Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony by Lewis Thomas
This magnificent collection of essays by scientist and National Book Award-winning writer Lewis Thomas remains startlingly relevant for today's world. Luminous, witty, and provocative, the essays address such topics as The Attic of the Brain, Falsity and Failure, Altruism, and the effects the federal government's virtual abandonment of support for basic scientific research will have on medicine and science. Profoundly and powerfully, Thomas questions the folly of nuclear weaponry, showing that the brainpower and money spent on this endeavor are needed much more urgently for the basic science we have abandoned--and that even medicine's most advanced procedures would be useless or insufficient in the face of the smallest nuclear detonation. And in the title essay, he addresses himself with terrifying poignancy to the question of what it is like to be young in the nuclear age. If Wordsworth had gone to medical school, he might have produced something very like the essays of Lewis Thomas.--TIMENo one better exemplifies what modern medicine can be than Lewis Thomas.--The New York Times Book Review
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 | 9780670703906 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670703907 |
| Title | Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony |
| Author | Lewis Thomas |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Viking Books |
| Year published | 1984-01-26 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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