The fevers of reason : new and selected essays
Record details
- ISBN: 9781942658320
- ISBN: 1942658338
- ISBN: 9781942658337
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Physical Description:
1 online resource
remote - 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). |
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Subject: | Science -- Miscellanea Science -- history Philosophy, Medical History, 20th Century History, 21st Century SCIENCE -- Essays SCIENCE -- Reference Science |
Genre: | Essay. Collected Work. Electronic books. Essays. Trivia and miscellanea. Trivia and miscellanea. Essays. |