Man Medicine and Environment Author:Rene Dubos The whole man and his total environment: Man is both the most powerful and most vulnerable of creatures, possessing intelligence but lacking in protective instincts, master of his environment yet often its victim. In this important book, Pulitzer Prize winner Rene Dubo synthesizes the disciplines of biology, anthropology and sociology to chart m... more »an's unique position within the evolutionary life scheme, and the challenges it poses for medical science. His is a telling critique of the trend toward narrow specialization within the field of medicine. But far more than that, Dr. Duos offers a profoundly exciting viion of the great role modern medicine can and must play in understanding and influencing man's world beyond the narrow confines of doctors' waiting rooms and hospital walls.« less