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The medusa and the snail : more notes of a biology watcher
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- Summary
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Includes material on warts, DNA, cloning, and medical economics.
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- Creator
- Lewis Thomas
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Viking Press, [1979]
- ©1979
- Physical Details
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- x, 175 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 0670465682, 9780670465682
- OCLC
- ocm04665568, ocm04665568
- The Medusa and the snail -- The Tucson Zoo -- The youngest and brightest thing around -- On magic in medicine -- The wonderful mistake -- Ponds -- To err is 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