Owsei Temkin

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Owsei Temkin (October 6, 1902 – July 18, 2002) was a Russian-born, German-educated, American medical historian. He served as director of the Institute of the History of Medicine and was the William H. Welch Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University. 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.

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• The Falling Sickness: A history of epilepsy from the Greeks to the beginnings of modern neurology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971, ISBN 0801812119)
• Galenism: rise and decline of a medical philosophy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1973, ISBN 0801407745)
• The Double Face of Janus and Other Essays in the History of Medicine (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977, ISBN 0801818591)

[edit] References

• Nutton, Vivian. "Obituary: Owsei Temkin, 1902–2002", Medical History 47(1), January 2003; pp 100-103 (accessed via PubMed Central, National Institute of Health, 13 August 2007).