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Jews, Medicine, and Medieval Society

Author : Joseph Shatzmiller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520913221
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Jews, Medicine, and Medieval Society written by Joseph Shatzmiller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews were excluded from most professions in medieval, predominantly Christian Europe. Bigotry was widespread, yet Jews were accepted as doctors and surgeons, administering not only to other Jews but to Christians as well. Why did medieval Christians suspend their fear and suspicion of the Jews, allowing them to inspect their bodies, and even, at times, to determine their survival? What was the nature of the doctor-patient relationship? Did the law protect Jewish doctors in disputes over care and treatment? Joseph Shatzmiller explores these and other intriguing questions in the first full social history of the medieval Jewish doctor. Based on extensive archival research in Provence, Spain, and Italy, and a deep reading of the widely scattered literature, Shatzmiller examines the social and economic forces that allowed Jewish medical professionals to survive and thrive in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe. His insights will prove fascinating to scholars and students of Judaica, medieval history, and the history of medicine.

Jews in Medicine

Author : Ronald L. Eisenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789655243000
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Jews in Medicine written by Ronald L. Eisenberg and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Requiring no specialized medical or Jewish knowledge, Jews in Medicine will appeal to readers interested in the fascinating history of Jewish contributions to the field. The book focuses on the relationship of Jews and medicine in Islamic and Christian lands, offering a short description of Jewish history followed by accounts of individual physicians and their major contributions. It ends with a description of physicians who were leaders in the Zionist movement and those who contributed to the development of medicine in the State of Israel"--

Jews and Medicine

Author : Frank Heynick
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780881257731
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (577 download)

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Book Synopsis Jews and Medicine by : Frank Heynick

Download or read book Jews and Medicine written by Frank Heynick and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Middle East B.C.E. to medieval Spain through the end of WWII, Frank Heynick traces the relationship between a people and a science in Jews and Medicine: An Epic Saga. The ancient ritual of circumcision, Maimonides, the Bavarian Jacob Henle and Nobel-winner Otto Loewi make appearances in this sweeping history of literary, religious and professional links between Judaism and medical practice. Heynick, a scholar of medical history and linguistics, discusses the sale of mummified remains as a cure for disease, the ascendance of psychoanalysis and hundreds of other famous and obscure historical moments. -Publisher's Weekly.

Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust

Author : Michael A. Grodin, M.D.
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782384189
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust by : Michael A. Grodin, M.D.

Download or read book Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust written by Michael A. Grodin, M.D. and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with infectious diseases, starvation, lack of medicines, lack of clean water, and safe sewage, Jewish physicians practiced medicine under severe conditions in the ghettos and concentration camps of the Holocaust. Despite the odds against them, physicians managed to supply public health education, enforce hygiene protocols, inspect buildings and latrines, enact quarantine, and perform triage. Many gave their lives to help fellow prisoners. Based on archival materials and featuring memoirs of Holocaust survivors, this volume offers a rich array of both tragic and inspiring studies of the sanctification of life as practiced by Jewish medical professionals. More than simply a medical story, these histories represent the finest exemplification of a humanist moral imperative during a dark hour of recent history.

Jewish Medicine

Author : Michael A. Nevins
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595401570
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Medicine written by Michael A. Nevins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although conventional wisdom holds that there's no such thing as "Jewish Medicine," Dr. Nevins disagrees, suggesting it's not so much what Jewish doctors have done as why. For example, in premodern times Jewish doctors viewed their work as a sacred calling in collaboration with God. Later, there often was a perception that Jewish doctors practiced differently because they were familiar with mystical and magical techniques. While many Jewish physicians through the ages have been inspired by such values as selflessness, compassion and profound respect for life itself, contemporary medicine seems to have lost its soul. To rectify this, Dr. Nevins proposes the Jewish cultural icon the "mensch" as a model of virtuous behavior for all doctors to emulate. This book is written for a general audience as well as for physicians. In it Dr. Nevins surveys Jewish medical history and, along the way, describes many remarkable "medical menschen."

