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6 produkter

1. 

   Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859

   Av Bentley Glass, Owsei Temkin m. fl.

   Häftad, 1968

   480 kr

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   Published to commemorate the centennial of the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species", this volume brings together several important essays on the history of the idea of evolution. Included are discussions of Maupertuis, Buffon, Diderot, Kant, Herder, Lamarck, and Schopenhauer by such leading …

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   Ancient Medicine

   Selected Papers of Ludwig Edelstein

   Av Ludwig Edelstein, Owsei Temkin

   Häftad, 1987

   536 kr

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   A classic study of medicine in antiquity, Ancient Medicine brings together much of Ludwig Edelstein's most important work on a subject that occupied him throughout a distinguished career. Included is his widely known translation of and commentary on the Hippocratic Oath, as well as his other …

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   Falling Sickness

   A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology

   Av Owsei Temkin

   Häftad, 1994

   471 kr

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   Owsei Temkin presents the history of epilepsy in Western civilization from ancient times to the beginnings of modern neurology. First published in 1945 and thoroughly revised in 1971, this classic work by one of the history of medicine's most eminent scholars now returns to print in a new softcover …

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   Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians

   Av Owsei Temkin

   Häftad, 1995

   443 kr

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   In Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians, Temkin shows how the perennial appeal of Hippocratic practice helped establish the relationship between scientific medicine and monotheistic religion. After the first century, Hippocratic medicine competed with powerful beliefs in religious …

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

   Av Owsei Temkin

   Häftad, 2006

   569 kr

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   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 …

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   "On Second Thought" and Other Essays in the History of Medicine and Science

   Av Owsei Temkin

   Inbunden, 2002

   571 kr

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   Over the course of a career spanning most of the twentieth century, distinguished historian Owsei Temkin has argued passionately for the necessity of chronicling and analyzing the history of medicine. The essays presented in "On Second Thought" and Other Essays in the History of Medicine and …