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

Contributor(s): Berger, Natalia | Bet ha-tefutsot ʻal shem Naḥum Goldman
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 275 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0827606443Subject(s): Jews -- Medicine -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 610/.89/924 LOC classification: R135.5 | .J49 1995Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (page 271).
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.

"Based on the exhibit at Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora."

Includes bibliographical references (page 271).

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.

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