Russian-born American medical historian (1902–2002)

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Leipzig, Germany: medical historians: group portrait. Photograph, 1929.

Leipzig, Germany: medical historians posing on the steps of a building: group portrait. Photograph, 1929.

Owsei Temkin. Photograph, ca. 1963.

Owsei Temkin.

Soranus' gynecology / translated with an introduction by Owsei Temkin ; with the assistance of Nicholson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher.

Soranus' Gynecology / translated with an introduction by Owsei Temkin ; with the assistance of Nicholson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher.

The falling sickness : a history of epilepsy from the Greeks to the beginnings of modern neurology / Owsei Temkin.

Karl Sudhoff, the rediscoverer of Paracelsus / Owsei Temkin.

Medical ethics and honoraria in late antiquity / Owsei Temkin.

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Owsei Temkin

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Images featuring Owsei Temkin

Works from the collections

Soranus' gynecology / translated with an introduction by Owsei Temkin ; with the assistance of Nicholson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher.

Soranus' Gynecology / translated with an introduction by Owsei Temkin ; with the assistance of Nicholson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher.

The falling sickness : a history of epilepsy from the Greeks to the beginnings of modern neurology / Owsei Temkin.

Karl Sudhoff, the rediscoverer of Paracelsus / Owsei Temkin.

Medical ethics and honoraria in late antiquity / Owsei Temkin.

Owsei Temkin

Images from the collections

Images featuring Owsei Temkin

Works from the collections

Soranus' gynecology / translated with an introduction by Owsei Temkin ; with the assistance of Nicholson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher.

Soranus' Gynecology / translated with an introduction by Owsei Temkin ; with the assistance of Nicholson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher.

The falling sickness : a history of epilepsy from the Greeks to the beginnings of modern neurology / Owsei Temkin.

Karl Sudhoff, the rediscoverer of Paracelsus / Owsei Temkin.

Medical ethics and honoraria in late antiquity / Owsei Temkin.

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