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

Gebundenes Buch

Eleventh Plague

Jews and Pandemics from the Bible to Covid-19

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 506
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 818g
• ISBN-13: 9780197607183
• ISBN-10: 0197607187
• Artikelnr.: 62609422