Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (8 volume set)

Dwight J. Ingle, S. O. Waife, C. Judson Herrick, Rene J. Dubos, Percival Bailey, Daniel L. Gilbert,

University of Chicago Press, 1957

[Interesting provenance, previously owned by Owsei Temkin.] 8 volume set. Bound in buckram cloth. Hardcover. Good bindings and covers. Clean, unmarked pages. Bookplate of Temkin on verso. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Contents: v.1. 1957-58; v.2. 1958-59; v.4. 1960-61; v.5. 1961-62; v.7. 1963-64; v.8. 1964-65; v.9. 1965-66; v.10. 1966-67. Interesting essays in this collection include: Some Considerations Regarding Biochemical Genetics in Man by C. Judson Herrick; Infection into Disease by Rene J. Dubos; Genetic Chemistry and Cancer Chemotherapy by C.P. Rhoads; Evolution and Disease of the Brain by Percival Bailey; Speculation on the Relationship between Organic and Atmospheric Evolution by Daniel L. Gilbert; The Equalitarian Dogma by Henry E. Garrett; The First Aphorism of Hippocrates by Dickinson W. Richards; Larynx and Speech as Determinants in the Evolution of Man by B. Raymond Fink; The Use of Fish in Neuropsychology by David J. Ingle; Functional Meaning of the Patterns of Synaptic Connections in the Cerebellum by Sir John Eccles;  The Thrombohemorrhagic Phenomenon as a Pluricausal Disease by Hans Selye; On Discussing Human Races by Leigh Van Valen; and A New Model of Global Brain Function by Harry Blum. 

"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