Alan M Kraut, Deborah Kraut

Covenant of Care

Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Where were you born? Were you born at the Beth? Many thousands of Americans-Jewish and non-Jewish-were born at a hospital bearing the Star of David and named Beth Israel, Mount Sinai, or Montefiore. In the United States, health care has been bound closely to the religious impulse. Newark Beth Israel Hospital is a distinguished modern medical institution in New Jersey whose history opens a window on American health care, the immigrant experience, and urban life. Alan M. and Deborah A. Kraut tell the story of this important institution, illuminating the broader history of voluntary nonprofit hospitals created under religious auspices initially to serve poor immigrant communities. Like so many Jewish hospitals in the early half of the twentieth century, "the Beth" cared not only for its own community's poor and underprivileged, a responsibility grounded in the Jewish traditions of tzedakah ("justice") and tikkun olam ("to heal the world"), but for all Newarkers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 160mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780813539102
• ISBN-10: 0813539102
• Artikelnr.: 21493162

Autorenporträt

Kraut, Alan M

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 "Trouble in the Beth Israel Hospital Association"
2 The formative years
3 From little house on the hill to modern institution
4 A modern hospital surviving depression and war
5 Medicine at the Beth, 1928-1947
6 The modern institution at midcentury
7 Medical research at midcentury
8 Redefining the Beth's community
9 The changing shape of health care
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Appendix
Notes
A Note on Sources
Index