The Woods Hole Cantata: Essays on Science and Society

by Gerald Weissmann and Gerald Weissman

Book Overview

The Woods Hole Cantata essays articulate a scientist's remarkable attempt to transcend the fragmentation of a society of specialists. Dr. Weissmann explores the social, cultural, and esthetic ramifications of contemporary biomedical research, placing the sophisticated insights of the highly specialized laboratory into a broader context of intellectual history. The essays draw on his wealth of experience--as teacher and clinician at Bellevue...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0396086187
• ISBN13: 9780396086185
• Release Date: February 1985
• Publisher: Dodd Mead
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.