To Your Health!


As Americans waited on bated breath to hear the Supreme Court's ruling on President Obama's health care overhaul the morning of June 28, 2012, we compiled a list of books that offers a wide array of Jewish and/or literary perspectives on health, illness, and social responsibility.


Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Social Justice
 

Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients
 

Most of Me: Surviving My Medical Meltdown


The Hadassah Jewish Family Book of Health and Wellness
 

Eating Animals
 

Deadly: How Do You Catch an Invisible Killer?


There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice Through Jewish Law and Tradition
 

You Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me About Living, Dying, Loving, Fighting and Swearing in Yiddish
 

The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America


The Office of Desire
 

This is a Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes
 

Maimonides


Cadaverland: Inventing a Pathology of Catastrophe for Holocaust Survival
 

Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Body
 

God in Your Body: Kabbalah, Mindfulness and Embodied Spiritual Practice


Enlitened Kosher Cooking
 

Baby Barbells: The Dad’s Guide To Fitness and Fathering
 

Feeding Eden: The Trials and Triumphs of a Food Allergy Family


A Physician Under the Nazis: Memoirs of Henry Glenwick
 

Jewish Ethics and the Care of End-of-Life Patients: A Collection of Rabbinical, Bioethical, Philosophical, and Juristic Opinions
 

Tradition in the Public Square: A David Novak Reade


Bubbe Meises: Jewish Myths, Jewish Realities
 

Good Eggs: A Memoir
 

Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids


Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths
 

Sabrina: The Girl With a Hole in Her Heart
 

The Adventures of Cancer Bitch


The Midwife of Venice
 

We Need to Talk
 

Vagina: A New Biography


Feeding Mrs. Moskowitz and the Caregiver
 

Keep Fighting, Stop Struggling: The Miles Levin Story
 

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