A01=Jacob Jay Lindenthal
Author_Jacob Jay Lindenthal
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Product details
- ISBN 9781618115362
- Weight: 825g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2017
- Publisher: Academic Studies Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book consists of a series of investigations into the cultural and behavioral patterns of east European immigrant Jews known to promote health and prevent disease beginning in the late 19th and into the 20th centuries. Drawing on data pointing to health as an economic commodity, leading to economic strength and social development, the author suggests that the high value accorded to health played a role in the relative economic prosperity of American Jews. The book explores the implications of good health as a source of human capital worthy of investment and its significance for recent immigrants.
Jacob Jay Lindenthal, Professor, Department of Psychiatry at Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School and creator of its MiniMed program, has long been interested in the relationship between life events and social and mental outcomes as well as ethnicity and health. He was awarded the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award in 1994 and named Faculty Member of the Year in 2005.
