The Doctor with Two Heads - Softcover

Gerald Weissmann

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9780679733911: The Doctor with Two Heads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679733914 ISBN 13: 9780679733911

Publisher: Vintage, 1991

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Focuses on how the cultures of both art and science have changed during the last decade, arguing that each has its best chance in a republic of skeptics

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From Library Journal:

Weissman, (medicine, NYU) and author of They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus ( LJ 4/1/87), returns with yet another batch of fine essays. His particular forte is linking medicine to history, art, music, and literature in engaging and clever ways. There is plenty of science here, including essays on Lyme Disease, abortion rights, hospital art, and the use of war metaphors in the "fight" against disease, and plenty of wit as well: an elegant and vivid piece on Medicare, an essay on the dung beetle, and thoughtful work on Wordsworth, Gertrude Stein, and painter Thomas Hart Benton. Literate and often moving, Weissmann's book provides good value: sharp writing on complex subjects, accessible to the lay reader and enjoyable for the expert.
- Mark L. Shelton, Columbus, Ohio
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

This collection includes the circuitous tale of how Weissmann's consideration of epidemics in relation to French political unrest led to his discovery of Lyme disease. In his ``self-consciously erudite essays . . . Weissmann leaps from dung beetles to Swift's Gulliver's Travels , from military metaphors for tissue inflammation to Casablanca ,'' said PW. Illustrated.

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