The Doctor With Two Heads: Essays on Art and Science - Hardcover

9780394578330: The Doctor With Two Heads: Essays on Art and Science
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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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In the best of these self-consciously erudite essays, Weissmann ( The Woods Hole Cantata ) visits Daumier's old studio overlooking the Seine. The river, once a public bath and sewer, leads the author to consider epidemics in relation to French political unrest, then catapults him to the discovery of Lyme disease. His associative method is less successful in other pieces, for example, when he compares American modernist painting to U.S. biomedical science, or argues that Gertrude Stein (at age 23, a student at Woods Hole biology lab) modeled her literary experiments on the work of mechanistic biologist Jacques Loeb. A physician and professor at NYU Medical Center, Weissmann leaps from dung beetles to Swift's Gulliver Travels , from military metaphors for tissue inflammation to Casablanca , in 14 circuitous essays that encompass the Titanic , Wordsworth, anti-fascist resistance under Mussolini and Vichy France. Illustrated.
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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
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  • PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
  • Publication date1990
  • ISBN 10 0394578333
  • ISBN 13 9780394578330
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages225
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