Ideologie und Utopie

Karl Mannheim

Cohen, Bonn, 1929

[Interesting provenance, previously owned by Dr. Owsei Temkin.] Bound in publisher's black cloth. Hardcover. German text. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Some staining to edge. Contemporary signature of Temkin on front end page. Related ephemera included. xv, 250 p., 22 cm. 

"Owsei Temkin was a director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Temkin was known as one of the world's foremost experts on the interaction of medicine and culture throughout history. He published hundreds of articles and a dozen books on the history of medicine, including the history and philosophy of Greco-Arabic medicine. His book, The Falling Sickness, a study of views on epilepsy through the ages, has achieved wide renown. Temkin received the Welch Medal and the Sarton Prize and was elected to the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences." - Johns Hopkins Medical Institute