Quality of Life in Jewish Bioethics

Quality of Life in Jewish Bioethics
Author: Noʻam Zohar
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780739114469

Scholars of ethics, law, religion, and other disciplines gathered in New York City in the spring of 2002, for the first of a planned series of conferences on Jewish bioethics. The theme was the quality of life and its interpretation in light of fundamental Jewish values. From that conference, these 10 essays discuss the quality versus the sanctity

Duty and Healing

Duty and Healing
Author: Benjamin Freedman
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1999
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780415921794

Duty and Healing positions ethical issues commonly encountered in clinical situations within Jewish law. It looks at the role of the family, the question of informed consent and the responsibilities of caretakers.

Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics

Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics
Author: Fred Rosner
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
Total Pages: 1290
Release: 2003
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781583305928

Ethical issues in modern medicine are of great concern and interest to all physicians and health-care providers throughout the world, as well as to the public at large. Jewish scholars and ethicists have discussed medical ethics throughout Jewish history.

Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust

Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust
Author: Michael A. Grodin, M.D.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1782384189

Faced with infectious diseases, starvation, lack of medicines, lack of clean water, and safe sewage, Jewish physicians practiced medicine under severe conditions in the ghettos and concentration camps of the Holocaust. Despite the odds against them, physicians managed to supply public health education, enforce hygiene protocols, inspect buildings and latrines, enact quarantine, and perform triage. Many gave their lives to help fellow prisoners. Based on archival materials and featuring memoirs of Holocaust survivors, this volume offers a rich array of both tragic and inspiring studies of the sanctification of life as practiced by Jewish medical professionals. More than simply a medical story, these histories represent the finest exemplification of a humanist moral imperative during a dark hour of recent history.

Jewish Bioethics

Jewish Bioethics
Author: Fred Rosner
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2000
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780881256628

How do you define the precise moment of death? Should "pulling the plug" and mercy killings be allowed by law? Is it necessary to control the birth of "test tube babies"? Should abortions be legal and freely available? What are the social implications of sex-change operations? Should research on cloning and genetic engineering be allowed and encouraged? Should doctors be permitted to perform medical experiments on human subjects?

Jewish and Catholic Bioethics

Jewish and Catholic Bioethics
Author: Edmund D. Pellegrino
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1999-10-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781589013506

Drawing on multiple interconnected scriptural and spiritual sources, the Jewish tradition of ethical reflection is intricate and nuanced. This book presents scholarly Jewish perspectives on suffering, healing, life, and death, and it compares them with contemporary Christian and secular views. The Jewish perspectives presented in this book are mainly those of orthodox scholars, with the responses representing primarily Christian-Catholic points of view. Readers unfamiliar with the Jewish tradition will find here a practical introduction to its major voices, from Spinoza to Jewish religious law. The contributors explore such issues as active and passive euthanasia, abortion, assisted reproduction, genetic screening, and health care delivery. Offering a thoughtful and thought-provoking dialogue between Jewish and Christian scholars, Jewish and Catholic Bioethics is an important contribution to ecumenical understanding in the realm of health care.

Narratives and Jewish Bioethics

Narratives and Jewish Bioethics
Author: J. Crane
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2013-03-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1137021098

Narratives and Jewish Bioethics searches for answers to the critical question of what roles ancient narratives play in creating modern norms by Jewish bioethicists utilizing the Jewish textual tradition.

Three Faiths, One God

Three Faiths, One God
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780391041806

In systematic descriptions, three of today's leading scholars detail the classical theologies of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and the authoritative texts of those theologies. They compare and contrast the three faiths, each of which has a set of doctrines, practices, and beliefs that addresses common issues.

Jewish Bioethics

Jewish Bioethics
Author: Yechiel Michael Barilan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2014
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107024668

Presents the discourse in Jewish law and rabbinic literature on bioethical issues, highlighting practical problems in their socio-historical contexts.

The Sanctity-of-life Doctrine in Medicine

The Sanctity-of-life Doctrine in Medicine
Author: Helga Kuhse
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1987
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Examining and refuting the "sanctity-of-life" view in medical decision making, Kuhse argues for a quality-of-life ethic based on the belief that there is a profound difference between merely being alive and life being in the patient's interest.