TY - BOOK AU - Thomas,Lewis TI - The medusa and the snail: more notes of a biology watcher SN - 9780140243192 AV - QH311 PY - 1995/// CY - New York PB - Penguin Books KW - Biology KW - Medicine N1 - "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; 2 ER -