Jews and Health

Jews and Health

Tradition, History, and Practice

Hezser, Catherine

Brill

01/2023

264

Dura

Inglês

9789004541207

15 a 20 dias

580

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Contents


List of Contributors





1 Introduction: The Significance of Health in Jewish History, Culture, and Society


?Catherine Hezser





2 Trauma, Brokenness and Pain in the Book of Lamentations: Empathetic Attention as a Hermeneutic for Thinking about the Restoration of Health


?Katherine E. Southwood





3 Health and Hellenism: Philo of Alexandria's Discourse on Health in the Context of Greek Philosophy and Hippocratic Medicine


?Catherine Hezser





4 Definitions of the Human Body and the Order of Creation in Rabbinic Literature


?Reuven Kiperwasser





5 Physical Strength and Weakness as Means of Social Stratification in Palestinian Rabbinic Discourse of Late Antiquity


?Catherine Hezser





6 Medieval Jewish Views on the Preservation of Health at the Crossroads of the Arabic and Latin Medical Traditions


?Carmen Caballero Navas





7 "The Trouble That Stalks in Darkness" (Ps 91:6): Jewish Resilience During the Plague in Early Modern Prague


?Maria Diemling





8 Humoral Regimens of Health in the Jewish Medical Cultures of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries


?Magdalena Janosikova





9 Somatic and Spiritual Health in Times of Change: Kabbalists, Rabbis and New Approaches to Medicine in the Eighteenth Century


?Nimrod Zinger





10 Health as a Jewish National Ideal in Early Zionist Writings


?Catherine Hezser





11 Quality of Life versus Sanctity of Life: Euthanasia in Modern Halakhic Discourse and in Israeli Law


?Irit Offer Stark and William Friedman





Subject Index
Bible; Hellenism; Judaism; Kabbalah; Philo of Alexandria; Rabbinic; Zionism; body; doctors; euthanasia; healthcare; medical; medicine; physicians; plague; trauma