Efron, John M.

Medicine and the German Jews a history / [electronic resource] : John M. Efron. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001. - viii, 343 p. : ill.

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

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Jewish physicians--History.--Germany
Jews--Medicine--History.--Germany
Medicine--History.--Germany


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