Contents
1. Introduction
2. Failing to Define Failure
3. Fail Better: Advice from Samuel Beckett
4. The Scientific Basis of Failure
5. The Unreasonable Success of Failure
6. The Integrity of Failure
7. Teaching Failure
8. The Arc of Failure
9. The Scientific Method of Failure
10. Failure in the Clinic
11. How to Love Your Data When It’s Wrong: Negative Results
12. Philosopher of Failure
13. Funding Failure
14. A Plurality of Failures
15. CODA
Notes
Index