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

LEWIS THOMAS

Softcover

ISBN 10: 055313406X ISBN 13: 9780553134063

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1980

Synopsis

The Medusa And The Snail

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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.

Synopsis:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 055313406X
• ISBN 13: 9780553134063
• Binding: Paperback