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The Medusa and the Snail : More Notes of a Biology Watcher

By Lewis Thomas

Book information

Publisher
Bantam Books
Year
1980
ISBN
9780553259131, 055325913X, 055313406X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25101688 bytes)
Pages
146\164
Time added
2020-02-10 03:33:44
Biology;Medicine

Description

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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