Lewis Thomas has suggested that "Perhaps the inflammatory reaction should be regarded as a defense of an individual against all the rest of nature, symbolizing his individuality and announcing his existence as an entity. " Provision of these symbols and announcements is the task of various mediators of inflammation and this volume has been designed to present our current understanding of their biochemistry, cellular origins, pharmacology, and role in pathology. Unlike other volumes of collected papers, this book did not result from a specific conference or symposium at which each contributor presented his own, narrowly framed research experience. Rather, each of the chapters represents, in the form of a general review, a summary of our knowledge of the mediators and the mecha nisms by which they are released to launch the inflammatory response. Much effort has been taken to insure that the often conflicting terminology in this field is defmed in detail: many synonyms (e. g. , of the properdin system or the alternate pathway of complement activation) have been repeatedly presented, in order to avoid confusion. Although each of the contributors is actively engaged in the field of inflammation, few text figures or tables of ongoing research have been included; the overall aim was to provide a volume readily accessible to workers in other areas as well as to the general reader.

Mediators of Inflammation

Weissmann, Gerald

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Springer

In this treasure trove of new and best-known essays, Gerald Weissmann ranges freely through subjects as diverse as a cultural history of inflammation, the medical careers of Gertrude Stein and William Carlos Williams, and the Titanic. He is equally at home with Darwin as he is with a suffering homeless patient to whom he ministers with compassion. While in these pages he wages an acutely argued campaign against scientific fraud and facile reasoning, there is nothing righteous or strident in his tone. His writing has a rare brilliance that evokes figures of history and art as vividly as the genius of scientific discovery.

Darwin's Audubon: Science And The Liberal Imagination

Science & Math

Evolution

Basic Books

Essays discuss biological, research, hospitals, mental patients, cholera, AIDS, folk medicine, genetics, abortion, nuclear war, medical ethics, and literature

The Woods Hole Cantata: Essays on Science and Society

Biological Sciences

Houghton/Mifflin

The Year of the Genome: A Diary of the Biological Revolution

For twelve months beginning in January 2000, celebrated essayist and research physician Gerald Weissmann carefully documented the modern age of enlightenment, charting its scientific marvels and new plagues. Now, this illuminating diary takes us on a literary exploration of laboratories and beyond to see the impact on human life and culture of headliners such as RU 486, AIDS drugs, and other current developments, including the controversial use of stem cells. Whether calling on Ralph Waldo Emerson to explain Craig Venter's drive to unravel the genome or tracing the effect of Rachel Carson's legacy on the spread of malaria around the world, Weissmann's lively chronicle captures the greatest genetic revolution of all time.

Times Books

Moving freely between the sciences and the arts, this nuanced, sympathetic account of American medicine's society and culture offers a new interpretation of medical history in America. In addition, Weissmann suggests important new ways to understand the moral and ethical issues of today's biotechnology.

Democracy and DNA: American Dreams and Medical Progress

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Hill Wang

Weismann, Director of the Division of Rheumatology at New York University-Bellevue Hospital, succeeds in writing an entertaining chronicle of both medical knowledge and artistic advances in the Victorian era. "The meliorist dream" which he refers to in his introduction was a concept coined by George Eliot that roughly characterizes the period's intellectual belief that the world's problems might be diagnosed and solved. Weisman skillfully blends this concept of social progress with its correlate manifestations in the medical field, literature, and politics. However, he does not sacrifice one world for another, e.g. his analysis of Emily Dickinson's literary and medical conditions are equally adept. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Hill & Wang Pub

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 Hospital, marine  biologist at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and investigator of the  inflammatory response--and cover topics ranging from funding of AIDS  research to copper cures for arthritis, from William Osler's  Aequanimitas to medical journalism in Berlin. Throughout, Dr. Weissmann  demonstrates how the scientist's faculties of logical thought and close  observation can enrich his perception of society and be brought to bear  on a wide range of social and humanistic issues.

Medical Books

Raven Pr

Rheumatoid Arthritis: Advances in Inflammation Research

The Doctor Dilemma: Squaring the Old Values With the New Economy (The Grand Rounds Press Series)

The Doctor Dilemma: Squaring the Old Values With the New Economy (The Grand Rounds Press Series)

Whittle Communication

"America's most interesting and important essayist." ―Eric Kandel, Nobel Prize–winning author of The Age of Insight
"[Gerald Weissmann] bridges the space between science and the humanities, and particularly between medicine and the muses, with wit, erudition, and, most important, wisdom." ―Adam Gopnik
Embryonic stem cell research. Evolution vs. intelligent design. The transformation of medicine into "health care." 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.
Transporting us across more than four hundred years of pivotal moments in science and medicine, Gerald Weissmann distills history's lessons for today's new age of sect and violence: "The Endarkenment." Among others, he lingers with Galileo and his daughter in seventeenth-century Florence, Diderot and d'Alembert in Enlightenment Paris, William and Alice James in fin de siècle Boston, James Watson as the John McEnroe of DNA, and Craig Venter decoding the genome at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Weissmann's message is clear: "Experimental science is our defense―perhaps our best defense―against humbug and the Endarkenment."
Gerald Weissmann (August 7, 1930 – July 10, 2019) was a physician, scientist, editor, and essayist whose collections include The Fevers of Reason: New and Selected Essays; Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter: Pop Culture and Modern Science; Mortal and Immortal DNA: Science and the Lure of Myth; and Galileo’s Gout: Science in an Age of Endarkenment.

Galileo's Gout: Science in an Age of Endarkenment

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Bellevue Literary Press

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Mediators of Inflammation

Darwin's Audubon: Science And The Liberal Imagination

The Woods Hole Cantata: Essays on Science and Society

The Year of the Genome: A Diary of the Biological Revolution

Democracy and DNA: American Dreams and Medical Progress

Democracy and DNA: American Dreams and Medical Progress

The Woods Hole Cantata: Essays on Science and Society

Rheumatoid Arthritis: Advances in Inflammation Research

The Doctor Dilemma: Squaring the Old Values With the New Economy (The Grand Rounds Press Series)

Galileo's Gout: Science in an Age of Endarkenment