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. He is equally at home with Darwin as he is with a suffering homeless patient to whom he ministers with compassion. While in these pages he wages an acutely argued campaign against scientific fraud and facile reasoning, there is nothing righteous or strident in his tone. His writing has a rare brilliance that evokes figures of history and art as vividly as the genius of scientific discovery.
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About the Author:
Gerald Weissmann, M.D., is Professor of Medicine and director of the Biotechnology centre at New York University School of Medicine. He has received the Lila Gruber Award for Cancer Research, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the Allesandro Robecchi Prize for Rheumatology.
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- PublisherPerseus Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0306459817
- ISBN 13 9780306459818
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages337
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