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Health and Disease in the Holy Land Studies in the History and Sociology of Medicine From Ancient Times to the Present

Author: Kottek, Samuel
SKU: PMRT.GEN.7642.04131

$323.65

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Number of Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780773487642
Publication Date: 1996
Condition: New

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Chapters 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 Progressivism, 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; Health and Disease in Israel, 1948-1994

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