Jews and Medicine: An Epic SagaKTAV Publishing House, Inc., 2002 - 602 страници Jews have long been recognized by friend and foe as medical superstars. They have filled the ranks of physicians out of all proportion to their numbers. One might almost say that medicine has been the Jewish profession. This book tells the history of Jews in medicine as a flowing epic, from the (pre-) biblical era to the Nobel Prize winners of the twentieth century, from the Middle East through the countries of Europe, to the Orient and to America--always against the backdrop of the cultural, religious, political, and scientific developments of the times, It is a fascinating and valuable tale of scientific achievement. |
Съдържание
The Wandering Jew as Doctor | 1 |
A Serpent upon a Pole 19 | 22 |
Hellas and Talmud | 49 |
The Doctor Who Could Stop the Crescent from Waning | 87 |
A Tale of Two Peninsulas | 123 |
The Fifth Element from the Orient | 145 |
The Stars across the Pyrenees | 165 |
The Sage of Amsterdam | 191 |
The Magic Bullet in Frankfurt | 335 |
Vienna City of Dreams | 363 |
Blood Germs and Genes in the Third Reich | 399 |
The War of the Microbes at Oxford | 445 |
Heralding the American Century | 473 |
From the Soil of the New World | 515 |
Epilogue | 549 |
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Enlightenment under the North German Sun | 211 |
The Subvisible Botanist of Breslau | 247 |
The Molecular Locksmith from Strehlen | 271 |
A Russians Amoebae to the Rescue | 301 |
List of Jewish Nobel Laureates in Medicine | 574 |
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