: The Magnetic Order of Cells -- Assembling the Plasmon -- "The Scotch Verdict, 'Not Proven' " -- Chapter 4. T. M. Sonneborn: Making Plasmagenes in America -- Learning to Dissent -- Plasmagene Theory -- "I Always Liked Unorthodoxy" -- The Way to Power -- From Plasmagenes to Human Serfdom -- Chapter 5. Boris Ephrussi and the Birth of Genetics in France -- The Neo-Lamarckian Hegemony -- From Embryology to Physiological Genetics -- The Competitive Strategy of French Genetics -- "Still Threatened with Vertigo" -- Position Effect -- "A Common Language and a Common Ideology" -- Accounting for Mendelian Error -- Chapter 6. The Cold War in Genetics -- Propaganda in America -- Ultra-conservative Anti-genetics in France -- Chapter 7. Problems with "Master Molecules" -- Opposing "Dictatorial Elements": Democratic Steady States -- "The Cell as an Empire": Cytoplasmic DNA -- Structural Guidance: "A Virus is Far from a Cell" -- Chapter 8. Patterns of Power -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.