The evolution of medical practice / Benjamin Moses / Magnes

The evolution of medical practice / Benjamin Moses / Magnes

In the second half of the twentieth century, the medical community adopted the scientific method as a basis for practice. It seemed that after thousands of years the way was paved for a regulated process: from the laboratory through the clinical trial to the patient's bed. But it soon became clear that the road is neither straight nor continuous.

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Did Zionism seek to establish a nation state? / Dimitri Shumsky / Magnes

Did Zionism seek to establish a nation state? / Dimitri Shumsky / Magnes

In his new book on the history of the Zionist political imagination from the beginning of the idea of ​​modern Zionism to the establishment of the State of Israel, Dimitri Shomsky challenges a deterministic view by examining unknown writings by the fathers of Zionism and by re-examining the known sources, which were interpreted in a tendentious and ahistorical way in the classical literature on Zionism

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Aphids create aphids on bats in Israel / Moshe Inbar / Magnes

Aphids create aphids on bats in Israel / Moshe Inbar / Magnes

What is the nature of aphids, those "strange growths" seen on various plants? Insects that cause the plant to produce sap are actually the most intimate way in which animals feed on plants. In scientific language but equal to everyone's soul, this book reveals to those interested and lovers of nature and the country one of the most impressive and prominent groups among the creators of objects: the aphids.

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