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Very Good. Size: 0x0x0; [American Lectures in the History of Medicine and Science] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Marginal toning. Clean, unmarked pages. vii, 293 pages, 24 cm. "This work provides further insight into some facets of the development of concepts of disease, particularly the transition from dominance of unfounded supposition to reliance on direct observation." From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).