The healthy Jew
Hart, Mitchell Bryan, 1959-
The healthy Jew the symbiosis of Judaism and modern medicine / [electronic resource] : Mitchell B. Hart. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. - x, 264 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-258) and index.
"'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.
Electronic reproduction.
Boulder, Colo. :
NetLibrary,
2007.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.
9780511335525 (electronic bk.) 0511335520 (electronic bk.)
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.
Electronic books.
BM538.H43 / H37 2007eb
296.3/76
The healthy Jew the symbiosis of Judaism and modern medicine / [electronic resource] : Mitchell B. Hart. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. - x, 264 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-258) and index.
"'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.
Electronic reproduction.
Boulder, Colo. :
NetLibrary,
2007.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.
9780511335525 (electronic bk.) 0511335520 (electronic bk.)
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.
Electronic books.
BM538.H43 / H37 2007eb
296.3/76
