Essays discuss the potential consequences of reproductive technologies, the legal, technical, and ethical issues raised by genetic engineering and the benefits of bio-technology

The Manipulation of Life (Nobel Conference)

Politics & Social Sciences

Nobel Conference 1983 (Gustavus Adolphus College)

Thomas. Lewis

Philosophy

Harpercollins

Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores in personal, poetic essays to topics such as computers, germs, language, music, death, insects, and medicine. Lewis Thomas writes, "Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us."

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin??Books

Continuing the exploration of humanity and its world he began in The Lives of a Cell, the acclaimed scientist examines disease and natural death, cloning, making mistakes, and other timely topics with his trademark wonder and wit. Reprint.

The Medusa And The Snail - More Notes Of A Biology Watcher

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Bantam]

Essays discuss personality disorders, breast cancer, the behavior of tortoises, the Star Wars project, attitudes toward nuclear war, and the political situations in Nicaragua and Poland

Granta 16: Science

Viking Pr

One of the best writiers of short essays in English.--Newsweek

Et Cetera, et Cetera: Notes of a Word-Watcher

History & Criticism

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.

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

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Regional & International

Penguin Publishing Group

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.

The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

This magnificent collection of essays by scientist and National Book Award-winning writer Lewis Thomas remains startlingly relevant for today’s world. Luminous, witty, and provocative, the essays address such topics as “The Attic of the Brain,” “Falsity and Failure,” “Altruism,” and the effects the federal government’s virtual abandonment of support for basic scientific research will have on medicine and science. Profoundly and powerfully, Thomas questions the folly of nuclear weaponry, showing that the brainpower and money spent on this endeavor are needed much more urgently for the basic science we have abandoned—and that even medicine’s most advanced procedures would be useless or insufficient in the face of the smallest nuclear detonation. And in the title essay, he addresses himself with terrifying poignancy to the question of what it is like to be young in the nuclear age. “If Wordsworth had gone to medical school, he might have produced something very like the essays of Lewis Thomas.”—TIME “No one better exemplifies what modern medicine can be than Lewis Thomas.”—The New York Times Book Review

Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony

Religion & Spirituality

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.

The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher

Medical Books

Medicine

Oxford Univ. Pr.

The author approaches the hidden relationships to be found in the world of biological science in an unusual way. He examines the issues of life and death and some of the topics in between, including such diverse fields as bacteria, DNA, computers, insects, health care, cloning, language, pain, warts, embryos and the workings of the brain.

The Wonderful Mistake: Notes of a Biology Watcher Incorporating the Lives of a Cell and the Medusa and the Snail

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