{"title":"Lewis Thomas","description":"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.","products":[{"product_id":"late-night-thoughts-on-listening-to-mahlers-ninth-symphony-paperback","title":"Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis magnificent collection of essays by scientist and National Book Award-winning writer Lewis Thomas remains startlingly relevant for today's world. Luminous, witty, and provocative, the essays address such topics as \"The Attic of the Brain,\" \"Falsity and Failure,\" \"Altruism,\" and the effects the federal government's virtual abandonment of support for basic scientific research will have on medicine and science. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProfoundly and powerfully, Thomas questions the folly of nuclear weaponry, showing that the brainpower and money spent on this endeavor are needed much more urgently for the basic science we have abandoned--and that even medicine's most advanced procedures would be useless or insufficient in the face of the smallest nuclear detonation. And in the title essay, he addresses himself with terrifying poignancy to the question of what it is like to be young in the nuclear age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"If Wordsworth had gone to medical school, he might have produced something very like the essays of Lewis Thomas.\"--\u003ci\u003eTIME\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"No one better exemplifies what modern medicine can be than Lewis Thomas.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376717103327,"sku":"9780140243284","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/r-fMe40xg99780140243284.webp?v=1789221771"},{"product_id":"the-medusa-and-the-snail-more-notes-of-a-biology-watcher-paperback","title":"The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Pulitzer Prize Finalist \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this captivating exploration of the natural world, acclaimed author Lewis Thomas takes readers on a compelling journey into the intricacies of life and mortality.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe medusa is a tiny jellyfish that lives on the ventral surface of a sea slug found in the Bay of Naples. Readers will find themselves caught up in the fate of the medusa and the snail as a metaphor for eternal issues of life and death as Lewis Thomas further extends the exploration of man and his world begun in \u003ci\u003eThe Lives of a Cell\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmong the treasures in this magnificent book are essays on the human genius for making mistakes, on disease and natural death, on cloning, on warts, and on Montaigne, as well as an assessment of medical science and health care. In these essays and others, Thomas once again conveys his observations of the scientific world in prose marked by wonder and wit.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51379106218207,"sku":"9780140243192","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VOZHF_FXNY9780140243192.webp?v=1789268580"},{"product_id":"the-youngest-science-notes-of-a-medicine-watcher-paperback","title":"The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1920s when he watched his father, a general practitioner who made housecalls and wrote his prescriptions in Latin, to his days in medical school and beyond, Lewis Thomas saw medicine evolve from an art into a sophisticated science. \u003ci\u003eThe Youngest Science\u003c\/i\u003e is Dr. Thomas's account of his life in the medical profession and an inquiry into what medicine is all about--the youngest science, but one rich in possibility and promise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe chronicles his training in Boston and New York, his war career in the South Pacific, his most impassioned research projects, his work as an administrator in hospitals and medical schools, and even his experiences as a patient. Along the way, Thomas explores the complex relationships between research and practice, between words and meanings, between human error and human accomplishment, More than a magnificent autobiography, \u003ci\u003eThe Youngest Science\u003c\/i\u003e is also a celebration and a warning--about the nature of medicine and about the future life of our planet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51379424952543,"sku":"9780140243277","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ojjMJ6bk4i9780140243277.webp?v=1789272493"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/lewis-thomas.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}