Medicine
The British elite will use the police to make sure a working-class child dies of starvation.
What’s wrong with playing God?
Life with dignity vs. death with dignity.
The killing of psychiatric patients is becoming normal.
Was his life worth living?
A ḥaredi rabbi endorses quackery.
A soft boycott.
A form of folk medicine now in the news thanks to Olympic athletes like Michael Phelps, cupping has a long history in Judaism.
A Jewish surgeon’s Civil War manual.
Doctors, writes Aaron Rothstein, have a penchant for dark humor, cracking jokes in the face of death, suffering, and disease. Rothstein turns to the history. . .
Hamas launches rockets from hospitals. Israeli hospitals treat the family of Gaza’s ruler. The Lancet, true to form, publishes an attack on Israel.
A huge Crusader hospital, discovered by Israeli archeologists in Jerusalem’s Old City, not only cared for Christian pilgrims but also provided kosher food for Jewish patients.