The medusa and the snail : more notes of a biology watcher /
Thomas, Lewis, 1913-1993.,
The medusa and the snail : more notes of a biology watcher / [print] Lewis Thomas. - New York : Penguin Books, (c)1995. - x, 175 pages ; 20 cm.
"First published in the United States by The Viking Press 1979"--T.p. verso.
The Medusa and the snail -- The Tucson Zoo -- The youngest and brightest thing around -- On magic in medicine -- The wonderful mistake -- Ponds -- To err in 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.
9780140243192
79001199
Biology.
Medicine.
QH311 QH311.T458.M438 1995
The medusa and the snail : more notes of a biology watcher / [print] Lewis Thomas. - New York : Penguin Books, (c)1995. - x, 175 pages ; 20 cm.
"First published in the United States by The Viking Press 1979"--T.p. verso.
The Medusa and the snail -- The Tucson Zoo -- The youngest and brightest thing around -- On magic in medicine -- The wonderful mistake -- Ponds -- To err in 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.
9780140243192
79001199
Biology.
Medicine.
QH311 QH311.T458.M438 1995