The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas’s profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things.  Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores in personal, poetic essays to topics such as computers, germs, language, music, death, insects, and medicine.  Lewis Thomas writes, “Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us.”

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Weight 0.14 kg
Dimensions 1.15 × 13.04 × 19.64 cm
PubliCanadation City/Country

USA
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Paperback
Language

Pages

160
Publisher

Year Published

1978-2-23
Imprint

ISBN 10

0140047433
About The Author

Lewis Thomas was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Medical School, he was the dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine, and the president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute. He wrote regularly in the New England Journal of Medicine, and his essays were published in several collections, including The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, which won two National Book Awards and a Christopher Award, and The Medusa and the Snail, which won the National Book Award in Science. He died in 1993.
Table Of Content

The Lives of a CellThoughts for a CountdownOn Societies as OrganismsA Fear of PheromonesThe Music of This SphereAn Earnest ProposalThe Technology of MedicineVibesCetiThe Long HabitAntaeus in ManhattanThe MBLAutonomyOrganelles as OrganismsGermsYour Very Good HealthSocial TalkInformationDeath in the OpenNatural ScienceNatural ManThe IksComputersThe Planning of ScienceSome BiomythologyOn Various WordsLiving LanguageOn Probability and PossibilityThe World's Biggest MembranesReference Notes

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