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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Main Author: Hart, Mitchell Bryan 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2007
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511499074
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511499074
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511499074
Summary: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, widespread views on the salubrious effects of, for example, circumcision, Jewish sexual purity laws, and kosher foods. The Healthy Jew explores this interpretative tradition in the light of a number of broader debates over 'civilization' and 'culture', Orientalism, religion and science (in the wake of Darwin), anti-Semitism and Jewish apologetics, and the scientific and medical discoveries and debates that revolutionized the fields of bacteriology, preventive medicine, and genetics/eugenics
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Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 264 pages)
ISBN:9780511499074
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511499074