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    Medycyna i język – język medycyny

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  • Jewish Medicine and Healthcare in Central Eastern Europe

    Shared Identities, Entangled Histories

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Is ‘Jewish medicine’ a valid historical category? Does it represent a collective constituted by the interplay of medical, ethnic and religious cultures? Integrating academic disciplines from medical history to philology and Jewish studies, this book aims at answering this question historically by presenting comprehensive coverage of Jewish medical traditions in Central Eastern Europe, mostly on ... Read more

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