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Waserman, Manfred - Kottek, Samuel S. (eds.), Health and disease in the Holy Land: studies in the history and sociology of medicine from ancient times to the present, Lewiston, N.Y., Edwin Mellen Press, 1996, XII+489 pp.
- Resum
- This text examines the history and sociology of medicine from ancient times to the present. Chapter topics include: paleopathology in the Middle East; hygiene and health care in the Bible; public health in the Holy Land - classical influence and its legacy; health and healing in Medieval Muslim Palestine; disease to death during the Crusades; medicine in the Crusaders' Kingdom of Jerusalem; Pilgrims, Crusades and plagues; Ottoman Palestine (1516-1800) - health, disease and historical sources; Sir Moses Montefiore and medical philanthropy in the Holy Land; hospitals and European Colonial policies in the 19th and early 20th centuries; Henrietta Szold - American profressivism, Zionism and modern public health; British public health policy in Palestine, 1918-1947; Kupat Holim and Jewish health services during the Mandate; the Hadassah medical organization critical years, 1928-1959 - oral history interviews with Dr. Eli Davis; the conquest of malaria; Judea-Samaria and Gaza - 25 years of changing health, 1967-1992; and health and disease in Israel.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Guerra
- Notes
- Conté (entre d'altres):
Ficarra (1996), "Disease to death during the ..."
Klein-Franke (1996), "Health and healing in medieval ..."
Newmyer (1996), "Public health in the Holy Land ..."
Dolev (1996), "Medicine in the Crusaders' ..."
Ell (1996), "Pilgrims, crusades and plagues"
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