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 nic Medical Culture in Late Antiquity"
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DESCRIPTION:As scholars from the field of disability studies have argued\, 
 the category of “disability\,” like gender\, presents a fundamental ca
 tegory of analysis for historians to examine power relations and identity 
 formation. In this context\, this talk draws on theoretical frameworks fro
 m disability studies to examine the representation of leprosy and disablin
 g skin diseases in late antique rabbinic literature. It demonstrates how f
 or the rabbis\, the disabled body\, or the “deviant other” body\, func
 tioned as a marker for the boundaries of humanness\, inventing difference 
 and drawing rabbinic communal boundaries around conceptions of ideal and t
 ransgressive bodies. The rabbinic attitudes towards individuals suffering 
 with leprosy become tied to a rabbinic concern with communal identity and 
 to debates regarding the communal responsibility to provide medical care.\
 n\n \n\nShulamit Shinnar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Re
 ligion at Florida State University. She specializes in ancient Jewish hist
 ory with a focus on the production of rabbinic literature in Roman Palesti
 ne and Sassanian Babylonian. Her study of Jewish culture and textual tradi
 tions is informed by methodological questions from the history of science 
 and medicine\, medical anthropology\, post-colonial theory\, the study of 
 gender and sexuality\, and disability studies. Currently\, she is working 
 on a monograph entitled "'The Best of Doctors Go to Hell': Rabbinic Medica
 l Culture in Late Antiquity" that examines Jewish medical culture in Late 
 Antiquity\, focusing on medicine as a site for social encounter and cultur
 al exchange between different ethnic\, religious\, and gender identities.
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SUMMARY:Shulamit Shinnar\, "Illness\, Disability\, and IDentity: Rabbinic M
 edical Culture in Late Antiquity"
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 ility-and-identity-rabbinic-medical-culture-in-late-antiquity
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