The healthy Jew : the symbiosis of Judaism and modern medicine / Mitchell B. Hart.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

x, 264 pages ; 24 cm

"'Tis a little people, but it has done great things" : the role of health and medicine in modern Jewish apologetics -- Moses the microbiologist : Alfred Nossig's The social hygiene of the Jews -- Healthy Hebrews, healthy Jews : the Bible as a sanitary code in Anglo-American medical literature -- From ghetto to jungle : Darwinism, eugenics, and the reinterpretation of Jewish history -- TB or not TB, that was a Jewish question : Moses, kashrut, and the prevention of tuberculosis -- "Then what advantage does the Jew have?" : Judaism as a model for Christian health .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-258) and index.