Author: Aaron FriedenwaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Jewish Physicians and the Contributions of the Jews to the Science of Medicine
Author: Aaron FriedenwaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Jewish Physicians and the Contributions of the Jews to the Science of Medicine
Author: Aaron FriedenwaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures
Author: Gad FreudenthalPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107001455
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Provides the first comprehensive overview by world-renowned experts of what we know today of medieval Jews' engagement with the sciences.
Jewish Physicians and the Contributions of the Jews to the Science of Medicine
Author: Aaron FriedenwaldPublisher:
ISBN: 9781296532604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures
Author: Jewish Medical Practitioners in the Medieval Muslim World
Author: Efraim LevPublisher: Non-Muslim Contributions to Is
ISBN: 9781474483971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
This book collects and analyses the available biographical data on 600 Jewish medical practitioners in the 9-16th century Muslim world. Both the biographies and the accompanying discussion shed light on both the medicine of the period and practitioners' professional, daily and personal lives; Jewish communities; and inter-religious affairs.
Religion, Health and Suffering
Author: John R. HinnellsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136175857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
First Published in 1999. The interaction between religion and medicine is universal throughout recorded history. They meet at the great turning points of life: at birth, at moments of acute suffering and at death. Not only are priest and doctor often needed at the same time and place, the two roles have also been combined in ancient and modem societies. This volume looks at whether healers and religions have worked in harmony or been in conflict, as well as their frequent and substantive interaction. An International Workshop lies behind this volume and one of the distinctive features of this project is that it brought together scholars of religion, historians of medicine, anthropologists and medical practitioners.
Jewish Medicine
Author: Michael A. NevinsPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595401570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
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."
Medicine and the German Jews
Author: John M. EfronPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133596
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
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.
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