Jeremy Brown (Di Director of the Office of Emergency Care Research

The Eleventh Plague

Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to COVID-19

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 168mm x 243mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 818g
• ISBN-13: 9780197607183
• ISBN-10: 0197607187
• Artikelnr.: 62609422

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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