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“Oliver Sacks, Richard Selzer, Lewis Thomas . . . Weissmann is in this noble custom.” —Los Angeles Times
“Weissmann presents us to a fresh way of thinking about the links between fine art and medication.” —New York Times E book Review
Embryonic stem cell research. Progression vs. sensible design. The change of medication into “healthcare.” Climate change. Never before has knowledge been so intertwined with politics, do not have we been more reliant on scientific alternatives for the preservation of the types.
Carrying us across more than 500 years of pivotal occasions in knowledge and medication, Weissmann distills history’s lessons for today’s modern of sect and assault: “The Endarkenment.” Among others, he lingers with Galileo and his girl in seventeenth-century Florence, Diderot and d’Alembert in Enlightenment Paris, William and Alice Wayne in fin de siècle Boston, Wayne Watson as the John McEnroe of DNA, and Craig Venter decoding the genome at the dawn of the twenty-first hundred years. Weissmann’s note is clear: “Experimental knowledge is our defense—perhaps our best defense—against humbug and the Endarkenment.”
A uncommon amalgam of incisive polemic and abundant, anecdotal narrative, this is humanistic knowledge writing at its best. Weissmann’s reflections on the historical root base of the current culture wars in knowledge and medication again expose him to be, as Nobel Prize-winner Eric Kandel says “by any standard, one of the major essayists of your time.”
Gerald Weissmann is your physician, scientist, editor, and essayist whose collections include Epigenetics in age Tweets: Pop Culture and Modern Knowledge; Mortal and Immortal DNA: Knowledge and the Lure of Misconception; and Galileo’s Gout: Knowledge in an Age of Endarkenment. He's teacher emeritus and research teacher of medication at NY University School of Treatments. His essays and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines worldwide, including the London Overview of Catalogs and New York Times E book Review. The ex - editor-in-chief of the FASEB Journal, he's now its publication reviews editor. He lives in Manhattan and Woods Opening, Massachusetts.
