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The fevers of reason : new and selected essays / Gerald Weissmann.

Summary:

"In this diverting collection of essays, Gerald Weissmann looks back at the past few decades of his long career working at the intersection of the arts and sciences. The Fevers of Reason features some of his best and most representative works, alongside eleven new essays that have never before been published in book form. Masterfully drawing from an array of subject areas and time periods, he tackles everything from Ebola to Eisenhower, Zika to Zola, Darwin to Dawkins, and once again shows that he is one of the most important voices in humanistic science writing today"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781942658337
ISBN: 1942658338
Physical Description: 1 online resource
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2018.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Going viral -- Arrowsmith and CRISPR at the Marine Biological Laboratory -- Ebola and the cabinet of Dr. Proust -- Zika, kale, and calligraphy: Ricky Jay and Matthias Buchinger -- Ike on Orlando: "Every gun is a theft" -- Nobel on Columbus Avenue -- Lupus and the course of empire -- Grouch on the gridiron -- Apply directly to forehead: Holmes, Zola, and hennapecia -- Science fictions -- Swift-boating Darwin: alternative and complementary science -- Spinal irritation and the failure of nerve -- Galton's prayer -- Dr. Doyle and the case of the guilty gene -- Two for the road -- Swift-boating "America the beautiful": Katherine Lee Bates and a Boston marriage -- Alice James and rheumatic gout -- Free radicals can kill you: Lavoisier and the oxygen revolution -- Dr. Blackwell returns from London -- Call me Madame -- Beside the golden door -- Welcome to America: Einstein's letter to the Dean -- Modernism and the hippocampus: Kandel's Vienna -- A taste of the oyster: Jan Vilcek's Love and science -- Richard Dawkins lights a Brief candle in the dark -- Eugenics and the immigrant: Rosalyn Yalow -- Cortisone and the burning cross -- Ave atque vale -- Lewis Thomas and the two cultures.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 27, 2018).