The 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…mehr
The 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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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The Medusa and the Snail The Tucson Zoo The Youngest and Brightest Thing Around On Magic in Medicine The Wonderful Mistake Ponds To Err Is Human The Selves The Health-Care System On Cloning a Human Being On Etymons and Hybrids The Hazards of Science On Warts On Transcendental Metaworry (TMW) An Apology On Disease On Natural Death A Trip Abroad On Meddling On Committees The Scrambler in the Mind Notes on Punctuation The Deacon's Masterpiece How to Fix the Premedical Curriculum A Brief Historical Note on Medical Economics Why Montaigne Is Not a Bore On Thinking About Thinking On Embryology Medical Lessons from History
The Medusa and the Snail The Tucson Zoo The Youngest and Brightest Thing Around On Magic in Medicine The Wonderful Mistake Ponds To Err Is Human The Selves The Health-Care System On Cloning a Human Being On Etymons and Hybrids The Hazards of Science On Warts On Transcendental Metaworry (TMW) An Apology On Disease On Natural Death A Trip Abroad On Meddling On Committees The Scrambler in the Mind Notes on Punctuation The Deacon's Masterpiece How to Fix the Premedical Curriculum A Brief Historical Note on Medical Economics Why Montaigne Is Not a Bore On Thinking About Thinking On Embryology Medical Lessons from History
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