Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. The Emergence of the Medieval Jewish Physician 13
6. Chapter 2. Jewish Physicians: In and Out of the German Ghetto 34
7. Chapter 3. Haskalah and Healing: Jewish Medicine in the Age of Enlightenment 64
8. Chapter 4. The Jewish Body Degenerate? 105
9. Chapter 5. The Psychopathology of Everyday Jewish Life 151
10. Chapter 6. In Praise of Jewish Ritual: Modern Medicine and the Defense of Ancient Traditions 186
11. Chapter 7. Before the Storm: Jewish Doctors in the Kaiserreich and Weimar Republic 234
12. Conclusion 265
13. Notes 271
14. Index 339