Background
Kilbourne, Edwin Dennis was born on July 10, 1920 in Buffalo. Son of Edwin I. and Elizabeth (Alward) Kilbourne.
(Strategies of Sex includes verses by a physician-scientis...)
Strategies of Sex includes verses by a physician-scientist member of the National Academy of Sciences that are a celebration of the diversity of arrangements (often bizarre) that ensure the propagation of species, from Anableps to surgeonfish. The result is somewhere between Cole Porter ("bees do it") and Elizabeth Barrett Browning ("let me count the ways..") with a touch of Ogden Nash. Book 1, focuses on the title topic, Strategies of Sex. Pudgy moorhens, hairy-legged fruit flies, doubly endowed four-eyed fish - whatever turns you on - they are all here, immortalized with grace and style. The price of too much male enthusiasm is described in "The Ballad of Howie" a four-eyed fish blessed (?) with two sex organs, and in "Never on Sunday, Hunday" about a bull who sired too many calves before dying of exhaustion. In the case of the fruit fly, Melanogaster, "acts of millisecond brevity interfere with his longevity". But female promiscuity is the subject of "The Round-Heeled Snakes of Sweden." Book 2, Annotated Animals, defines the "zoo out there" in which the implicit verbal defamation of the Slow Loris is decried and doubts are expressed on the arrival of a "Tiny Pale Whale" at Coney Island. If that isn't news, then read "The Hippopota-news" or about the dog, man's best friend, with "no control at either end". Book 3 covers - in verse and in prose - a sample of Humanity's Inanities. The author has taken license to indulge in a mixed bag of philosophical musings, including an obsession with proper English, ("More Importantly").
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Kilbourne, Edwin Dennis was born on July 10, 1920 in Buffalo. Son of Edwin I. and Elizabeth (Alward) Kilbourne.
AB, Cornell University, 1942. Doctor of Medicine, Cornell University, 1944. Doctor of Science honoris causa, Rockefeller University, 1986.
Assistant, Rockefeller Institute, 1948-1951; member of faculty, Tulane University, 1951-1955; member of faculty, Cornell Univercity Medical College, New York City, 1955-1968; professor public health, director division virus research, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1961-1968; professor, department chairman microbiology, Mount Sinai School Medicine, City U. New York, 1968-1986; distinguished service professor, Mount Sinai School Medicine, City U. New York, since 1986; research professor, New York Medical College, since 1992. Chairman, board directors Aaron Diamond Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Research Center for the City New York, 1989-1994.
(Strategies of Sex includes verses by a physician-scientis...)
Member Health Research Council New York City, 1968-1975. Fellow New York Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society. Member Harvey Society, Southern Society Clinical Research, Central Society Clinical Research (emeritus), American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Public Health Association, American Association Immunologists, American Academy Microbiology, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Society Clinical Investigation (emeritus), New York Academy Medicine, Association American Physicians, American Society Microbiology, Infectious Diseases Society of America, Connecticut Academy of Sciences and Engineering.
Married Joy Schmid, December 20, 1952. Children: Edwin Michael, Richard Schmid, Christopher Norton, Paul Alward.