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Preeminent Historian Of Medicine Owsei Temkin Has Brought To His Writing Over The Past 40 Years An Awesome Range Of Scholarship. The Essays Gathered In This Volume Deal With All The Topics That He Considers Most Important In His Work. They Have Been Widely Commended For Their Originality, Intelligent Analysis, And Impressive Continuity Of Thought. The Essays Deal With The History Of Basic Medical Sciences, Of Health And Disease, And Of Surgery And Drug Therapy, As Well As With General Questions Concerning The Historical And Philosophical Approach To Medicine From Antiquity To The Early Twentieth Century. -- From Book Jacket. 1. Introduction: The Double Face Of Janus -- 2. The Historical Approach To Medicine: The Meaning Of Medicine In Historical Perspective -- Medicine And The Problem Of Moral Responsibility -- An Essay On The Usefulness Of Medical History For Medicine -- On The Interrelationship Of The History And The Philosophy Of Medicine -- The Historiography Of Ideas In Medicine -- Comparative Study In The History Of Medicine -- 3. Medicine: Ancient And Medieval: Greek Medicine As Science And Craft -- On Galen's Pneumatology -- A Galenic Model For Quantitative Physiological Re

Author

Owsei Temkin, 1902-2002

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

1977

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801818592

Subjects

Medical, History, Medicine