Judaism

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Clash of definitions: controversies about conscience in medicine. 
  • Jewish law and cosmetic surgery. 
  • Jewish physicians' beliefs and practices regarding religion/spirituality in the clinical encounter. 
  • Social versus individual motivation: implications for normative definitions of religious orientation. 
  • The association of physicians' religious characteristics with their attitudes and self-reported behaviors regarding religion and spirituality in the clinical encounter. 
  • The perils of Passover: small bowel obstruction from a matzah bezoar. 
  • Y chromosomes traveling south: the cohen modal haplotype and the origins of the Lemba--the "Black Jews of Southern Africa".