The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher - Couverture rigide

Thomas, Lewis

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0192177354 ISBN 13 : 9780192177353

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1984

Synopsis

Provenance; presentation bookplate from the Birmingham Medical Institute, being presented by Mrs. Naughton-Dunn. Series; Oxford paperbacks. Physical description; x, 276 p. ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Amity Street -- House calls -- 1911 medicine -- 1933 medicine -- 1937 internship -- Leech, leech, et cetera -- Nurses -- Neurology -- Guam and Okinawa -- Itinerary -- NYU pathology -- NYU Bellevue medicine -- The board of health -- Endotoxin -- Cambridge -- The governance of a university -- Rheumatoid arthritis and mycoplasmas -- MSKCC: the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre -- Olfaction and the tracking mouse -- Illness -- Scabies, scrapie -- Essays and Gaia. Subjects; Thomas, Lewis (1913-1993). 20th Century. Physicians - United States - Biography. Physicians - Personal Narratives. Physicians - Biography. History of Medicine. Genre; Biographies.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

From the 1920s when he watched his father, a general practitioner who made housecalls and wrote his prescriptions in Latin, to his days in medical school and beyond, Lewis Thomas saw medicine evolve from an art into a sophisticated science. The Youngest Science is Dr. Thomas's account of his life in the medical profession and an inquiry into what medicine is all about--the youngest science, but one rich in possibility and promise.

He chronicles his training in Boston and New York, his war career in the South Pacific, his most impassioned research projects, his work as an administrator in hospitals and medical schools, and even his experiences as a patient. Along the way, Thomas explores the complex relationships between research and practice, between words and meanings, between human error and human accomplishment, More than a magnificent autobiography, The Youngest Science is also a celebration and a warning--about the nature of medicine and about the future life of our planet.

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0192177354
• ISBN 13: 9780192177353
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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