The Double Face of Janus and Other Essays in the History of Medicine

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  • Author : Owsei Temkin
  • Release Date : 2006-11-02
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 578
  • ISBN 13 : 9780801885471
  • File Size : 3,3 MB
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The Double Face of Janus and Other Essays in the History of Medicine by Owsei Temkin PDF Summary

Book Description: 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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