judaism and health

The debate that began in the eighteenth century over the emancipation
and integration of the Jews into the modern nation-state was infused
with the language of medicine and science. The historical reconstruction
of “the Jewish Question,” as the debate over Jewish integration
came to be called, tends to focus on the negative representation of Jews
and Judaism.

Links in a Long Chain

In December 1883, James E. Reeves, the Secretary of the State Board of Health of West Virginia, delivered a speech to the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association. The speech was later printed in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the nation’smost prestigious medical journal.