Notes
1George Sarton, ‘The History of Science versus the History of Medicine’, Isis, 23 (1935), 313–20. All subsequent quotes from Sarton are from this article.
2Henry Sigerist, ‘The History of Medicine and the History of Science’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 4 (1936), 1–13. All subsequent quotes from Sigerist are from this article.
3Arnold Thackray, ‘History of Science’, in A Guide to the Culture of Science, Technology and Medicine, edited by Paul T. Durbin (New York, 1980), 3–69.
4Amongst Temkin's admirers and students, Charles Rosenberg has shown how rich Temkin's suggestions for thinking about the history of ideas in social terms can be. He would, no doubt, like Temkin, be horrified to be described as Marxist. See Roger Cooter's essay in the volume under review.
5Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914–1991 (London, 1994), 258.