Abi Gezunt - Jacob Jay Lindenthal

Abi Gezunt

Health and the American Jewish Dream (includes The Lindex Study: An Ethnic Database)
Buch | Hardcover
220 Seiten
2017
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-61811-536-2 (ISBN)
237,30 inkl. MwSt
Offers of a series of investigations into the cultural and behavioural patterns of east European immigrant Jews known to promote health and prevent disease. Drawing on data pointing to health as an economic commodity, leading to economic strength and social development, the author suggests that the high value accorded to health played a role in the relative economic prosperity of American Jews.
This book consists of a series of investigations into the cultural and behavioral patterns of east European immigrant Jews known to promote health and prevent disease beginning in the late 19th and into the 20th centuries. Drawing on data pointing to health as an economic commodity, leading to economic strength and social development, the author suggests that the high value accorded to health played a role in the relative economic prosperity of American Jews. The book explores the implications of good health as a source of human capital worthy of investment and its significance for recent immigrants.

Jacob Jay Lindenthal, Professor, Department of Psychiatry at Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School and creator of its MiniMed program, has long been interested in the relationship between life events and social and mental outcomes as well as ethnicity and health. He was awarded the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award in 1994 and named Faculty Member of the Year in 2005.

ForewordPreface

Acknowledgements



Introduction

Chapter 1. Halacha—The Foundation of Jewish Law and Life

Chapter 2. Education and Literacy: the Path to Good Health



Social Support

Chapter 3. Charity—Das Jüdische Herz

Chapter 4. Family First



Health-Related Behaviors

Chapter 5. Childrearing Practices and Attitudes

Chapter 6. Alcoholism Among the Jews



Human Capital

Chapter 7. Housing and Jobs in the New World—Health Against All Odds



Implications

Chapter 8. Socioeconomic Status and Health

Chapter 9. Health, Culture, and Wealth



Appendix I

Infant Mortality

Maternal Mortality

Maternal Age

Birth Intervals

Breastfeeding and Infant Mortality

Housing Congestion

Maternal Employment During Pregnancy



Appendix II

Sources Corroborating Comparatively Low Rates of Tuberculosis Among Jews in Eastern Europe

Sources Corroborating Comparatively Low Rates of Infection Among Jews

Sources Corroborating Comparatively Low Rates of Influenza Among Jews

Sources Corroborating Comparatively Low Rates of Typhoid Fever Among Jews

Sources Corroborating Comparatively Low Rates of Mortality Associated with Whooping Cough, Scarlet Fever, and Measles Among Jews

Sources Corroborating Comparatively Low Rates of Syphilis Among Jews

Sources Corroborating Alcohol Consumption Among Jews



Appendix III

Additional Reading

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Jewish Identities in Post-Modern Society
Verlagsort Brighton
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 825 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Medizin / Pharmazie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-61811-536-7 / 1618115367
ISBN-13 978-1-61811-536-2 / 9781618115362
Zustand Neuware
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