Brackett believes that many
scientists have become too focused and specialized and miss out on opportunities of a lifetime because they are not willing to give up a
bench job for a desk job, or
leave a field job for a management position.
Dubos was one of our founding fathers, present at the creation, and the first part of his essay traces his sometimes - painful steps from
bench scientist as a bacteriologist to someone profoundly focused on the human condition and the ways that the world that humans inherit, alter and
leave behind shape human health, not only in the narrow sense of healthy people but in the larger sense of societal health and well - being.