Author

Publication

1977 - Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland

Language

English

Word Count

135,750 words, Guess

Page Count

543 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number76047380
  • OCLC Control Number2977894
  • Better World Books9780801818592
  • Open LibraryOL4902319M

Classifications

  • DDC610/.9
  • LCCR131 .T4
  • LCCR131

Description

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The double face of Janus and other essays in the history of medicineJohns Hopkins University Press1977-01-01

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