eBook - ePub
Midrash & Medicine
Healing Body and Soul in the Jewish Interpretive Tradition
- 352 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
About this book
Midrash provides a revolutionary guide through the most difficult passages of our life stories.
This groundbreaking volume examines the spiritual shortfalls of our current healing environment and explores how midrash can help you see beyond the physical aspects of healing to tune in to your spiritual source.
Pushing the boundaries of Jewish knowledge, physicians, rabbis, social workers, psychologists and philosophers investigate the role of midrashic thinking in addressing seemingly intractable social and personal issues. Topics discussed include:
- How metaphors and parables can aid healing
- How Jewish tradition can inform and enrich health, hospice and nursing-home care
- New ways of reading Jewish texts in the discussion of medical ethics
- The role of community in addressing aging, loss and suffering.
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Yes, you can access Midrash & Medicine by William Cutter in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Jewish Theology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 METAPHORS AND SIDE EFFECTS
- 2 THE NARROW PLACE FROM WHICH HEALING COMES, AND THE EXPANSIVE EDGE OF THE CONTINENT
- 3 LYRIC AND COMMUNITY
- 4 GOD IN THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE: SOME MIDRASHIC ELABORATIONS
- 5 CONTEXTS OF SUFFERING, CONTEXTS OF HOPE
- 6 MIDRASHIC RENDERINGS OF AGE AND OBLIGATION
- 7 NARRATIVE AND LOSS
- 8 THE DILEMMAS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY; THE HEALING RESPONSE OF MIDRASH
- 9 THE NARRATIVE TURN IN JEWISH BIOETHICS
- 10 WHAT TAKES PLACE AND WHAT CAN BE CHANGED
- Notes
- Credits
- About Jewish Lights
- Copyright