Thomas, Lewis

The medusa and the snail : more notes of a biology watcher / Lewis Thomas - Toronto : Bantam Books, 1980 - 146 p.

1. The Medusa and the Snail
2. The Tucson Zoo
3. The Youngest and Brightest Thing Around
4. On Magic in Medicine
5. The Wonderful Mistake
6. Ponds
7. To Err Is Human
8. The Selves
9. The Health-Care System
10. On Cloning a Human Being
11. On Etymons and Hybrids
12. The Hazards of Science
13. On Warts
14. On Transcendental Metaworry (TMW)
15. An Apology
16. On Disease
17. On Natural Death
18. A Trip Abroad
19. On Meddling
20. On Committees
21. The Scrambler in the Mind
22. Notes on Punctuation
23. The Deacon's Masterpiece
24. How to Fix the Premedical Curriculum
25. A Brief Historical Note on Medical Economics
26. Why Montaigne Is Not a Bore
27. On Thinking About Thinking
28. On Embryology
29. Medical Lessons from History


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Biology--Medicine

574.9 / T3611