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The medusa and the snail : more notes of a biology watcher / Lewis Thomas.
LIBRA QH311 .T56 1979
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Van Pelt Library QH311 .T458m 1979
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Lewis, 1913-1993.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biology.
- Medicine.
- Medical Subjects:
- Biology.
- Medicine.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 175 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking Press, 1979.
- Summary:
- Includes material on warts, DNA, cloning, and medical economics.
- Contents:
- The Medusa and the snail
- The Tucson Zoo
- The youngest and brightest thing around
- On magic in medicine
- The wonderful mistake
- Ponds
- To err is human
- The selves
- The health-care system
- On cloning a human being
- On etymons and hybrids
- The hazards of science
- On warts
- On transcendental metaworry (TMW)
- An apology
- On disease
- On natural death
- A trip abroad
- On meddling
- On committees
- The scrambler in the mind
- Notes on punctuation
- The deacon's masterpiece
- How to fix the premedical curriculum
- A brief historical note on medical economics
- Why Montaigne is not a bore
- On thinking about thinking
- On embryology
- Medical lessons from history.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Thomas, Lewis, 1913-1993. Medusa and the snail.
- ISBN:
- 0670465682 :
- 9780670465682
- OCLC:
- 4665568
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