Title A long line of cells : collected essays / Lewis Thomas.

Imprint

New York : Book-of-th-Month Club, 1990.

Location	Call Number	Status
Monograph Collection	Q175.3 .T46 1990	AVAILABLE

Description	xix, 361 pages ; 25 cm
Content	text txt
Media	unmediated n
Carrier	volume nc
Note	Includes all of the essays from Thomas's books 'The lives of a cell, ' 'The medusa and the snail, ' and 'Late night thoughts on listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony.'
Contents	1. The lives of cells -- 2. Thoughts for a countdown -- 3. On societies as organisms -- 4. A fear of pheromones -- 5. The music of this sphere -- 6. An earnest proposal -- 7. The technology of medicine -- 8. Vibes -- 9. Ceti -- 10. The long habit -- 11. Antaeus in Manhattan -- 12. The MBL -- 13. Autonomy -- 14. Organelles as organisms -- 15. Germs -- 16. Your very good health -- 17. Social talk -- 18. Information -- 19. Death in the open -- 20. Natural science -- 21. Natural man -- 22. The Iks -- 23. Computers -- 24. The planning of science -- 25. Some biomythology -- 26. On various words -- 27. Living language -- 28. On probability and possibility -- 29. The world's biggest membrane -- 30. The medusa and the snail -- 31. The Tucson Zoo -- 32. The youngest and brightest thing around -- 33. On magic in medicine -- 34. The wonderful mistake -- 35. Ponds -- 36. To err is human -- 37. The selves -- 38. The health-care system -- 39. On cloning a human being -- 40. On etymons and hybrids -- 41. The hazards of science -- 42. On warts -- 43. On transcendental metaworry (TMW) -- 44. An apology -- 45. On disease -- 46. On natural death -- 47. A trip abroad -- 48. On meddling -- 49. On committees -- 50. The scrambler in the mind -- 51. Notes on punctuation -- 52. The deacon's masterpiece -- 53. How to fix the premedical curriculum -- 54. A brief historical note on medical economics -- 55. Why Montaigne is not a bore -- 56. On thinking about thinking -- 57. On embryology -- 58. Medical lessons from history -- 59. Leech leech et cetera -- 60. Nurses -- 61. Olfaction and the tracking mouse -- 62. Illness -- 63. The unforgettable fire -- 64. The corner of the eye -- 65. Making science work -- 66. Alchemy -- 67. Clever animals -- 68. On smell -- 69. My magical metronome -- 70. On speaking of speaking -- 71. Seven wonders -- 72. The artificial heart -- 73. Things unflattened by science -- 74. Basic science and the Pentagon -- 75. Science and "science" -- 76. On the need for asylums -- 77. Altruism -- 78. Falsity and failure -- 79. On medicine and the bomb -- 80. The problem of dementia -- 81. The lie detector -- 82. Some scientific advice -- 83. The attic of the brain -- 84. Humanities and science -- 85. On matters of doubt -- 86. Late night thoughts on listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony.
Subject(s)	Science.
	Biology.
	Medicine.