Jews and Medicine

Author : Natalia Berger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Jews and Medicine written by Natalia Berger and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Frog Under the Tongue

Author : Marek Tuszewicki
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800858183
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book A Frog Under the Tongue written by Marek Tuszewicki and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Gierowski-Shmeruk Prize Shortlisted for the Folklore Society's Katharine Briggs Award 2021 Jews have been active participants in shaping the healing practices of the communities of eastern Europe. Their approach largely combined the ideas of traditional Ashkenazi culture with the heritage of medieval and early modern medicine. Holy rabbis and faith healers, as well as Jewish barbers, innkeepers, and pedlars, all dispensed cures, purveyed folk remedies for different ailments, and gave hope to the sick and their families based on kabbalah, numerology, prayer, and magical Hebrew formulas. Nevertheless, as new sources of knowledge penetrated the traditional world, modern medical ideas gained widespread support. Jews became court physicians to the nobility, and when the universities were opened up to them many also qualified as doctors. At every stage, medicine proved an important field for cross-cultural contacts. Jewish historians and scholars of folk medicine alike will discover here fascinating sources never previously explored—manuscripts, printed publications, and memoirs in Yiddish and Hebrew but also in Polish, English, German, Russian, and Ukrainian. Marek Tuszewicki's careful study of these documents has teased out therapeutic advice, recipes, magical incantations, kabbalistic methods, and practical techniques, together with the ethical considerations that such approaches entailed. His research fills a gap in the study of folk medicine in eastern Europe, shedding light on little-known aspects of Ashkenazi culture, and on how the need to treat sickness brought Jews and their neighbours together.

The Jewish Doctor

Author : Michael A. Nevins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Doctor written by Michael A. Nevins and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well known that there is a disproportiionate number of Jewish doctors and that the profession of physician has been an important aspect of Jewish life. This fascinating study is a history of the Jewish doctor from ancient times to the present.

Illness and Health in the Jewish Tradition

Author : David L. Freeman (M.D.)
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 9780827606739
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis Illness and Health in the Jewish Tradition by : David L. Freeman (M.D.)

Download or read book Illness and Health in the Jewish Tradition written by David L. Freeman (M.D.) and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The premise of the Jewish attitude toward illness is that living is sacred, that good health enables us to live a fully religious life, and that disease is an evil. Any effective therapy is permitted, even if it conflicts with Jewish law. To bring about healing is a responsibility not only of the person who is ill and of the professional caregivers, but also of the loved ones, and of the larger circle of family, friends, and community." "Illness and Health in the Jewish Tradition is an anthology of traditional and modern Jewish writings that highlights these basic principles."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Jewish Medicine and Healthcare in Central Eastern Europe

Author : Marcin Moskalewicz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331992480X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Medicine and Healthcare in Central Eastern Europe written by Marcin Moskalewicz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is ‘Jewish medicine’ a valid historical category? Does it represent a collective constituted by the interplay of medical, ethnic and religious cultures? Integrating academic disciplines from medical history to philology and Jewish studies, this book aims at answering this question historically by presenting comprehensive coverage of Jewish medical traditions in Central Eastern Europe, mostly on what is today Poland and Germany (and the former Russian, Prussian and Austro-Hungarian Empires). In this significant zone of ethnic, religious and cultural interaction, Jewish, Polish, and German traditions and communities were more entangled, and identities were shared to an extent greater than anywhere else. Starting with early modern times and the Enlightenment, through the 19th century, up until the horrors of medicine in the ghettos and concentration camps, the book collects a variety of perspectives on the question of how Judaism and Jewish culture were dynamically related to medicine and healthcare. It discusses the Halachic traditions, hygiene-related stereotypes, the organization of healthcare within specified communities, academic careers, hybrid medical identities, and diversified medical practices.

