Preeminent historian of medicine Owsei Temkin brought to his writing an awesome range of scholarship, for he was at home in the classical, the medieval, and the modern eras. The essays gathered in this volume deal with all the topics that Temkin considered most important in his work. They were widely commended for their originality, intelligent analysis, and impressive continuity of thought.Temkin explores the history of basic medical sciences, of health and disease, and of surgery and drug therapy, as well as general ...
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Preeminent historian of medicine Owsei Temkin brought to his writing an awesome range of scholarship, for he was at home in the classical, the medieval, and the modern eras. The essays gathered in this volume deal with all the topics that Temkin considered most important in his work. They were widely commended for their originality, intelligent analysis, and impressive continuity of thought.Temkin explores the history of basic medical sciences, of health and disease, and of surgery and drug therapy, as well as general questions concerning the historical and philosophical approach to medicine from antiquity to the early twentieth century. In a retrospective introduction which gives the book its name, Temkin relates his writings to his career as a scholar in Germany and the United States. He situates the writings against the background of the development of the study of medical history and provides recollections of such prominent figures as Karl Sudhoff, Henry E. Sigerist, William H. Welch, and Richard H. Shryock.
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Good+ with no dust jacket. 0801818591. Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. Library sticker on front board, and faint sticker ghost at lower spine. Very light bumping/rubbing at spine extremities and tips of bottom corners. Else binding clean. Slight spine twist.; MEH11C; 543 pages; Ex-Library.
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Book. Octavo, 543 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good dust jacket. Blue spine with yellow text. Dust jacket has tearing to spine edges, chipping to corners and edges of both covers, and significant edge and shelf wear. Boards have rubbing to corners and edges. Textblock has sticker on front pastedown and faint stain on fore edge. Shelved ND-E. 1377915. FP New Rockville Stock.
