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The Eleventh Plague
Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19
Buch von Jeremy Brown
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780197607183
ISBN-10: 0197607187
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Brown, Jeremy
Hersteller: Oxford University Press Inc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 168 x 243 x 42 mm
Von/Mit: Jeremy Brown
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.03.2023
Gewicht: 0,818 kg
Artikel-ID: 120569008
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780197607183
ISBN-10: 0197607187
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Brown, Jeremy
Hersteller: Oxford University Press Inc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 168 x 243 x 42 mm
Von/Mit: Jeremy Brown
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.03.2023
Gewicht: 0,818 kg
Artikel-ID: 120569008
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