An edition of The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

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An edition of The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

The medusa and the snail

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Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
175

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Cover of: The medusa and the snail
The medusa and the snail: more notes of a biology watcher
1995, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: The Medusa and the Snail
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
September 1980, G K Hall & Co
Paperback - Large Prnt edition
Cover of: The medusa and the snail
The medusa and the snail: more notes of a biology watcher
1980, Bantam Books
in English
Cover of: The medusa and the snail
The medusa and the snail: more notes of a biology watcher
1979, Viking Press
in English

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Table of Contents

The Medusa and the snail
The Tucson Zoo
The youngest and brightest thing around
On magic in medicine
The wonderful mistake
Ponds
To err in human
The selves
The health-care system
On cloning a human being
On etymons and hybrids
The hazards of science
On warts
On transcendental metaworry (TMW)
An apology
On disease
On natural death
A trip abroad
On meddling
On committees
The scrambler in the mind
Notes on punctuation
The deacon's masterpiece
How to fix the premedical curriculum
A brief historical note on medical economics
Why Montaigne is not a bore
On thinking about thinking
On embryology
Medical lessons from history.

Edition Notes

"First published in the United States by The Viking Press 1979"--T.p. verso.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
QH311 .T458 1995, QH311 .T56 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 175 p. ;
Number of pages
175

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21462900M
Internet Archive
medusasnailmoren0000thom_z1y4
ISBN 10
0140243194
LCCN
79001199
OCLC/WorldCat
31801203
Library Thing
142303
Goodreads
317278

First Sentence

"WE'VE NEVER BEEN so self-conscious about our selves as we seem to be these days."

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