The Jews and Medicine : Essays. 1

Author : Harry Friedenwald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Jews and Medicine : Essays. 1 written by Harry Friedenwald and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medicine and the German Jews

Author : John M. Efron
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300133596
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Medicine and the German Jews written by John M. Efron and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine played an important role in the early secularization and eventual modernization of German Jewish culture. And as both physicians and patients Jews exerted a great influence on the formation of modern medical discourse and practice. This fascinating book investigates the relationship between German Jews and medicine from medieval times until its demise under the Nazis. John Efron examines the rise of the German Jewish physician in the Middle Ages and his emergence as a new kind of secular, Jewish intellectual in the early modern period and beyond. The author shows how nineteenth-century medicine regarded Jews as possessing distinct physical and mental pathologies, which in turn led to the emergence in modern Germany of the “Jewish body” as a cultural and scientific idea. He demonstrates why Jews flocked to the medical profession in Germany and Austria, noting that by 1933, 50 percent of Berlin’s and 60 percent of Vienna’s physicians were Jewish. He discusses the impact of this on Jewish and German culture, concluding with the fate of Jewish doctors under the Nazis, whose assault on them was designed to eliminate whatever intimacy had been built up between Germans and their Jewish doctors over the centuries.

Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud

Author : Fred Rosner
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 9780765761026
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud by : Fred Rosner

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud written by Fred Rosner and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud includes many items dealing with the field of Jewish medical ethics and serves as an important tool for those who wish to read about or research medical and related topics as found in traditional biblical and talmudic sources.".

Murderous Medicine

Author : Naomi Baumslag
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 9780275983123
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Murderous Medicine written by Naomi Baumslag and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 1.5 million concentration camp prisoners died of typhus, a preventable disease. Despite advances in public health measures to control and prevent typhus outbreaks, German doctors, fueled by their racist ideology and their medieval approach to the disease, used the disease as a form of biological warfare against Jews, Slavs, and gypsies. Jewish hospitals in ghettos were burned--along with patients and staff--if typhus was present. In concentration camps, even suspected typhus cases were killed in the gas chambers or through intracardiac injections. Typhus vaccines were tested on prisoners deliberately infected with typhus. Only a handful of doctors were ever prosecuted for their crimes. Against all odds, Jewish health providers struggled to avoid the worst through innovative steps to save lives. Despite the removal of their equipment, drugs, and other resources, they organized health care and sanitary hygienic measures. Doctors were forced to conceal cases, falsify diagnoses and cause of death in order to save lives. This important study explores the role of the International Red Cross in typhus epidemics during and after World War I and World War II. It details the widespread complicity of foreign companies in the Nazi typhus research. Finally, the author stresses the importance of monitoring and holding accountable the medical profession, researchers, and drug companies that continue to invest in research on biological agents as weapons of war.

Matters of Life and Death

Author :
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 9780827610224
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Matters of Life and Death written by and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses modern medical ethical dilemas from a specifically conservative Jewish point of view. The author includes issues such as artifical insemination, genetic engineering, cloning, surrogate motherhood, and birth control, as well as living wills, hospice care, euthanasia, organ donation, and autopsy.

Jews, Medicine, and Medieval Society

Author : Joseph Shatzmiller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520913226
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Jews, Medicine, and Medieval Society written by Joseph Shatzmiller and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews were excluded from most professions in medieval, predominantly Christian Europe. Bigotry was widespread, yet Jews were accepted as doctors and surgeons, administering not only to other Jews but to Christians as well. Why did medieval Christians suspend their fear and suspicion of the Jews, allowing them to inspect their bodies, and even, at times, to determine their survival? What was the nature of the doctor-patient relationship? Did the law protect Jewish doctors in disputes over care and treatment? Joseph Shatzmiller explores these and other intriguing questions in the first full social history of the medieval Jewish doctor. Based on extensive archival research in Provence, Spain, and Italy, and a deep reading of the widely scattered literature, Shatzmiller examines the social and economic forces that allowed Jewish medical professionals to survive and thrive in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe. His insights will prove fascinating to scholars and students of Judaica, medieval history, and the history of medicine.

Making Bodies Kosher

Author : Ben Kasstan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789202280
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Making Bodies Kosher written by Ben Kasstan and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Haredi Jews, reproduction is entangled with issues of health, bodily governance and identity. This is an analysis of the ways in which Haredi Jews negotiate healthcare services using theoretical perspectives in political philosophy. This is the first archival and ethnographic study of Haredi Jews in the UK and sits at the intersection of medical anthropology, social history and Jewish studies. It will allow readers to understand how reproductive care issues affect this growing minority population.