Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) - Hardcover
A third collection of the physician-writer's essays explores the government's abandonment of support for scientific research, the folly of nuclear weaponry, and other topics of significance
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About the Author:
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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- PublisherG K Hall & Co
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0816137218
- ISBN 13 9780816137213
- BindingHardcover
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