The Arts Of Medicine
Medical Perspectives
A roundup of recent nonfiction and fiction
books with medical themes.
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Illness and Health in the Jewish
Tradition: Writings from the Bible to
Today (The Jewish Publication
Society; $24.95) is an anthology of
traditional and modern Jewish writ-
ings on the experience of illness and
healing. Editors David Freeman,
M.D., and Rabbi Judith Abrams,
Ph.D., focus on coping with, enduring
and overcoming disease, even that
which is incurable.
They cover topics including the role
and duties of the physician, reflections
on suffering, prayers for healing, the
pastoral role of the rabbi and the
ethics of caregiving.
Comprised of memoirs, stories,
essays, prayers and poetry, the selec-
tions have been taken from ancient,
medieval and modern sources.
Contributors include scholars, rabbis,
poets and writers, medical profession-
als, storytellers and illness survivors.
David Freeman is a practicing physi-
cian and instructor at Harvard
Medical School. Rabbi Abrams is the
director of Maqom, a school for adult
Talmud study in Houston, Texas.
From biblical times to the present, the
special relationship between Jews and
medicine is traced in Jews and
Medicine: Religion, Culture, Science
(The Jewish Publication Society;
$50).
Edited by Natalia Berger and origi-
nally published in 1995, the book
chronologically traces the most signifi-
cant points of encounter between the
history of the Jewish people and the
history of medicine. It includes 11
essays on such topics as "Healing in
Jewish Lore and Law," "Jewish Folk
Medicine" and "Jewish Women in
Medicine."
Sprinkled with full-color pictures of
manuscripts, posters, postcards, photo-
graphs and sketches taken from Beth
Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldman
Museum of the Jewish Diaspora in
Israel, this work examines two ques-
tions: Does Judaism in itself foster a
special attitude toward medicine? To
what extent did life in the Diaspora
influence the Jewish contribution to
medicine?
Distinguished physicians Meyer
Friedman and Gerald W. Friedland
describe the 10 most significant med-
ical discoveries of the past 450 years in
Medicine's 10 Greatest Discoveries
(Yale University Press; $30).
In selecting and presenting these
tales of scientific discovery, the authors
utilize the expertise of antiquarian
book dealers, collectors of medical
publications and medical school pro-
fessors, and draw on more than 100
years' combined experience in study-
ing, practicing, writing and teaching
medicine.
Beginning with the 1543 publica-
tion of De 1-nimani corporis Pbrica,
Libre septum by Vesalius — "the great-
est medical book to ever appear" —
and ending with the discovery of the
molecular structure of DNA, the
authors single out the top 10 medical
breakthroughs from thousands of can-
didates. Published in 1998. this book
will interest anyone fascinated by the
mysteries of medicine.
Meyer Friedman, M.D., is the dis-
coverer of "Type A" behavior and its
relation to heart disease and the direc-
tor of the Meyer Friedman Institute,
University of California San
Franscisco-Mount Zion Medical
Center. Gerald W. Friedland, M.D., is
professor emeritus in the department
of radiology at the Stanford University
School of Medicine.