Medicine and the German Jews : a history / John M. Efron.

New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2001], ©2001.

viii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes index and bibliography: p. 271-338.

The emergence of the medieval Jewish physician -- Jewish physicians: in and out of the German ghetto -- Haskalah and healing: Jewish medicine in the age of enlightenment -- The Jewish body degenerate? -- The psychopathology of everyday Jewish life -- In praise of Jewish ritual: modern medicine and the defense of ancient traditions -- Before the storm: Jewish doctors in the Kaiserreich and Weimar Republic.