medicine

God, Your Healer Daniel Eisenberg, Community. The Shulhan Arukh states, "the Torah gives permission to the physician to heal; moreover, this is a mitzvah."  But how does that square with the Jewish conception of God as the ultimate healer?

The Rabbi and the Doctor Alan Brill, Book of Doctrines and Opinions. Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits created the field of Jewish medical ethics.  Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant. Their long correspondence provides some surprises.

Dentistry, ca. 200 B.C.E. Sarah K. Yeomans, Biblical Archaeology Review. In a mass grave in the northern Negev desert, a skull was found that contains one of the earliest known dental fillings: a 2.5-millimeter bronze wire inserted into the tooth’s canal.