Medicine and the German Jews : a history

Author(s)

• Efron, John M.

Bibliographic Information

Medicine and the German Jews : a history

John M. Efron

Yale University Press, c2001

Note

Includes bibliographical references(p. 271-338) and index

Contents of Works

• The emergence of the medieval Jewish physician
• Jewish physicians: in and out of the German ghetto
• Haskalah and healing: Jewish medicine in the age of enlightenment
• The Jewish body degenerate?
• The psychopathology of everyday Jewish life
• In praise of Jewish ritual: modern medicine and the defense of ancient traditions
• Before the storm: Jewish doctors in the Kaiserreich and Weimar Republic

Details

• NCID: BA53304426
• ISBN:
  • 0300083777
• LCCN: 00011315
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Haven
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 343 p.
• Size: 25 cm.
• Classification:
  • LCC : R694
  • DC21 : 610/.89/924043
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Jewish physicians -- Germany -- History
  • LCSH : Jews -- Medicine -- Germany -- History
  • LCSH : Medicine -- Germany -- History
  • MESH : Jews--history
  • MESH : Physicians
  • MESH : History of Medicine
  • MESH : Germany