I n t e r n a t i o n a l S u m m e r C o n f e r e n c e
O r g a n i s e d j o i n t l y b y t h e
Institute of Jewish Studies , UCL
a n d t h e
Jewish Medical Association ( UK)
Defining Jewish Medicine
27th - 29th July 2014
UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
The association between Jewish doctors and their calling has roots
which go back to the Babylonian
Talmud and proceed throughout the Middle Ages into modernity, with
major contributions to
medicine being made by Jewish practitioners. A fundamental aspect of
this question is how to define
'Jewish medicine' throughout its long history. Developing a clear
profile will have considerable
influence on the way we view the connection between Jews and medicine.
This conference will
present different aspects of research on Jewish medicine - its
origins, its historical context, how
medicine could be influenced by Jewish law and custom (halachah) and
how the role of the Jewish
doctor has evolved over the centuries.
This conference is funded by a grant from the Wellcome Trust
P R O G R A M M E
Monday 28th July
Medicine in the Talmud and Middle Ages
Venue: J.Z Young lecture theatre, Anatomy Building
09.45 Mark Geller (UCL / Freie Universität Berlin) - Welcome and
Introduction
10.15 Ulrike STEINERT (Freie Universität Berlin) - Concepts of the
female body in Mesopotamian
gynaecological texts
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Tzvi LANGERMANN (Bar-Ilan University) -Nu'man al-Isra'ili's
unstudied commentary on Abu
Sahl al-Masihi's Kitab al-Mi'a
12.15 Gerrit BOS (University of Cologne) and Guido Mensching
(University of Göttingen) - Jewish
multilingualism in medieval medical lexicography and translations
13.00 Lunch break (lunch not provided)
15.15 Lennart LEHMHAUS (Freie Universität Berlin) - On the medical
discourse(s) in the two
Talmudim
16.00 Tea
16.30 Gad FREUDENTHAL (University of Geneva) - Philosophy and Medicine in
Jewish
Provence, Anno 1199: Samuel Ibn Tibbon and Doeg the Edomite
Translating Galen’s Tegni
17.15 Justine ISSERLES (UCL) -Bloodletting and medical astrology in
Hebrew manuscripts from
medieval Western Europe (13th-15th c.)
Tuesday 29th July
Medicine, Jewish Medical Ethics and Jews
Venue: J.Z Young lecture theatre, Anatomy Building
9.45 Samuel KOTTEK (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) - The Physician in
Bible and Talmud:
Between the Lord and the Ailing.
10.30 Alan JOTKOWITZ (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) -The role of
Talmudic Narratives in the
Development of Jewish Medical Ethics
11.15 Coffee
11.45 Shimon GLICK (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) - 20th century
Jewish medical ethics -a
historic overview
12.30 Lunch break (lunch not provided)
14.00 Avraham STEINBERG (Hebrew University and Shaarei Zedek Hospital,
Jerusalem) - “Nature has
changed" – Talmudic and modern medicine re halakhic decisions
14.45 Kenneth COLLINS (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of
Glasgow) - The Entry of Jews
to the Medical Schools of Early Modern Europe
15.30 Tea
16.00 Gerry BLACK (Past President, Jewish Historical Society of
England) - Lord Rothschild and the
Barber. The struggle to establish the London Jewish Hospital.
16.45 Paul WEINDLING (Oxford Brookes University) - Jewish Victims of
Nazi Medical and Racial
Research, and their Responses
17.30 David R Katz (UCL) - Concluding remarks
Institute of Jewish Studies, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
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