Product Description: Basic biological research is not in trouble, but support for this cultural product is perhaps more fragile than it should be. We have developed, in this country, in Europe, and in Japan a triumphant record of research accomplishment that has rev­ olutionized our vision of the cell, the body, and the environ­ ment...read more

Product Description: “Oliver Sacks, Richard Selzer, Lewis Thomas . . . Weissmann is in this noble tradition.”—Los Angeles Times“Weissmann introduces us to a new way of thinking about the connections between art and medicine.”—The New York Times Book ReviewEmbryonic stem cell research...read more

The research physician and essayist comments on the groundbreaking biomedical issues of the year, including RU 486, stem cell research, and the return of malaria.

Product Description: In this treasure trove of new and best-known essays, Gerald Weissmann ranges freely through subjects as diverse as a cultural history of inflammation, the medical careers of Gertrude Stein and William Carlos Williams, and the Titanic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Essays discuss a broad range of topics, including links between the work of Audubon and Darwin, a cultural history of inflammation, the life of Marie Curie, the disease that crippled Christopher Columbus, and the Titanic (view table of contents)

A history of American medicine links the nation's ideals of social progress with the triumphs in science and medicine, discussing advances in medical science, the moral issues of modern technology, and American medical society and culture.

Product Description: The Doctor Dilemma: Squaring the Old Values With the New Economy (The Grand Rounds Press Series)

Focuses on how the cultures of both art and science have changed during the last decade, arguing that each has its best chance in a republic of skeptics

Essays discuss Sherlock Holmes, tropical diseases, medical trends, research, the fear of science, inflammation, nouvelle cuisine, and sabbaticals

Essays discuss biological, research, hospitals, mental patients, cholera, AIDS, folk medicine, genetics, abortion, nuclear war, medical ethics, and literature

Product Description: Lewis Thomas has suggested that "Perhaps the inflammatory reaction should be regarded as a defense of an individual against all the rest of nature, symbolizing his individuality and announcing his existence as an entity. " Provision of these symbols and announcements is the task of various mediators of inflammation and this volume has been designed to present our current understanding of their biochemistry, cellular origins, pharmacology, and role in pathology...read more