Hi To address Stephen's concern about this and psychology, I do talk about marriage between cousins in the health section of my culture and psychology class. More common in some parts of the world, than others, including the Middle East. And there are psychological reasons for the practice (especially if one views economics as a branch of psychology). Historically was there any tendency towards marriage between cousins in Jewish culture? This increases the risk (somewhat) of recessive disorders like hemophilia and might increase cultural (religious?) sensitivity to such conditions.
Take care Jim Jim Clark Professor & Chair of Psychology 204-786-9757 4L41A -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 6:08 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Hemophilia in the Talmud Hemophilia in the Talmud and Rabbinic Writings FRED ROSNER, M.D. Ann Intern Med. 1969;70(4):833-837. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-70-4-833 SUMMARY: A familial bleeding disorder, probably hemophilia, is described in the Talmud. The decree of Rabbi Judah that the sibling of two brothers who died of bleeding after circumcision may not be circumcised is codified by Jewish sages of the last 10 centuries. Such rulings are found in the works of Alfasi (eleventh century); Maimonides (twelfth century); Jacob ben Asher and Asher ben Yechiel (fourteenth century); Karo and Isserles (sixteenth century); Azulay, Reischer, and Landau (eighteenth century); and Epstein (nineteenth century), among others. Modern Rabbinic authority extends this ruling to any child, even the firstborn, in whom a diagnosis of hemophilia can be established by coagulation studies. This ruling was stated only in regard to siblings or maternal cousins as only the direct maternal transmission of the disease was recognized. Omitted from all the Jewish sources is a consideration of the child whose maternal uncles died of bleeding after circumcision. ------------------------ Say, I thought this list was supposed to be about psychology :-) Stephen -------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca --------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9&n=T&l=tips&o=27576 or send a blank email to leave-27576-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=27579 or send a blank email to leave-27579-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
