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

Thomas, Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140243275 ISBN 13: 9780140243277

Publisher: Penguin, 1995

Synopsis

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.

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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140243275
• ISBN 13: 9780140243277
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288