Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud

"This new reference work allows readers to share in the centuries-old fascination of the study of medicine in the Bible and Talmud. In the Middle Ages, the majority of the best known Jewish thinkers, philosophers, poets and grammarians were physicians by occupation - men like Maimonides, the Ibn Ezras, the Tibbons, and countless others. Since the first systematic treatises on medicine in the Bible and Talmud were published in the seventeenth century, a great number of people, Jews and non-Jews, physicians, scientists, historians, clergy, and laymen have contributed, in varying degrees, to this field. The extraordinarily high number of Jews among Nobel Prize winners for medicine and physiology during the twentieth century attests to the age old interest and expertise in medicine among Jews.". "Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud includes many items dealing with the field of Jewish medical ethics and serves as an important tool for those who wish to read about or research medical and related topics as found in traditional biblical and talmudic sources.". "This important volume can thus serve as a starting point for further reading and research into interesting topics of Jewish medical history including bloodletting, castration, chicken soup, climatotherapy, contraception, cremation, deafness, and several hundred more."--BOOK JACKET.