"Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In "Health Humanities Reader," editors The ..."
"Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In "Health Humanities Reader," editors The ..."
"In Health Humanities Reader, editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the ..."
"... Claudia Hummel and Andreas Krüger, 57–69. Berlin: Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Internationalen Informationsaustausches, 2OO2. Mack, Michael. German Idealism and the Jew: The Inner Antisemitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses ..."
"The story thus anticipates the core themes of Zweig's final work, The World of
Yesterday, with its idealized portrayals of the cosmopolitan Austro-Hungarian
Empire as a model Europe and Zweig's profound sense of homelessness after its
ending. Joseph Roth's Hotel Patriotism Zweig's story shares many similarities
with the portrayals of Eastern Jews in the works of his close friend, Joseph Roth.
Born in 1894 in Brody, a town in Easter ..."
The Jew s Body(1st Edition) (Hardback) by SanderGilman Hardcover, 316 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-14577-1, ISBN: 1-138-14577-7
"Drawing on a wealth of medical and historical materials, Sander Gilman sketches details of the anti-Semitic rhetoric about the Jewish body and mind, including medical and popular depictions of the Jewish voice, feet, and nose."
"... Australians and Chinese spouses ... Some, like me, are short timers. Others
have been here for more than 20 years. I am spending the two seder nights of
Passover with members of the Kehillat community. The first is at the home of the
Silbershats, an Israeli couple, whom I quickly discovered are cousins of friends in
Santa Fe. Joining me will be other Americans and a couple from France. The
second night, I will attend the commun ..."
"Rendering Palestinians 'intelligible' to global Jews In a recent analysis of tourism
in the Middle East, anthropologist Rebecca Stein documents the emergence of
routes that developed during the Oslo peace negotiations of the 1990s.14 Oslo
brought Israeli Jews into increased contact with Palestinian Israelis, Palestinians
in the Territories, and beyond to Jordan and Egypt. To frame her critical analysis,
Stein advances the concept o ..."
The Jew's Body by SanderGilman 316 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-136-03878-5, ISBN: 1-136-03878-7
"Natvig, Jacques Joseph, p. 71. 63. See the comments by Eugen Hollander, "Die
kosmetische Chirurgie," in Max Joseph, ed., Handbuch der Kosmetik (Leipzig:
Veit & Comp., 1912), pp. 669-712, here p. 673. 64. Natvig, Jacques Joseph, p.
179. 65. Natvig, Jacques Joseph, p. 95. 66. See Sander L. Gilman, Disease and
Representation: Images of I llness from Madness to AIDS (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 1988), pp. 182-201. 67. Frank J ..."
"Sander Gilman. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Intersexuality: From the Age of Gonads to the
Age of Consent,” Journal of Clinical Ethics 9 (1998): 345–55; idem, ed., Intersex
in the Age of Ethics (Hagerstown, Md.: University Publishing Group, 1999);
andidem,“Jarring Bodies: Thoughts on the Display of Unusual Anatomies,”
Perspectives in Biologyand Medicine 43 (2000): 161–72. Rainer Herrn ... Hubert
Kennedy, Ulrichs: The Life and Works of Ka ..."
"Lewis S. Feuer, Einstein and the Generations of Science (New Brunswick, N.J.:
Transaction, 1982), xv. Alice Calaprice, ed., The Expanded Quotable Einstein (
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000), 126. “I discovered for the first
time [in 1914] that I was aJew. I owed this discovery more to ... Feuer, Einstein
and the Generations ofScience, xxvii. Reproduced in William Cahn, Einstein: A
Pictorial Biography (New York: Cit ..."
"Gene A. Budig tells the personalized stories of nine exceptional Americans---people who knew what they wanted in life and followed difficult paths to achieve admirable ends. In this sequel to his earlier book, Grasping the Ring, Budig profiles Rachel Robinson, widow of baseball's Jackie Robinson and a remarkable woman in her own right; Bill Veeck, a showman and owner of three baseball teams who helped teach fans how to laugh and have fu ..."
"This interdisciplinary anthology explores the impact of current globalization processes on Jewish communities across the globe. The volume explores the extent to which nationalized constructs of Jewish culture and identity still dominate Jewish self-expressions, as well as the discourses about them, in the rapidly globalizing world of the twenty-first century. Its contributions address the ways in which Jewishness is now understood as t ..."
"Writing on Berlin's new Jewish Museum and other memorials, the state of multiculturalism in Germany, or future of german culture in a unified Europe, the voices in this volume lay before us the questions that face not only Germany but anyone concerned with Germany's history and the future of Europe."
"It was organized by Sander L. Gilman, the Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service
Professor of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Chicago,
andTodd Herzog, of the Department of Germanic Studies there, with the
assistance of Hillarv Hope Herzog, Sharlyn Rhee, James Cantranella, Anke
Pinkert, and Ashley Passmore. The spiritus rector of this event was the German
counsel -general in Chicago, Michael Engelhard. A true pol ..."
"Insiders and Outsiders addresses various aspects of Jewish and Gentile interaction since the development of the German-Jewish literary and cultural identity in the early 19th century. As the essays in the volume demonstrate German identity has been inextricably entangled with the presence of its archetypal "other"-the Jewish minority-since the Enlightenment. The common history of German Jews and Gentiles reveals a pattern of unsuccessfu ..."