Jewish Medicine and Healthcare in Central Eastern Europe Shared Identities, Entangled Histories /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Moskalewicz, Marcin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Caumanns, Ute (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dross, Fritz (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Religion, Spirituality and Health: A Social Scientific Approach, 3
• Subjects: Religion and sociology.; Judaism and culture.; History.; Health-Religious aspects.; Europe-History.; Historiography.; Sociology of Religion.; Jewish Cultural Studies.; History of Science.; Religion and Health.; European History.; Memory Studies.

Is 'Jewish medicine' a valid historical category? Does it represent a collective constituted by the interplay of medical, ethnic and religious cultures? Integrating academic disciplines from medical history to philology and Jewish studies, this book aims at answering this question historic...