Temink Owsei Introduction (1 results)
Language: English
Published by The Johns Hopkins Press, 1936
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. [Interesting provenance, previously owned by Owsei Temkin.] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Pages unmarked. "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.