ISBN:
0521877180
,
9780521877183
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 264 S.
Year of publication:
2007
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Hart, Mitchell Bryan, 1959 - The healthy Jew
DDC:
296.3/76
Keywords:
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
;
Medizinische Ethik
;
Jüdische Ethik
;
Medizin
;
Judentum
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"'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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contributor biographical information
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