Written in a lively and compelling style, this book explains the hidden relationship between Judaism and the world of infectious disease. It combines history, medicine, science, and religion and gives us a new appreciation of how Jews and Judaism have been deeply shaped by plagues and pandemics, from ancient times up to the present.
Written in a lively and compelling style, this book explains the hidden relationship between Judaism and the world of infectious disease. It combines history, medicine, science, and religion and gives us a new appreciation of how Jews and Judaism have been deeply shaped by plagues and pandemics, from ancient times up to the present.
Jeremy Brown is a physician and historian of science and medicine and directs the Office of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health. His previous books include Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History, New Heavens and a New Earth: The Jewish reception of Copernican Thought, Cardiology Emergencies, and as editor, The Oxford American Handbook of Emergency Medicine.
Inhaltsangabe
* 1. Five Golden Swellings; Pandemics in the Bible * 2. The Angel of Death Walks in the Middle of the Road; Pandemics in the Talmud * 3. A World Turned Upside Down; The Black Death and Bubonic Plague * 4. All This Happens because of the Sins of Jacob * 5. Pulverized Toads; Prayers, amulets and miracle workers * 6. A Leaf of Healing; Smallpox, vaccination and hope * 7. Your hand lay heavily on the inhabitants of this land; Cholera * 8. Our Father Our King, Save us from this Plague; Religious responses to epidemics * 9. Proper Precautions; The Jewish immigrant as a carrier of disease * 10. So They Will Not Be Depressed; The Black Wedding * 11. A Pandemic of Ignorance: Vaccination, hysteria and rabbinic responsibility * 12. Jews and Judaism in the age of COVID * 13. Conclusions
* 1. Five Golden Swellings; Pandemics in the Bible * 2. The Angel of Death Walks in the Middle of the Road; Pandemics in the Talmud * 3. A World Turned Upside Down; The Black Death and Bubonic Plague * 4. All This Happens because of the Sins of Jacob * 5. Pulverized Toads; Prayers, amulets and miracle workers * 6. A Leaf of Healing; Smallpox, vaccination and hope * 7. Your hand lay heavily on the inhabitants of this land; Cholera * 8. Our Father Our King, Save us from this Plague; Religious responses to epidemics * 9. Proper Precautions; The Jewish immigrant as a carrier of disease * 10. So They Will Not Be Depressed; The Black Wedding * 11. A Pandemic of Ignorance: Vaccination, hysteria and rabbinic responsibility * 12. Jews and Judaism in the age of COVID * 13. Conclusions
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