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.
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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.
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Very Good. Size: 6x1x9; Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. "Owsei Temkin was a director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Temkin was known as one of the world's foremost experts on the interaction of medicine and culture throughout history. He published hundreds of articles and a dozen books on the history of medicine, including the history and philosophy of Greco-Arabic medicine. His book, The Falling Sickness, a study of views on epilepsy through the ages, has achieved wide renown. Temkin received the Welch Medal and the Sarton Prize and was elected to the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences."-Johns Hopkins Medical Institute.
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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.
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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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