The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher

Thomas, Lewis

ISBN 10: 067079533X / ISBN 13: 9780670795338

Published by Viking Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1983

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Title: The Youngest Science: Notes of a ...

Publisher: Viking Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1983

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

The eminent physician-essayist combines an account of his life as a physician, researcher, and administrator with meditations on the practice and promise of medicine

About the Author:

Lewis Thomas was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Medical School, he was the dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine, and the president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute. He wrote regularly in the New England Journal of Medicine, and his essays were published in several collections, including The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, which won two National Book Awards and a Christopher Award, and The Medusa and the Snail, which won the National Book Award in Science. He died in 1993.