The Medusa and the Snail

Name: The Medusa and the Snail
Author: Lewis Thomas

by Lewis Thomas

Essays on nature, science, and human experience from physician-naturalist perspective

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Lewis Thomas

Thomas's essays in The Lives of a Cell brought a physician's wonder and a poet's sensibility to cell biology and the philosophy of medicine. He was the most elegant essayist science writing has produced.

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