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The healthy Jew [electronic resource] : the symbiosis of Judaism and modern medicine / Mitchell B. Hart.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.Description: x, 264 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780511335525 (electronic bk.)
  • 0511335520 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 296.3/76 22
LOC classification:
  • BM538.H43 H37 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
"'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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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.

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