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Students of biology learn that Archibald Garrod (1857-1936) advanced the concept of inborn errors of metabolism through brilliant insights into patients with rare genetic diseases. Garrod's two other prescient concepts are often overlooked: (1) the concept of the chemical uniqueness of the individual, which prefigured the modern appreciation of individual predisposition to disease, & (2) the concept of the physician-scientist, which prefigured...

Useful Knowledge: What will it be for the next millennium? In five symposia, members of the Amer. Philosophical Soc. asked this question in April 1999 at the Society's Millennium Meet. Contents: (1) Math & Physical Sciences: The Laws of Nature, Our Concepts of the Cosmos, Progress, Prospects & Mysteries, Math & Computing, Global Warming: Does Science Matter?, & The Molecular Biology of Huntington's Disease, (2): Biological Sci.: Scientists & t...