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The Youngest Science

Notes of a Medicine-Watcher

Notes of a Medicine-Watcher

By Lewis Thomas

By Lewis Thomas

By Lewis Thomas

By Lewis Thomas

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    About The Youngest Science

    From 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. The Youngest Science 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.

    He 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, The Youngest Science is also a celebration and a warning–about the nature of medicine and about the future life of our planet.

    About The Youngest Science

    From 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. The Youngest Science 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.

    He 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, The Youngest Science is also a celebration and a warning–about the nature of medicine and about the future life of our planet.

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    About Lewis Thomas

    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… More about Lewis Thomas

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    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Science

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    May 01, 1995 | 272 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140243277

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Science

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    May 01, 1995 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9781101667071

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    Table Of Contents

    The Youngest Science – Lewis Thomas 1. Amity Street
    2. House Calls
    3. 1911 Medicine
    4. 1933 Medicine
    5. 1937 Internship
    6. Leech Leech, Et Cetera
    7. Nurses
    8. Neurology
    9. Guam and Okinawa
    10. Itinerary
    11. NYU Pathology
    12. NYU Bellevue Medicine
    13. The Board of Health
    14. Endotoxin
    15. Cambridge
    16. The Governance of a University
    17. Rheumatoid Arthritis and Mycoplasmas
    18. MSKCC: The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
    19. Olfaction and the Tracking Mouse
    20. Illness
    21. Scabies, Scrapie
    22. Essays and Gaia
    Appendix

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