Fred Rosner

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Fred Rosner (born October 3, 1935 in Berlin ) is an American medical historian and medical ethicist.

Life

Fred Rosner and his brother were saved from the persecution of Jews in Germany to England on a Kindertransport in 1939 . Rosner moved to the USA, studied medicine and was one of the first to graduate from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in New York City, founded in 1955 .

He became a Fellow of the American College of Physicians , worked as a hematologist, and became Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Queens Hospital Center . Rosner specialized in questions of medical ethics and published writings by and about Moses Maimonides .

In 2018, the Queen's Theater Hornchurch in London integrated a video interview with Fred and Edith Rosner into a production about the Kindertransport .

Fonts (selection)

  • Modern medicine and Jewish law . New York: Yeshiva University, 1972
    • Medicine and jewish law . Yashar Books, 2005
  • Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud: selections from classical Jewish sources . New York, NY: KTAV Publ. House, 1977
  • Pioneers in Jewish medical ethics . Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1997
  • with J David Bleich; Menachem M Brayer: Jewish bioethics . Hoboken, NJ: KTAV Pub. House, 2000
  • Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud . Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 2000
  • Biomedical ethics and Jewish law . Hoboken, NJ: KTAV Pub. House, 2001
Maimonides
  • Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) . Annal. Int. Med. 1965, 62: 373-375
  • The Physician's Prayer Attributed to Moses Maimonides . Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 1967, 41: 440-454
  • with Suessmann Muntner : The Medical Aphorisms of Moses Maimonides . New York, 1970
  • The medical aphorisms of Moses Maimonides . New York: Yeshiva Univ. Press, 1971
  • Sex ethics in the writings of Moses Maimonides . New York, NY: Bloch Publ., 1974
  • Maimonides' commentary on the Mishnah, Tractate Sanhedrin , Sepher-Hermon Press, New York 1981 (ed. And transl.)
  • Treatises on Poisons, Hemorrhoids and Co-habitation . Maimonides Research Institute, Israel, 1984
  • Medicine in the Mishmeh Torah of Maimonides . Ktav Publishers, New York, 1984
  • Commentary on the Sphorism of Hippocrates . Maimonides Research Institute, Israel, 1987
  • Moses Maimonides: Three Treatises on Health . Maimonides Research Institute, Israel, 1990
  • Moses Maimonides Glossary of Drug Names . Maimonides Research Institute, Israel, 1992
  • Treatise on asthma . Maimonides Research Institute. Israel, 1994
  • Medical encyclopedia of Moses Maimonides . Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1998
  • The medical legacy of Moses Maimonides . Hoboken, NJ: KTAV Publishing House, 1998

literature

  • Süssmann Munter : In a personal conversation with Fred Rosner . In: Fred Rosner: The Physician's Prayer attributed to Moses Maimonides , in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine 1967, pp. 449f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c editorial note in: The Life of Moses Maimonides, a Prominent Medieval Physician , Einstein Quart. J. Biol. Med. (2002) 19: 125-128
  2. ^ Anthony Rosner: Fred Rosner and Edith Rosner Kindertransport , at vimeo
personal data
SURNAME Rosner, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medical ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin