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Main Title The medusa and the snail : more notes of a biology watcher /
Author Thomas, Lewis,
Publisher Viking Press,
Year Published 1979
OCLC Number 04665568
ISBN 0670465682; 9780670465682
Subjects Biology ; Medicine ; medicines (material) ; Biologie ; Médecine ; Biologie expérimentale
Additional Subjects Biology--Addresses, essays, lectures ; Medicine--Addresses, essays, lectures
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://www.cornerstonesofscience.org/
Holdings
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EKBM  QH311.T56 1979 Research Triangle Park Library/RTP, NC 08/31/2011
Collation x, 175 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Notes
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. Includes material on warts, DNA, cloning, and medical economics.