Life and Death Responsibilities in Jewish Biomedical Ethics
Title | Life and Death Responsibilities in Jewish Biomedical Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron L. Mackler |
Publisher | JTS Press |
Total Pages | 554 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
Papers on biomedical ethics that integrate the resources of millenia with the most recent developments in medicine and ethical thought.
Matters of Life and Death
Title | Matters of Life and Death PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Jewish Publication Society |
Total Pages | 484 |
Release | |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780827610224 |
This book discusses modern medical ethical dilemas from a specifically conservative Jewish point of view. The author includes issues such as artifical insemination, genetic engineering, cloning, surrogate motherhood, and birth control, as well as living wills, hospice care, euthanasia, organ donation, and autopsy.
Jewish Ethics and the Care of End-of-life Patients
Title | Jewish Ethics and the Care of End-of-life Patients PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Joel Hurwitz |
Publisher | KTAV Publishing House, Inc. |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780881259216 |
Determined by laws, still allows for many different--and sometimes mutually contradictory--viewpoints. For professionals, religious leaders, and the general public. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Introduction to Jewish and Catholic Bioethics
Title | Introduction to Jewish and Catholic Bioethics PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron L. Mackler |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 265 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780878401468 |
Leavened with compassion, common sense, and a readable style, this introduction to complicated bioethical issues from both Jewish and Catholic perspectives is as informative as it is undaunting. Aaron Mackler takes the reader through methodology in Roman Catholic moral theology and compares and contrasts it with methodology as it is practiced in Jewish ethics. He then skillfully wends his way through many topics foremost on the contemporary ethical agenda for both Jewish and Catholic ethicists: euthanasia and assisted suicide, end-of-life decisions, abortion, in vitro fertilization, and the ever-growing problem of justice regarding access to health care and medical resources. A concluding chapter summarizes general tendencies in the comparison of the two traditions, and addresses the significance of convergence and divergence between these traditions for moral thinkers within each faith community, and generally in western democracies such as the United States. As Mackler overviews these issues, he points out the divergences and the commonalities between the two traditions -- clarifying each position and outlining the structure of thinking that supports them. At the heart of both Catholic and Jewish perspectives on bioethics is a life-affirming core, and while there may be differences in the "why" of those ethical divergences, and in the "how" each arrived at varying -- or the same -- conclusions, both traditions, in the words of James McCartney as quoted in the introduction, "are guided by the principle that life is precious; that we are bidden to preserve and guard our health; that we are bidden to intervene in nature to raise the human estate; and that our lives are not our own, but are part of the legacy bequeathed to us by the Creator." This book has been carefully crafted in that spirit.
Quality of Life in Jewish Bioethics
Title | Quality of Life in Jewish Bioethics PDF eBook |
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
Jewish Bioethics
Title | Jewish Bioethics PDF eBook |
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.
Jewish Bioethics
Title | Jewish Bioethics PDF eBook |
Author | Yechiel Michael Barilan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 297 |
Release | 2013-12-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1107512182 |
This book presents the discourse in Jewish law and rabbinic literature on bioethical issues, highlighting practical problems in their socio-historical contexts. Yechiel Michael Barilan discusses end-of-life care, abortion, infertility treatments, the brain death debate, and the organ market. Barilan also presents the theology and spirituality of Jewish medical law, the communal responsibility for healthcare, and the charitable sick-care societies that flourished in the Jewish communities until the beginning of the twentieth century.