The lives of a cell : notes of a biology watcher / Lewis Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Lewis, 1913-1993.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology--Philosophy.

Biology.

Physical Description:

153 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 1978.

Summary:

Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and wondrous world of hidden relationships, this provocative book explores in personal, poetic essays to topics such as computers, germs, language, music, death, insects, and medicine. Lewis Thomas writes, "Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us."

Notes:

Essays which appeared in the New England journal of medicine, 1971-73.

Reprint of the ed. published by Viking Press, New York.

Bibliography: pages 149-153.

ISBN:

0140047433

OCLC:

3167931