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Medicine and the German Jews : a history / John M. Efron.

Author/creator Efron, John M.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press, ©2001.
Descriptionviii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 271-338) and index.
LCCN 00011315
ISBN0300083777 (cloth : alk. paper)

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