Owsei Temkin

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Owsei Temkin is affiliated with the following schools: University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, Leipzig University

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According to Wikipedia, Owsei Temkin was William H. Welch Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He was a Russian-born, German-educated, American medical historian. After receiving his M.D. from the University of Leipzig in 1927, he moved to the United States in 1932 and became director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins in 1958. He became known as one of the world's foremost experts on the interaction of medicine and culture throughout history. During his academic career and retirement, he published hundreds of articles and a dozen books on the history of medicine. His last book was published in the year of his death at age 99.

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Book Reviews: The Falling Sickness: A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology (1994) (232)
Galenism. Rise and decline of a medical philosophy (1975) (204)
Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians (1991) (111)
The Double Face of Janus and Other Essays in the History of Medicine (1977) (110)
Gall and the phrenological movement. (1947) (73)
Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859 (1959) (70)
The Fielding H. Garrison lecture. Basic science, medicine, and the romantic era. (1963) (65)
Materialism in French and German physiology of the early Nineteenth Century. (1946) (64)
Greek Medicine as Science and Craft (1953) (58)
Soranus' Gynecology (1957) (55)
Byzantine Medicine: Tradition and Empiricism (1962) (54)
The role of surgery in the rise of modern medical thought. (1951) (43)
German concepts of ontogeny and history around 1800. (1950) (37)
Forerunners of Darwin (1959) (32)
THE CLASSICAL ROOTS OF GLISSON'S DOCTRINE OF IRRITATION. (1964) (28)
On Galen's pneumatology. (1951) (28)
The philosophical background of Magendie's physiology. (1946) (27)
An essay on the usefulness of medical history for medicine. (1946) (23)
Medicine and Graeco-Arabic alchemy. (1955) (17)
The elusiveness of Paracelsus. (1952) (13)
"On second thought" and other essays in the history of medicine and science (2002) (12)
Medicine and the problem of moral responsibility. (1949) (11)
Respect for life in medicine, philosophy, and the law (1978) (11)
Medical education in the Middle Ages. (1956) (10)
The Cry and the Covenant (1950) (10)
Hippocrates as the physician of Democritus. (1985) (9)
Henry E. Sigerist and aspects of medical historiography. (1958) (8)
Greek embryological calendars and a fragment from the lost work of Damastes, On the care of pregnant women and of infants (1999) (6)
The study of the history of medicine. (1959) (6)
The Papyrus Ebers. B. Ebbell (1938) (5)
The European background of the young Dr. Welch. (1950) (5)
A Galenic model for quantitative physiological reasoning? (1961) (5)
Physics in Aristotle. (1963) (5)
Merrem's youthful dream; the early history of experimental pylorectomy. (1957) (4)
In memory of Ludwig Edelstein. (1966) (3)
Simon Newcomb and the location of President Garfield's bullet. (1950) (3)
VESALIUS ON AN IMMANENT BIOLOGICAL MOTOR FORCE. (1965) (2)
The era of Paul Ehrlich. (1954) (2)
A postscript to "Merrem's Youthful Dream". (1960) (2)
Who was Akilaos? A Problem in Medical Historiography (2003) (2)
Book Review:Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. Volume I. Mss. Written before 1650 A. D. S. A. J. Moorat (1964) (1)
Antimalarial Drugs. General Outline. (1944) (1)
Harry Friedenwald (September 21, 1864-April 8, 1950). (1951) (1)
On the reading of medical classics. (1974) (1)
Health Education through the Ages. (1940) (1)
History and prophecy: meditations in a medical library. (1975) (1)
Books Received (1968) (0)
The Black Death. By Philip Ziegler. (New York: John Day Company. 1969. Pp. 319. $6.95.) (1970) (0)
Nature and the Greeks. Erwin Schrödinger (1954) (0)
The March of Medicine: Number IV of the New York Academy of Medicine Lectures to the Laity (1941) (0)
Wunderlich, Schelling and the history of medicine. (1966) (0)
Book Review:Corpus Commentariorum Averrois in Aristotelem. Vol. VII-Parva Naturalia. Aemilia Ledyard Shields (1951) (0)
Historical Reflections on the Scientist's Virtue (1969) (0)
Book Reviews (1979) (0)
Book Review:Hippocratic Medicine: Its Spirit and Method William Arthur Heidel (1944) (0)
Book Review:The Greeks and the Irrational E. R. Dodds (1952) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2007) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2001) (0)
Essay Review: Physics in Aristotle: Aristotle's System of the Physical World (1963) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2000) (0)
Professor Shryock's seventy-fifth birthday. (1968) (0)
Dr. Sigerist's sixtieth birthday. (1951) (0)
Book Review:Rembrandt's Anatomy of Dr. Nicolaas Tulp. An Iconological Study William S. Heckscher (1960) (0)
Sanford Vincent Larkey (1898-1969). (1970) (0)
In memory of Henry E. Sigerist. (1957) (0)
On value judgements in the teaching of the history of medicine. (1985) (0)
Richard Harrison Shryock 1893-1972. (1972) (0)
The growth of medical thought. (1963) (0)

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