The healthy Jew
Subtitle: the symbiosis of Judaism and modern medicine
By: Mitchell B. Hart.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780521877183
Subjects: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "'Tis a little people, but it has done great things" : the role of health and medicine in modern Jewish apologetics; title: Moses the microbiologist : Alfred Nossig's The social hygiene of the Jews; title: Healthy Hebrews, healthy Jews : the Bible as a sanitary code in Anglo-American medical literature; title: From ghetto to jungle : eugenics, social darwinism, and the reinterpretation of Jewish history; title: Tb or not tb, that was a Jewish question : kashrut and the prevention of tuberculosis; title: "Then what advantage does the Jew have?" : Judaism as a model for Christian health.