Rabbi Israel Schapira (1891-1963)

The paediatrician and the rabbi.

OBJECTIVES During recent decades, rabbis in Israel have been playing an increasing role in the consultation of patients or their families on medical issues. The study was performed to determine the attitude of physicians to rabbinical consultation by parents of sick children for purposes of basic medical decision making. DESIGN AND SETTING A questionnaire was prepared which contained question...

To my parents , Daniel and Charlotte Schapira

The Internet is an arena of complex interplay between computational and economic factors – a computational platform through which various self-interested, often competing, economic entities interact. The actual transition of traffic in the Internet is achieved via the operation of few fundamental Internet Protocols (TCP, IP, BGP). These are probably the most widely-deployed distributed algorith...

Moses Maimonides: rabbi or medicine.

The great medieval Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides was also a practicing physician who contributed a number of important works to medical literature. Modern students of these treatises have made extravagant claims about Maimonides' scientific outlook and have attributed to him important discoveries and innovations. Viewed in its historical and religious content, Maimonides' medical work app...

Otto Mangold (1891-1962)

Otto Mangold [5] was an early-twentieth-century embryologist who specialized in the development of amphibian embryos. A major emphasis of his research was refining the concept of the organizer [6], now referred to as embryonic induction [7]. He was born on 4 November 1891 in Auenstein, Germany, and came from what Viktor Hamburger [8], a colleague and personal acquaintance, described as ?peasant...

Maimonides (1138-1204): rabbi, physician and philosopher.