Midrash & Medicine (eBook, ePUB)

Healing Body and Soul in the Jewish Interpretive Tradition
Redaktion: Cutter, Rabbi William

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Midrash provides a revolutionary guide through the most difficult passages of our life stories.

This groundbreaking volume examines the spiritual shortfalls of our current healing environment and explores how midrash can help you see beyond the physical aspects of healing to tune in to your spiritual source.

Pushing the boundaries of Jewish knowledge, physicians, rabbis, social workers, psychologists and philosophers investigate the role of midrashic thinking in addressing seemingly intractable social and personal issues. Topics discussed include:

• How metaphors and parables can aid healing
• How Jewish tradition can inform and enrich health, hospice and nursing-home care
• New ways of reading Jewish texts in the discussion of medical ethics
• The role of community in addressing aging, loss and suffering.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580235914
• Artikelnr.: 49987840

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Michele F. Prince, LCSW, MAJCS Acknowledgments Introduction
1 METAPHORS AND SIDE EFFECTS L'Mashal: Metaphor and Meaning in Illness
Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub, LCSW From Heaven to Hypochondria: Metaphors of
Jewish Healing Stuart Schoffman, MPhil
2 THE NARROW PLACE FROM WHICH HEALING COMES, AND THE EXPANSIVE EDGE OF THE
CONTINENT Surviving the Narrow Places: Judah and Joseph and the Journey to
Wholeness Rabbi Norman J. Cohen, PhD Widening the Boundaries Rabbi Eric
Weiss
3 LYRIC AND COMMUNITY The Midrashic Impulse in Poems, Our Dialogue with
Ecclesiastes, and Other Lyrical Interpretations Rabbi William Cutter, PhD
"Psalms, Songs & Stories": Midrash and Music at the Jewish Home of San
Francisco Rabbi Sheldon Marder
4 GOD IN THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE: SOME MIDRASHIC ELABORATIONS Talking to
Physicians about Talking about God: A Midrashic Invitation Rabbi William
Cutter, PhD A Physician's Response to the Midrashic Invitation Ronald M.
Andiman, MD
5 CONTEXTS OF SUFFERING, CONTEXTS OF HOPE Neither Suffering nor Its
Rewards: A Story about Intimacy and Dealing with Suffering and with Death
Ruhama Weiss, PhD The Experience of Suffering: A Response to Ruhama Weiss
Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, PhD
6 MIDRASHIC RENDERINGS OF AGE AND OBLIGATION After the Life Cycle: The
Moral Challenges of Later Life Thomas R. Cole, PhD The Journey of Later
Life: Moses as Our Guide Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman, MSW, MAJCS, BCC
7 NARRATIVE AND LOSS Words in the Dark: A Personal Journey Eitan Fishbane,
PhD Reflections on the Dark Linda Raphael, PhD
8 THE DILEMMAS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY; THE HEALING RESPONSE OF MIDRASH The Danger
of Cure, the Value of Healing: Toward a Midrashic Way of Being Philip
Cushman, PhD Midrashic Thinking: An Appreciation and a Caution Rabbi Lewis
M. Barth, PhD
9 THE NARRATIVE TURN IN JEWISH BIOETHICS Aggadah and Midrash: A New
Direction for Bioethics? Rabbi Leonard A. Sharzer, MD Jewish Bioethics:
Between Interpretation and Criticism Jonathan Cohen, PhD
10 WHAT TAKES PLACE AND WHAT CAN BE CHANGED A Midrash on the Mi Sheberakh:
A Prayer for Persisting Rabbi Julie Pelc Adler The Human Body and the Body
Politic Rabbi Richard Address, DMin
Notes Credits