Ancient Medicine. Selected Papers of Ludwig Edelstein. Edited by Owsei Temkin and C.Lilian Temkin. Translations from the German by C.Lilian Temkin. 477 Seiten. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1967. $ 12.50.

Owsei Temkin 1902-2002.

Ancient Medicine: Selected Papers of Ludwig Edelstein

commended for making available a treatise which can be read only in incunabula and early printed editions. But the actual latin text could have been subjected to a little more rigorous revision, so that some of the sentences might give better sense. The list of errata by no means covers all the misreadings, particularly in the first part of the book, a surprising fact considering the people who...

Trade-offs, Transitivity, and Temkin †

The last few years have seen a number of new and important publications in moral theory. Arguably none more important than Larry S. Temkin’s Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning. This fascinating work highlights and explores in depth a seemingly fundamental inconsistency in our own axiological beliefs. Put roughly, the inconsistency arises given our general wi...

Respect for life in medicine, philosophy, and the law

OWSEI TEMKIN, WILLIAM K. FRANKENA and SANDFORD H. KADISH, Respectfor life in medicine, philosophy, and the law, Baltimore, Md., and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977, 8vo, pp. ix, 107, £5.95. There are three essays in this book, based on lectures originally delivered at The Johns Hopkins University in the spring of 1975: 'The idea of respect for life in the history of medicine' (...

T-matrix calculations for the electron-impact ionization of hydrogen in the Temkin-Poet model

An eigenchannel R-matrix expansion of the T matrix is used to calculate total integrated and ejected energy differential cross sections for the electron-impact ionization of hydrogen in the Temkin-Poet model. In previous close-coupling results, unphysical oscillations in the total ionization cross section could be averaged over due to the smooth dependence of the cross section on the incident e...