The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientists
by By Medawar, P. B and Pyke, David (EDT)
Category: Science , General

Originally published in Great Britain in 1959, this is the first US edition of a collection of essays by the late Nobel Prize-winning (1960, for work in immunology) biologist that range over genetics, evolution, philosophy, creativity, scientific fraud, and attitudes toward death. With a foreword by Lewis Thomas and an introduction by David Pyke. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.