The medusa and the snail
Subtitle: more notes of a biology watcher
By: Lewis Thomas.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Biology; Medicine
Notes: "First published in the United States by The Viking Press 1979"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: The Medusa and the snail; title: The Tucson Zoo; title: The youngest and brightest thing around; title: On magic in medicine; title: The wonderful mistake; title: Ponds; title: To err in human; title: The selves; title: The health-care system; title: On cloning a human being; title: On etymons and hybrids; title: The hazards of science; title: On warts; title: On transcendental metaworry (TMW); title: An apology; title: On disease; title: On natural death; title: A trip abroad; title: On meddling; title: On committees; title: The scrambler in the mind; title: Notes on punctuation; title: The deacon's masterpiece; title: How to fix the premedical curriculum; title: A brief historical note on medical economics; title: Why Montaigne is not a bore; title: On thinking about thinking; title: On embryology; title: Medical lessons from history.