Alan Elbaum
Biographic Data
| ID | 5987651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Elbaum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Elbaum |
| SIGNATURE | ELBAUM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Genmab (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Religious Identifications in Late Antique Papyri
The Fire in My Heart and the Pain in My Eyes”
Histories of medicine and illness in the medieval Near East have typically been written on the basis of literary sources, neglecting the rich panoply of documentary sources—letters, legal deeds, business accounts, and the like. This article, an analysis of a new corpus of approximately six hundred “illness letters” from the Cairo Geniza dating to the period 969–1517 CE, centers subjective representations of psychic and bodily illness and is among…
How to Write a Desperate Letter
This article presents editions and a comparative structural analysis of six Cairo Geniza letters in Judaeo-Arabic which were written by Manṣūr b. Sālim, a father in early thirteenth-century Alexandria desperate to bring home his runaway son Abū l-Naǧm. Three of Manṣūr’s letters are addressed to communal leaders in Fustat and three to the runaway son himself. The letters to communal leaders are shown to be more regimented, with underlying patterns…
Black Lives in a Pandemic
In recent months, Covid‐19 has devastated African American communities across the nation, and a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd. The agents of death may be novel, but the phenomena of long‐standing epidemics of premature black death and of police violence are not. This essay argues that racial health and health care disparities, rooted as they are in systemic injustice, ought to carry far more weight in clinical ethics than they …
Earning Patient Trust
Laura Specker Sullivan's article “Trust, Risk, and Race in American Medicine” is a philosophically grounded and highly practical call for medical professionals to take on the task of comprehending the sources of patients’ mistrust. This is not only a clinical competence but also a moral obligation, in particular, when mistrust is warranted—as with African American patients who rely on medical institutions that have breached and continue to breach…
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Black Lives in a Pandemic
In recent months, Covid‐19 has devastated African American communities across the nation, and a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd. The agents of death may be novel, but the phenomena of long‐standing epidemics of premature black death and of police violence are not. This essay argues that racial health and health care disparities, rooted as they are in systemic injustice, ought to carry far more weight in clinical ethics than they …
Earning Patient Trust
Laura Specker Sullivan's article “Trust, Risk, and Race in American Medicine” is a philosophically grounded and highly practical call for medical professionals to take on the task of comprehending the sources of patients’ mistrust. This is not only a clinical competence but also a moral obligation, in particular, when mistrust is warranted—as with African American patients who rely on medical institutions that have breached and continue to breach…
How to Write a Desperate Letter
This article presents editions and a comparative structural analysis of six Cairo Geniza letters in Judaeo-Arabic which were written by Manṣūr b. Sālim, a father in early thirteenth-century Alexandria desperate to bring home his runaway son Abū l-Naǧm. Three of Manṣūr’s letters are addressed to communal leaders in Fustat and three to the runaway son himself. The letters to communal leaders are shown to be more regimented, with underlying patterns…
The Fire in My Heart and the Pain in My Eyes”
Histories of medicine and illness in the medieval Near East have typically been written on the basis of literary sources, neglecting the rich panoply of documentary sources—letters, legal deeds, business accounts, and the like. This article, an analysis of a new corpus of approximately six hundred “illness letters” from the Cairo Geniza dating to the period 969–1517 CE, centers subjective representations of psychic and bodily illness and is among…
Religious Identifications in Late Antique Papyri
History (3 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Genizah (2 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works)