Galileo's Gout Science in an Age of Endarkenment

Name: Galileo's Gout Science in an Age of Endarkenment
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ISBN: 9781934137000

ISBN-10: 1934137006

ISBN-13: 9781934137000

Edition: 2007

Authors: Gerald Weissmann

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"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 Review Embryonic stem cell research. Evolution versus intelligent design. The transformation of medicine into "healthcare." Climate change. Never before has science been so intertwined with politics; never have we been more dependent on scientific solutions for the preservation of the species. As at home with Galileo and his daughter in Florence as he is with Diderot in Enlightenment France, William and Alice James in fin-de-si??cle Boston, or the latest research…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Publication date: 4/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.30" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Gerald Weissmann is a professor of medicine and director of the Biotechnology Study Center at New York University School of Medicine. He lives in New York City and Woods Holer, Massachusetts.



Introduction: The Endarkenment


Intelligent Design: Galileo and the Lynxes


Galileo's Gout


Swift-boating Darwin: Alternative and Complementary Science


Homeostasis and the East Wind


Red Wine, Ortolans, and Chondroitin Sulfate


Cortisone and the Burning Cross


The Case of the Floppy-eared Rabbits


Einstein and Jimmy Mac


Baumol's Curse


From the Patchwork Mouse to Patchwork Data


Alice James and Rheumatic Gout


Lewis Thomas and the Two Cultures


Rats, Lice, and Zinsser


Faith-based Alternative Medicine: Moses Applies for a Grant


Reducing the Genome


A Nobel Error


The Mother of Us All: Boston City and the Thorndike


Childish Curiosity


Jacques Loeb and Stem Cells


Galton's Prayer


References


Acknowledgments


Index