Owsei Temkin

Selected publications

• The Falling Sickness: A history of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the beginnings of Modern Neurology Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1945, Revised 1971; )
• Galenism: Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1973, )
• The Double Face of Janus and Other Essays in the History of Medicine Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977, )
• "On Second Thought" and Other Essays in the History of Medicine and Science. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
• Respect for Life in Medicine, Philosophy, and the Law. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.
• Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
• Antimalarial Drugs. Washington, DC: National Research Council, Office of Medical Information, 1944.
• Soranus' Gynecology. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
• Ancient Medicine: Selected Papers of Ludwig Edelstein. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967.
• In Memory of Henry E. Sigerist. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1957.
• Metaphors of Human Biology. In: Science and Civilization, 1949, pp. 169–194.
• Science and Society in the Age of Copernicus. In: The Nature of Scientific Discovery, 1975, pp. 106–133.
• A Report on the Medical Treatment of Filariasis Bancroft. Washington, DC: National Research Council, Division of Medical Sciences, 1945.
• Galen's Dissection of the Liver and the Muscles Moving the Forearm. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1946.
• The Philosophical Background of Magendie's Physiology. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1946, v. 20.
• Was Servetus Influenced by Ibn an-Nafis? Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1940.
• The Classical Roots of Glisson's Doctrine of Irritation. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1964.
• Materialism in French and German Physiology of the Earl;y Nineteenth Century. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1946, v. 20.
• Byzantine Medicine: Tradition and Empiricism. Dumbarton Oaks papers, no. 16, pp. 95–115.