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In this retrospective of Gerald Weissmann's best-known essays, the reader is treated to his unique perspective on what C. P. Snow once dubbed "the Two Cultures"-art and science. In Darwin's Audubon, Weissmann examines the powerful influence that the two exert over one another and how they have helped each other evolve. From listening to the scientists who gather ever year to sing at the Woods Hole Cantata Consort to looking at the influence of Audubon's watercolors on Darwin's On the Origin of Species; from comparing William Carlos Williams's poetry to his unedited case books to watching Oliver Wendell Holmes grow as doctor and as poet, Weissmann weaves a rich tapestry that will delight fans and newcomers alike.

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Gerald Weissmann, M.D., is Professor of Medicine and director of the Biotechnology Center at New York University School of Medicine. He has received the Lila Gruber Award for Cancer Research, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the Allesandro Robecchi Prize for Rheumatology.
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As director of the Division of Rheumatology at New York University-Bellevue Hospital, Weissmann (Democracy and DNA) infuses technical medical information throughout the 24 essays in his latest eclectic volume. Most were originally published in specialty magazines such as Hospital Practice and MD. All touch in some manner on ways of bridging the gap between the sciences and the humanities. Weissmann ranges broadly, ruminating on appropriate treatment for homeless mentally ill individuals, on the relationship between Darwin and Audubon, about the three Nobel prizes garnered by the family of Marie Curie (discoverer of radium), about the way Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas spent the war years in occupied France in hiding from the Nazis while protected by a French fascist. He attacks feminist critiques of science and summarizes the history of Lyme disease. Weissmann's prose is at times choppy and his references to poetry and history occasionally forced; nonetheless, these essays demonstrate the working of a considerable intellect. Photos.
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  • ISBN 13 9780738205977
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