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As a legal scholar and a bioethicist, I was curious to know more about the history of… medicine. My interest in legal history and the history of the legal profession developed somewhat coincidentally (while writing a second PhD thesis on the history of medicine), after discovering obscure archival information that shed light on the legal struggle of the first woman lawyer in Mandatory Palestine, which led to a series of studies (individually or collaboratively) on the history of the legal profession. This field merged almost seamlessly with the subjects I teach – professional ethics and the history of (Israeli) legal system. Accordingly, the path to comprehensive research, which includes different research methods, and involves both the (history of the) legal and medical professions, of law & medicine, and more recently, studies of Kavod (Honor) - was a short one. One file led to the other; one archive led to another; one research led to the other – and each of them relates to each other. Digging in the archives – touching history and legal historical materials - is sort of a “time tunnel”, it almost enables a direct connection with the legal professionals, which, in return, allows a better understanding of the past, of processes, as well as current legal phenomena.
Eyal Katvan, legal historian, bioethicist, historian of medicine, jurist, Rehovot/Israel
