Overview
- Brings together an international group of Jewish studies scholars
- Is a unique contribution to the debate on Jewishness and Jewish identity in the medical context
- Presents new pathways in integrating the history of racial medicine and the Shoa in a wider historical and cultural context
- Initiates methodological debate
Part of the book series: Religion, Spirituality and Health: A Social Scientific Approach (RELSPHE, volume 3)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Between Religious and Medical Authority: Early Modern Jewish Care for Body and Soul
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Modern Jewish Healthcare: Community and the State
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Shared Identities
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Jewish Doctors in the Face of Terror and Extermination
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Fritz Dross studied history and information science at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf (Germany). In 2002 he defended his PhD in modern history (Krankenhaus und lokale Politik, 1770-1850). In 2004 he became Assistant Professor at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics in Erlangen. In 2010 he completed his habilitation (venia legendi) with a work on late medieval and early modern urban leper care. He is currently Associate Professor at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). He is current President of the German Society for the History of Hospitals (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Krankenhausgeschichte), and the German-Polish Society for the History of Medicine.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Jewish Medicine and Healthcare in Central Eastern Europe
Book Subtitle: Shared Identities, Entangled Histories
Editors: Marcin Moskalewicz, Ute Caumanns, Fritz Dross
Series Title: Religion, Spirituality and Health: A Social Scientific Approach
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92480-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92479-3Published: 25 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06441-9Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92480-9Published: 12 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2627-6011
Series E-ISSN: 2627-602X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 277
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Jewish Cultural Studies, History of Science, Religion and Health, European History, Memory Studies