The Physician vs. the Halakhic Man: Theory and Practice in Maimonides's Attitude towards Treating Gentiles
Ancient Jewish law took a strict approach to medical relationships between Jews and non-Jews. Sages forbade Jews to provide non-Jews with medical services: to treat them, circumcise them, or deliver their babies, in order to refrain from helping pagan-idolatrous society. Such law created particularl...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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[2018]
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Journal for the study of religions and ideologies
Year: 2018, Volume: 17, Issue: 49, Pages: 18-31 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Maimonides, Moses 1135-1204
/ Halacha
/ Healing
/ Non-Jew
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RelBib Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations BH Judaism NCH Medical ethics |
Further subjects: | B
Halakha
B Maimonides B Medieval Medicine B Mishneh Torah B Ethnic-medicine B Medical Jewish prohibition B Judaism B idolaters B Medical Treatment B treating Muslims |
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