EAN: 9783319924793

JEWISH MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE IN CENTRAL EASTE...

Is 'Jewish medicine' a valid historical category? Does it represent a collective constituted by
the interplay of medical  ethnic and religious cultures? Integrating academic disciplines from
medical history to philology and Jewish studies  this book aims at answering this question
historically by presenting comprehensive coverage of Jewish medical traditions in Central
Eastern Europe  mostly on what is today Poland and Germany (and the former Russian  Prussian
and Austro-Hungarian Empires). In this significant zone of ethnic  religious and cultural
interaction  Jewish  Polish  and German traditions and communities were more entangled  and
identities were shared to an extent greater than anywhere else. Starting with early modern
times and the Enlightenment  through the 19th century  up until the horrors of medicine in the
ghettos and concentration camps  the book collects a variety of perspectives on the question of
how Judaism and Jewish culture were dynamically related to medicine and healthcare. It
discusses the Halachic traditions  hygiene-related stereotypes  the organization of healthcare
within specified communities  academic careers  hybrid medical identities  and diversified
medical practices.

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