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Jews and mental illness: Medical metaphors, anti-semitism, and the Jewish response

✍ Scribed by Sander L. Gilman

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1984
Tongue
English
Weight
753 KB
Volume
20
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5061

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✦ Synopsis

The idea that Jews were prone to a specific set of illnesses is as old as the Middle Ages. In the nineteenth century the view that the Jew was especially prone to developing mental illnesses became an accepted part of medical discourse. Jewish doctors, too, believed this and had to evolve a means of dealing with their own potential madness.

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