Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher - Couverture souple

Thomas, Lewis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 055325913X ISBN 13 : 9780553259131

Editeur : Bantam Books, 1986

Synopsis

Book by Thomas Lewis

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

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: Bantam Books
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 055325913X
• ISBN 13: 9780553259131
• Reliure: Poche
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible