This is a fascinating collection of personal accounts which is a "must read" for anyone interested in membrane transport or the history of the development of the current picture of membrane transport physiology. This delightful book could serve variously as a history for investigators and historians or as a textbook for advanced students. No biology or medical library should be without it

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Introduction: Membrane Transport in Physiology.- Biological Membranes as Selective Barriers to Diffusion of Molecules.- Membranes, Molecules, Nerves, and People.- Transport Pathways: Water Movement Across Cell Membranes.- Sodium-Potassium Pump.- From Frog Lung to Calcium Pump.- Anion Exchanges and Band 3 Protein.- The Unfinished Story of Secondary Active Transport.- Electrodiffusion in Membranes.- Reflections on Selectivity.- Propagation of Electrical Impulses.- Membrane Transport in Excitation-Contraction Coupling.- From Cell Theory to Cell Connectivity: Experiments in Cell-to-Cell Communication.- Epithelial Transport: Frog Skin as a Model System.- Flow and Diffusion Through Biological Membranes.