Medicine From Biblical Canaan to Modern Israel

by Stanton, Stuart; Collins, Kenneth

• ISBN13: 9781912676736
• ISBN10: 1912676737
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-05-20
• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell

Summary

Leading historians and physicians take us from Babylonian medical records and their influence on the Talmud, through the Biblical and Talmudic periods to developments during Ottoman times and finally the British Mandate. Included in the comprehensive coverage of topics are a chapter on Military Medicine covering the Crusaders, Napoleon, Allenby and medical innovations from Israel’s wars; while the traditional medicine of Arabs and Jews and the history of Islamic medicine is also presented. It considers medical care in contemporary Israel. The modern era chapters consider the delivery of health care and its parameters, emergency medicine and key ethical issues which have impacted on medicine. Two chapters describe the importance of rehabilitation medicine, for Israel’s disabled, and the growing interest in complementary and alternative medicine. The book concludes with a chapter on medicine in Israel today highlighting the research and innovation for which Israel is known. This book will appeal to those interested in the history of medicine from ancient to modern times, and those who wish to see how important aspects of medicine are provided in today’s Israel.

Author Biography

Stuart Stanton is retired Professor of Urogynaecology, London University. He has worked as a volunteer physician at Hadassah, Ein Kerem and helped pioneer Urogynaecology in Israel. Kenneth Collins is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Glasgow and Visiting Professor, History of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword by Leslie Turnberg
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction
1, Introduction to Theory in Babylonian Medicine
2, Surgery and Medicine in the Bible and Talmud
3, Islamic and Jewish Traditional Medicine
A. Islamic: Aspects of Amulets, Charms and Evil Eye
B. Traditional Jewish Medicine
4, Islamic Medicine from the Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries
5, The History of Military Medicine in the Holy Land
6, Health and Medical Services in Ottoman Eretz Israel
7, Medicine in British Palestine, 1919-1948
8, Health Schemes and Health in Israel
9, Rehabilitation Medicine in Palestine and Israel
10, Emergency Medical Services in Israel and Abroad
A. Magen David Adom
B. United Hatzalah
11, Medical Ethics in Israel
12, Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Israel
13, Medicine in Israel Today
Index