by Lewis Thomas · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140243284
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«Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony» is Lewis Thomas's collection of essays, published by Penguin, in paperback (168 pages).
Scientist and writer Lewis Thomas brings together essays on science, medicine, and society, such as 'The Attic of the Brain' and 'Altruism'. He criticizes the abandonment of federal support for basic research and spending on nuclear weapons; the title essay addresses youth in the nuclear age.
Work originally published in 1983; this 1995 paperback edition is in English. Lewis Thomas also wrote The Lives of a Cell, winner of the National Book Award.
For readers of scientific and philosophical essays, interested in the relationship between science, medicine, and society and in the work of Lewis Thomas.
Lewis Thomas was an American physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and biologist. He was a longtime contributor to The New England Journal of Medicine, and his essays were collected in several books. He received National Book Award in Arts and Letters and The Sciences for The Lives of a Cell.
