Embodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two
different cultures—Japan and Israel—both of which medicalize pregnancy. Tsipy Ivry …

The Middle East plays a major role in the history of genetic science. Early in the twentieth
century, technological breakthroughs in human genetics coincided with the birth of modern …

In the 1980s and 1990s, a group of historians and sociologists revolutionized the study of
Israeli history. These scholars, often called collectively the Post-Zionists, sought to …

By analyzing its position within the struggles for recognition and reception of different
national and ethnic cultural groups, this book offers a bold new picture of Israeli literature …

This new book by historian David Ohana analyzes Zionism and the Israeli state as a
theological ideology. The book pursues this provocative end by showing the dialectical …

Neonatal male circumcision is closely tied to Jewish identity and is socially normative in
Israel. Soon after the mass arrival of secular, uncircumcised Jewish immigrants from the …

Dedicated to the memory of those Jewish and non-Jewish eugenicists who were defamed
and persecuted in the Western world, some of whom had earlier been driven into exile from …

The BiDil affair brought once again to the fore questions of race and medicine. As discussed
in other essays in this collection, the emergence of BiDil as the first medication approved …

From the earliest nineteenth‐century manifestos through the big, technology‐rich
development projects of Israel's recent history, science and technology have loomed large in …

ABSTRACT Taking Israel's National Health Insurance Law as a point of entry, in this article I
probe how notions of equality and citizenship, secularism, and religion become entangled in …