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The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
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A Pulitzer Prize FinalistThe medusa is a tiny jellyfish that lives on the ventral surface of a sea slug found in the Bay of Naples. Readers will find themselves caught up in the fate of the medusa and the snail as a metaphor for eternal issues of life and death as Lewis Thomas further extends the exploration of man and his world begun in The Lives of a Cell. Among the treasures in this magnificent book are essays on the human genius for making mistakes, on disease and natural death, on cloning, on warts, and on Montaigne, as well as an assessment of medical science and health care. In these essays and others, Thomas once again conveys his observations of the scientific world in prose marked by wonder and wit.
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| Weight | 0.15 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.02 × 12.96 × 19.56 cm |
| PubliCanadation City/Country | USA |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 160 |
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| Year Published | 1995-1-1 |
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| ISBN 10 | 0140243194 |
| 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. |
Winner of a National Book AwardFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize"( The Medusa and the Snail) remains among the finest, most insightful writing I have ever savored." — Maria Popova"Thomas' unexpected turns of phrase and love of words and their origins is revealed again and again…Read Thomas for his estimable style—often disarmingly simple, even colloquial—and the wit and insight into life and medicine his writing embodies." — Kirkus Reviews |
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| Table Of Content | The Medusa and the SnailThe Tucson ZooThe Youngest and Brightest Thing AroundOn Magic in MedicineThe Wonderful MistakePondsTo Err Is HumanThe SelvesThe Health-Care SystemOn Cloning a Human BeingOn Etymons and HybridsThe Hazards of ScienceOn WartsOn Transcendental Metaworry (TMW)An ApologyOn DiseaseOn Natural DeathA Trip AbroadOn MeddlingOn CommitteesThe Scrambler in the MindNotes on PunctuationThe Deacon's MasterpieceHow to Fix the Premedical CurriculumA Brief Historical Note on Medical EconomicsWhy Montaigne Is Not a BoreOn Thinking About ThinkingOn EmbryologyMedical Lessons from History |
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