Healing and the Jewish Imagination

Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, OH. Discusses relationship between classical Jewish perspectives and contemporary health issues. Topics include healing and curing, importance of the individual in Jewish thought and writing, hope and the Hebrew bible, overcoming stigma, Jewish bioethics in story and law, and more. For practitioners.

Introduction : the intersection of Judaism and health	p. 1
Healing and curing	p. 3
A physician's reflection on the Jewish healing movement	p. 11
The importance of the individual in Jewish thought and writing	p. 13
Choose life : American Jews and the quest for healing	p. 15
Literature and the tragic vision	p. 42
Health and healing among the mystics	p. 49
Mystical sources of the healing movement	p. 51
Wisdom, balance, healing : reflections on mind and body in an early hasidic text	p. 63
Hope and the Hebrew Bible	p. 75
Reading the Bible as a healing text	p. 77
"Call me bitterness" : individual responses to despair	p. 95
From disability to enablement	p. 105
Judaism and the disabled : the need for a Copernican revolution	p. 107
Misheberach and the ADA : a response to Elliot Dorff	p. 121
Overcoming stigma	p. 131
Spoiled identity and the search for holiness : stigma, death, and the Jewish community	p. 133
Those who turn away their faces : Tzaraat and stigma	p. 142
The new man, illness, and healing	p. 160
Jewish bioethics in story and law	p. 169
An expanded approach to Jewish bioethics : a liberal/aggadic approach	p. 171
The narrative and the normative : the value of stories for Jewish ethics	p. 183
Conclusion : looking back, moving forward	p. 193
The history of invention : doctors, medicine, and Jewish culture	p. 195
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