The healthy Jew : the symbiosis of Judaism and modern medicine /

The Healthy Jew traces the culturally revealing story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Such a radically different interpretation, by scholars and popular writers alike, resulted in new, widespr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hart, Mitchell B., 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Temas:
Medicine > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Health > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Jews > Health and hygiene > History.
Medicine > History.
Medicine in the Bible.
Jews > Dietary laws.
Tuberculosis > Treatment.
Medicine > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Médecine > Aspect religieux > Judaïsme.
Juifs > Santé et hygiène > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire.
Médecine dans la Bible.
Juifs > Lois alimentaires.
Tuberculose > Traitement.
Médecine > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
history of medicine.
RELIGION > Judaism > Theology.
Jews > Health and hygiene.
Medicine.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "'Tis a little people, but it has done great things" : the role of health and medicine in modern Jewish apologetics
  • Moses the microbiologist : Alfred Nossig's The social hygiene of the Jews
  • Healthy Hebrews, healthy Jews : the Bible as a sanitary code in Anglo-American medical literature
  • From ghetto to jungle : Darwinism, eugenics, and the reinterpretation of Jewish history
  • TB or not TB, that was a Jewish question : Moses, kashrut, and the prevention of tuberculosis
  • "Then what advantage does the Jew have?" : Judaism as a model for Christian health
  • Conclusion.

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