By Gerald Weissmann
[Weissmann] is a guy of extensive tradition, an enthralling and sleek writer.” New Yorker
[Weissmann] bridges the gap among technology and the arts, and especially among drugs and the muses, with wit, erudition, and, most crucial, wisdom.” Adam Gopnik
An totally satisfactory writer.” Kurt Vonnegut
Dr. Weissmann’s juggling with the balls of worldwide politics, biology, drugs, and tradition within the framework of historical past is breathtaking.” Bengt Samuelsson, Nobel Laureate and previous chairman of the Nobel Foundation
In this diverting selection of essays, Gerald Weissmann appears to be like again on the previous few many years of his lengthy occupation operating on the intersection of the humanities and sciences. The Fevers of Reason beneficial properties a few of his top and so much consultant works, along ten new essays that experience by no means sooner than been released in e-book shape. Masterfully drawing from an array of topic parts and time classes, he tackles every thing from Ebola to Eisenhower, Zika to Zola, Darwin to Dawkins, and once more exhibits that he's some of the most very important voices in humanistic technology writing today.
Gerald Weissmann is a doctor, scientist, editor, and essayist whose collections comprise Epigenetics within the Age of Twitter, Mortal and Immortal DNA, and Galileo’s Gout. he's professor emeritus and learn professor of drugs at big apple college tuition of drugs, and his essays and studies have seemed in several courses around the world. He lives in long island and Woods gap, Massachusetts.
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