Jewish Life in Modern Times

Modern Times

Diabetes : Modern Times.

*Endocrinology Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, S. Orsola-Malpighi General Hospital, Bologna, Italy, 40138 I 1964 Dorothy Crowfort Hodgkin (19101944) (Figure 1) won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin molecular structure by X-ray crystallography. In 1977 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (born in 1921) (Figure 2) was awarded with Nobel Prize for the development of radioimmunoassay of polypep...

End-of-life: Jewish perspectives.

Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe

Was the Christian encounter with Jewish society in medieval Europe defined by the emergence of a “persecuting mentality,” in which Jews and other subalterns were subjected to an aggressive policy of social and political exclusion, as framed by Robert Moore in his seminal book, The Formation of a Persecuting Society? 1 Should the Jewish experience in medieval Christian Europe be viewed as a “lac...

Jewish thought and scientific discovery in early modern Europe.

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