{"product_id":"the-medusa-and-the-snail-isbn-9780140243192","title":"The Medusa and the Snail","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Pulitzer Prize Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.The Medusa and the Snail\u003cbr\u003eThe Tucson Zoo\u003cbr\u003eThe Youngest and Brightest Thing Around\u003cbr\u003eOn Magic in Medicine\u003cbr\u003eThe Wonderful Mistake\u003cbr\u003ePonds\u003cbr\u003eTo Err Is Human\u003cbr\u003eThe Selves\u003cbr\u003eThe Health-Care System\u003cbr\u003eOn Cloning a Human Being\u003cbr\u003eOn Etymons and Hybrids\u003cbr\u003eThe Hazards of Science\u003cbr\u003eOn Warts\u003cbr\u003eOn Transcendental Metaworry (TMW)\u003cbr\u003eAn Apology\u003cbr\u003eOn Disease\u003cbr\u003eOn Natural Death\u003cbr\u003eA Trip Abroad\u003cbr\u003eOn Meddling\u003cbr\u003eOn Committees\u003cbr\u003eThe Scrambler in the Mind\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Punctuation\u003cbr\u003eThe Deacon's Masterpiece\u003cbr\u003eHow to Fix the Premedical Curriculum\u003cbr\u003eA Brief Historical Note on Medical Economics\u003cbr\u003eWhy Montaigne Is Not a Bore\u003cbr\u003eOn Thinking About Thinking\u003cbr\u003eOn Embryology\u003cbr\u003eMedical Lessons from History\u003cb\u003eWinner of a National Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003e( The Medusa and the Snail\u003c\/i\u003e) remains among the finest, most insightful writing I have ever savored.\" —\u003cb\u003eMaria Popova\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Thomas' unexpected turns of phrase and love of words and their origins is revealed again and again...Read Thomas for his estimable style—often disarmingly simple, even colloquial—and the wit and insight into life and medicine his writing embodies.\" —\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLewis Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNew England Journal of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e, and his essays were published in several collections, including \u003ci\u003eThe Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher,\u003c\/i\u003e which won two National Book Awards and a Christopher Award, and \u003ci\u003eThe Medusa and the Snail,\u003c\/i\u003e which won the National Book Award in Science. He died in 1993.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299752628453,"sku":"NP9780140243192","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140243192.jpg?v=1767740463","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-medusa-and-the-snail-isbn-9780140243192","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}