Research Catalog

Title

Jews and medicine : religion, culture, science / edited by Natalia Berger.

Publication

Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Berger, Natalia
• Bet ha-tefutsot ʻal shem Naḥum Goldman

Description

275 p. : ill. (some col.); 30 cm.

Summary

"Jews and Medicine examines the special relationship between Jews and medicine both intrinsically, from within, and historically, from without. Two questions were posed: first, does Judaism in itself foster a special attitude toward medicine, and secondly, to what extent did life in the Diaspora influence the Jewish contribution to medicine? The book chronologically traces the most significant points of encounter between the history of the Jewish people and the history of medicine, beginning with the Bible and ending with the modern world and the State of Israel." "This beautiful book is a unique combination of information and artifact, history and philosophy, and is a perfect gift for any doctor, rabbi, or anyone else interested in the long and noble relationship between Jews and medicine."--Jacket.

Subject

• Jews > Medicine
• Jews > Medicine > Exhibitions
• History of Medicine
• Jews

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Originally published: Tel Aviv, Israel : Beth HaTefutsoth, 1995.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Why medicine? / Natalia Berger -- Healing in Jewish law and lore / Samuel S. Kottek -- Jewish medical treatises in the Middle Ages / Ron Barkai -- The marriage of science and ethics : three Jewish physicians of the Renaissance. Amatus Lusitanus ; Jacob ben Isaac Zahalon ; Abraham Zacuto / Aaron J. Feingold -- Jewish folk medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries / Hagit Matras -- The Jewish doctor in the era of modern medicine / Thomas Schlich -- The contribution of Central European Jewish doctors to medical science / Gerhard Baader -- Jewish women in medicine in the early 20th century : the case of Central Europe / Harriet Pass Freidenreich -- Sigmund Freud / Peter Gay -- Jewish medicine during the Holocaust in the ghettos and forests / Daniel Nadav -- Jewish physicians in the United States / Theodore M. Brown -- Medical services in the Holy Land in the nineteenth century : 1842-1914 / Shmuel Nissan -- The development of the Jewish health care system in Palestine and Israel during the twentieth century / Shifra Shvarts.

ISBN

0827606443

LCCN

^^^97026717^

OCLC

• 37322282
• SCSB-12688538

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library