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
In this diverting collection of essays, Gerald Weissmann looks back on
decades of a career spent working at the intersection of the arts and
sciences. The Fevers of Reason features some of his best and most
representative works, alongside eleven new essays never before published
in book form. Masterfully drawing from an array of subject areas and
time periods, he tackles everything from Ebola to Eisenhower, Zika to
Zola, Darwin to Dawkins, showcasing his singular contribution to
humanistic science writing.
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.