Jews and Medicine
Author | : Frank Heynick |
Publisher | : KTAV Publishing House, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 2002 |
ISBN-10 | : 0881257737 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780881257731 |
Rating | : 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: From the Middle East B.C.E. to medieval Spain through the end of WWII, Frank Heynick traces the relationship between a people and a science in Jews and Medicine: An Epic Saga. The ancient ritual of circumcision, Maimonides, the Bavarian Jacob Henle and Nobel-winner Otto Loewi make appearances in this sweeping history of literary, religious and professional links between Judaism and medical practice. Heynick, a scholar of medical history and linguistics, discusses the sale of mummified remains as a cure for disease, the ascendance of psychoanalysis and hundreds of other famous and obscure historical moments. -Publisher's Weekly.