Jewish history in nursing text
- From: Eliyahu <lrooff@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:52:41 +0000 (UTC)
My wife just got the textbooks for this quarter in nursing school, and
one of them has a chapter about the historical perspectives of nursing
and medicine. By page 26, we read,
"By 1900 B.C. [sic], the Hebrews had formed a nation along the
Mediterranean and adopted many of the health practices of their
neighbors. They integrated elements of Egyptian sanitary laws to form
the Mosaic Code that, as in many other cultures, mixed religion and
medicine. Caring for widows, orphans, and other strangers in need was
part of daily life. Hebrews had good knowledge of anatomy and
physiology, especially the circulatory systems. Physician-priests
routinely performed operations such as cesarean sections (named later
by the Romans), amputation, and circumcisions. They also enforced
rules of purification, performed sacrifices, and conducted rituals
related to food preparation."
My wife adds that next week, they'll be studying cultural
sensitivity...
In any case, I can't imagine being able to tuck much more erroneous
information into a single short paragraph than the writer did here...
Eliyahu
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