PELICAN BOOKS
Isotopes. By J. L. Putnam. Health and Hormones. By A. Stuart Mason. The Common Sense of Science. By J. Bronowski. All published by Pelican Books. These three recent Pelicans are interesting additions to the Pelican Library. Two are new, while Bronowski’s "Common Sense of Science” is a new edition of a work first written 10 years ago. Putnam’s "Isotopes” provides a useful basic introduction to that aspect of atomic energy which has become an everyday tool of research and a common feature of medicine and industry. "Isotopes” is a useful; adjunct to the second of these Pelicans, “Health and Hormones,” where the use of radioactive isotopes in determining the proper function of the body's hormonal systems is discussed. Dr. Stuart Mason’s discussion of those parts of the body generally referred to as “the glands” is most easily read, and he leaves no doubt as to the importance they have for every function of our lives. Goitre and diabetes are well enough known but the detailed function of the thyroid and the pancreas may not be so well known even to sufferers. Neat and concise historic details help the appreciation of this study of the endocrine system, and those describing Thomas yrillis’ discovery of diabetes mellitus should give heart to struggling young scientists. Bronowski’s "Common Sense of Science’* is largely a historical approach to science and this work is as fitting today as it was ten years ago when it was first published.
Pelican excels in bringing modern science to the difficult person, “the average man.” There is no writing down to some uncalculable level, nor does the opposite obtain.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29500, 29 April 1961, Page 3
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271PELICAN BOOKS Press, Volume C, Issue 29500, 29 April 1961, Page 3
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