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The medusa and the snail : more notes of a biology watcher / Lewis Thomas. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, (c)1995.Description: x, 175 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780140243192
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QH311
  • QH311.T458.M438 1995
Available additional physical forms:
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Contents:
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.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction QH311.T458 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001534706

"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.

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