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This volume presents expanded versions of papers read at a binational symposium convened in Jerusalem in December 1992. Organized within the framework of meetings held worldwide in remembrance of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, this conference focused on aspects of the profession and ethics of medicine. The major topics explored at the symposium were the relationships among physicians of different denominations and between them and the authorities; the image and status of the converso physician; questions of medical licensing and compensation; attitudes regarding suffering, pain and the care of infants; and the influence of medieval Jewish and Moslem religious law concepts underlying the care and treatment of patients. Other papers relate to the early modern period and to current problems of medical ethics, illustrating the impact of historical approaches on the development of the discipline of medical ethics today.

The book presents ten essays focusing on the state of knowledge of some basic issues of nutrition in various periods and the ways of thinking about them, e.g. the digestion of food, the utilization of nutrients and their conversion into body substance, obesity, dietary standards or the need of specific nutrients. In the introduction, Professor Guggenheim endeavors to place each essay in its historical context. As a result, without claiming to present an abridged history of nutrition, the book encompasses a span of 2,400 years, from the Greco-Roman Antiquity until the twentieth century.