Name: The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science (en Inglés)
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Author: Peter Medawar
ISBN: 9780192861931

portada The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Autor

Peter Medawar

Año

1996

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780192861931

Categorías

Filosofía de la ciencia
Influencia de la ciencia y la tecnología

The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science (en Inglés)

Peter Medawar (Autor) · Oxford University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Sir Peter Medawar was not only a Nobel prize-winning immunologist but also a wonderful writer about science and scientists. Described by the Washington Post as a `genuinely brilliant popularizer' of science, his essays are remarkable for their clarity and wit. This entertaining selection presents the very best of his writing with a new Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould, one of his greatest admirers. The wide range of subjects include Howard Florey and penicillin, J. B. S. Haldane, whom he describes as a `with-knobs-on variant of us all', and, in the title essay, scientific fraud involving laboratory mice. There is Medawar's defence of James Watson against the storm of criticism that greeted the publication of The Double Helix. A merciless debunker of myths, he reveals the nonsense to be discovered in psychoanalytic interpretations of Darwin's illness and launches devastating attacks on Arthur Koestler, IQ psychologists, and, most notably, Teilhard de Chardin. He raises questions about the nature of scientific endeavour - he famously defined science as the art of the soluble - and a common theme is his desire to communicate the importance of science to the widest possible audience.