Illustrated in black and white. x, 337 pages. 8vo, tan boards, d.w. New York: Plenum Trade, (1998). Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Near fine in near fine dust wrapper.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Darwin's Audubon: Science and the Liberal Imagination

Publisher

Plenum Trade, New York

Publication Date

1998

Language

English

ISBN 10

0306459817

ISBN 13

9780306459818

Binding

hardcover

Condition

near fine

Dust Jacket Condition

near fine

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In this treasure trove of new and best-known essays, Gerald Weissmann ranges freely through subjects as diverse as a cultural history of inflammation, the medical careers of Gertrude Stein and William Carlos Williams, and the Titanic. He is equally at home with Darwin as he is with a suffering homeless patient to whom he ministers with compassion. While in these pages he wages an acutely argued campaign against scientific fraud and facile reasoning, there is nothing righteous or strident in his tone. His writing has a rare brilliance that evokes figures of history and art as vividly as the genius of scientific discovery.

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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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