The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher - Hardcover
The twenty-nine essays cover topics ranging from medicine to Montaigne, but through them all runs the common thread of an appreciation for the wonder of nature and man.
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Lewis Thomas was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Medical School, he was the dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine, and the president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute. He wrote regularly in the New England Journal of Medicine, and his essays were published in several collections, including The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, which won two National Book Awards and a Christopher Award, and The Medusa and the Snail, which won the National Book Award in Science. He died in 1993.
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- PublisherAllen Lane
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0713913495
- ISBN 13 9780713913491
- BindingHardcover
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