Talk:Jewish medicine

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A review of this article, as it stands The middle ages section of the Jewish Medicine page is rather threadbare. It does go into detail with one source, describing a book of remedies by Asaph the Jew, apparently the first Jewish medical writer of the middle ages who operated between the 3rd and 7th century. Aside from some detail on this text, the article briefly mentions the advances to gynecological medicine made “during this time” with no further specifics. It also briefly describes the commonality of Jewish practitioners in some regions, again with no further details, and makes note of the works translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Jewish practitioners, with a similar scarcity of detail. I_Victor_B (talk) 14:15, 16 October 2015 (UTC)I_Victor_B[reply]

The talk page itself is empty of any discussions or comments. The Jewish Medicine is linked to three other Wikipedia projects, but neither the suggested additions for the Jewish history project and the medicine project include anything about medieval Jewish midwives. I_Victor_B, umdemilie

We're looking to use this page as a jumping off point to work on a new project that deals more with Jewish medicine in the Middle Ages - specifically Jewish midwives. We think that this deserves its own page because it's not just an expansion of the Middle Ages section on this page (which we also intend to expand). Our two main sources right now - one is a book on women in medical care in the Middle Ages, and the other is a peer-reviewed article on relationships between European women of different religions in the Middle Ages. We think that these, and other sources, provide enough material separate from the information on this page that warrants its own project. One of the most interesting primary sources (that doesn't make it on to this page) for Jewish midwives is court documents that chronicle trials in which Jewish women were prosecuted for different medicinal failures and/or witchcraft. Lioramiller (talk) 20:03, 16 October 2015 (UTC)Lioramiller[reply]

Major edit. We added a significant portion to the Middle Ages section of the article. We feel this gives a better representation of Jewish medicine in the Middle Ages, specifically in relation to women in medicine. We felt that we didn't have enough sources to construct a new page in the end, so we added to this one. Lioramiller (talk) 22:07, 4 November 2015 (UTC)Lioramiller[reply]

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