Medicine and the German Jews

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Content Description The emergence of the medieval Jewish physician -- Jewish physicians: in and out of the German ghetto -- Haskalah and healing: Jewish medicine in the age of enlightenment -- The Jewish body degenerate? -- The psychopathology of everyday Jewish life -- In praise of Jewish ritual: modern medicine and the defense of ancient traditions -- Before the storm: Jewish doctors in the Kaiserreich and Weimar Republic.