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Midrash & Medicine

Editat de William Cutter Prefață de Michele F. Prince
en Limba Engleză Hardback
Leading professionals push the boundaries of Jewish knowledge, using midrash to help us see beyond the physical aspects of healing, addressing seemingly intractable social and personal issues and the spiritual shortfalls of our current healing environment.
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ISBN-13: 9781683361961
ISBN-10: 1683361962
Pagini: 352
Greutate: 0.63 kg

Cuprins

PrefaceMichele F. Prince, LCSW, MAJCSAcknowledgments Introduction

1 METAPHORS AND SIDE EFFECTS L'Mashal: Metaphor and Meaning in IllnessRabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub, LCSWFrom Heaven to Hypochondria: Metaphors of Jewish HealingStuart Schoffman, MPhil

2 THE NARROW PLACE FROM WHICH HEALING COMES, AND THE EXPANSIVE EDGE OF THE CONTINENT Surviving the Narrow Places: Judah and Joseph and the Journey to WholenessRabbi Norman J. Cohen, PhDWidening the BoundariesRabbi Eric Weiss

3 LYRIC AND COMMUNITY The Midrashic Impulse in Poems, Our Dialogue with Ecclesiastes, and Other Lyrical InterpretationsRabbi William Cutter, PhD"Psalms, Songs & Stories": Midrash and Music at the Jewish Home of San FranciscoRabbi Sheldon Marder

4 GOD IN THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE: SOME MIDRASHIC ELABORATIONS Talking to Physicians about Talking about God: A Midrashic InvitationRabbi William Cutter, PhDA Physician's Response to the Midrashic InvitationRonald M. Andiman, MD

5 CONTEXTS OF SUFFERING, CONTEXTS OF HOPE Neither Suffering nor Its Rewards: A Story about Intimacy and Dealing with Suffering and with DeathRuhama Weiss, PhDThe Experience of Suffering: A Response to Ruhama WeissRabbi Aryeh Cohen, PhD

6 MIDRASHIC RENDERINGS OF AGE AND OBLIGATION After the Life Cycle: The Moral Challenges of Later LifeThomas R. Cole, PhDThe Journey of Later Life: Moses as Our GuideRabbi Dayle A. Friedman, MSW, MAJCS, BCC

7 NARRATIVE AND LOSS Words in the Dark: A Personal JourneyEitan Fishbane, PhDReflections on the DarkLinda Raphael, PhD

8 THE DILEMMAS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY; THE HEALING RESPONSE OF MIDRASH The Danger of Cure, the Value of Healing: Toward a Midrashic Way of BeingPhilip Cushman, PhDMidrashic Thinking: An Appreciation and a CautionRabbi Lewis M. Barth, PhD

9 THE NARRATIVE TURN IN JEWISH BIOETHICS Aggadah and Midrash: A New Direction for Bioethics?Rabbi Leonard A. Sharzer, MDJewish Bioethics: Between Interpretation and CriticismJonathan Cohen, PhD

10 WHAT TAKES PLACE AND WHAT CAN BE CHANGED A Midrash on the Mi Sheberakh: A Prayer for PersistingRabbi Julie Pelc AdlerThe Human Body and the Body PoliticRabbi Richard Address, DMin

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Notă biografică

Rabbi William Cutter, PhD, is author of Midrash and Medicine: Healing Body and Soul in the Jewish Interpretive Tradition, and is editor of Healing and the Jewish Imagination: Spiritual Perspectives on Judaism and Health. He has published widely on health and healing. He is former director of the Kalsman Institute on Judaism and professor of modern Hebrew literature and the Steinberg Professor of Human Relations at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.