The Medusa and the Snail by Lewis Thomas

The Medusa and the Snail by Lewis Thomas

Lewis Thomas has been said to be a philosopher who uses the language of biology. His fascinating observations on the quirkiness of the world's infinite creations causes listeners to ponder the workings of the cosmos through the most microscopic of life forms. The medusa, a tiny jellyfish that lives on the ventral surface of a sea slug found in the Bay of Naples, becomes a metaphor for eternal issues of life and death as Thomas further extends the exploration of man and his world which he began in The Lives of a Cell. Among the treasures in this magnificent book are essays on the human genius for making mistakes, on disease and natural death, on cloning, on warts, and on Montaigne, as well as an assessment of medical science and health care. In these essays and others, Thomas once again conveys his observations of the scientific world in his eloquent prose marked by wonder and wit.

Lewis Thomas was born in New York in 1913 and died in 1993. In 1937, he graduated from Princeton with a bachelor's degree and a doctorate in medicine. He went on to become a professor of pediatric research at the University of Minnesota, chairman of the Departments of Pathology and Medicine at New York University-Bellevue Medical Center and also dean, chairman of the Department of Pathology and dean at Yale Medical School, and president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The Lives of a Cell, his now-classic novel, earned the National Book Prize in 1974.

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ISBN 13	9780670465682
ISBN 10	0670465682
Title	The Medusa and the Snail
Author	Lewis Thomas
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Random House India
Year published	1979-05-21
Number of pages	185
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