Sarna, Jonathan. American Judaism: A History

Natural history of trisomy 13 Jonathan

The poor prognosis of patients with trisomy 13 has long been accepted and has been ascribed to brain and heart malformations. It has been suggested, however, that the long term survival is better than was previously thought and that cardiac surgery may be justified. This population based study reviews the incidence, antenatal diagnosis, spectrum of survival from congenital heart disease, and mo...

Towards Judaism

As China is the only country in the Far East world in which Jews have continually lived for over 1,000 years, "Chinese Judaism" -referring to the religious belief and practices of those Jews who had lived or are now living in China -is unique. Within this long history, a significant distinction must be made. Jews who came before modern times, before 1840, became part of Chinese society almost w...

A history of American neurology

speciality, or with neurologists. They cover a remarkable range of topics, a variety that is directly proportional to the diversity of their scholarly quality and the number of Whiggish comments they contain. Only a few of the papers warrant being mentioned by name, but there are others of considerable merit. Among the latter are the biographies, which deal with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Hors...

Judaism on medicine.

Many religions, I'm tempted to say all religions except Judaism, are death cults. Religions deal typically with the problems of death and are attempts to bypass death, deny death, or distort death. The most obvious example would be the Eygptian religion, since, as we now know, the cult, the pyramids, the priest-craft, and the sacred texts were all designed to assure at least the Pharaoh of immo...

Behavioral and Phenomenological Judaism