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4. For each man's retelling of the incident see: Pauling, L. (1970) Fifty years of progress in structures of chemical and molecular biology. Daedalus 99, pp. 988–1015, 1011; William B. Castle to Linus Pauling, 22 May 1963, Science 6.007.16, Correspondence re: Pauling's recollections of his sickle cell anemia research, Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers, Oregon State University Special Collections. For other renditions of the oft-told story; see: Lockard Conley, C. (1980) Sickle cell anemia – the first molecular disease. In Blood, Pure and Eloquent: A Story of Discovery, of People, and of Ideas (Vol. 339) (Wintrobe, M., ed.), pp. 318–371, New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company; Goertzel, T.G. and Goertzel, B. (1995) Linus Pauling: A Life in Science and Politics, p. 90, New York: Basic Books,; Hager, T. (1995) Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling, pp. 286–287, New York: Simon & Schuster; Judson, H.F. (1979) The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology, p. 302, New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; Kay, L. (1993) Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology, p. 257, New York: Oxford University Press; Strasser, B. (2001) Sickle cell anemia. In Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker (Vol. 128) (Mead, C., Hager, T., eds), pp. 127–133, Corvallis: Oregon State University Press; Wailoo, K. (1997) Drawing Blood: Technology, and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America, pp. 156–157, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. For a re-evaluation of the incident discussed as a disciplinary history of research into sickle cell anemia, see: Feldman, S.D. and Tauber, A.I. (1997) Sickle cell anemia: reexamining the first ‘molecular disease’. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 71, pp. 623–650
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