Research Catalog

Title

Jewish bioethics / edited by Fred Rosner & J. David Bleich ; with essays by Menachem M. Brayer ... [et al.].

Publication

New York : Hebrew Pub. Co., c1979.

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Additional Authors

• Bleich, J. David.
• Brayer, Menachem M.
• Rosner, Fred.

Description

xix, 424 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Ethics, Medical
• Jewish ethics
• Judaism
• Medical ethics
• Medicine > Judaism
• Religion and Medicine

Genre/Form

Essay

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : A priori component of bioethics / J. David Bleich -- The practice of medicine -- The obligation to heal in the Judiac tradition : a comparative analysis / J. David Bleich -- The physician and the patient in Jewish law / Fred Rosner -- Sexuality and procreation -- Be fruitful and multply / David S. Shapiro -- Test-tube babies / J. David Bleich -- Contraception in Jewish law / Fred Rosner -- Population control -- the Jewish view / Moses D. Tendler -- Artificial insemination in Jewish law / Fred Rosner -- Jewish views on abortion / Immanuel Jakobovits -- Abortion in Halakhic literature / J. David Bleich -- Tay-Sachs disease : to screen or not to screen / Fred Rosner -- Transsexual surgery / J. David Bleich -- Judaism and the modern attitude to homosexuality / Norman Lamm -- Mental health and drugs -- Psychiatry, psychotherapy and Halakhah / Moshe HaLevi Spero -- Drugs : a Jewish view / Menachem M. Brayer -- Death and dying -- The Jewish attitude toward euthanasia / Fred Rosner -- The Quinlan case : a Jewish perspective : Establishing criteria of death / J. David Bleich -- The Halakhic definition of death / Aaron Soloveichik -- Neurological death and time of death statutes / J. David Bleich -- Suicide in Jewish law ; Autopsy in Jewish law and the Israeli autopsy controversy / Fred Rosner -- Organ transplantation -- What is the Halakhah for organ transplants? / Nachum L. Rabinovich -- Organ transplantation in Jewish law / Fred Rosner -- Human experimentation -- Medical experimentation on humans in Jewish law / Immanuel Jakobovits -- Experimentation on human subjects / J. David Bleich -- Judaism and human experimentation / Fred Rosner -- Genetic engineering -- Judaism and gene design / Azriel Rosenfeld -- Genetic engineering and Judaism / Fred Rosner.

ISBN

• 0884829359 (pbk.) :
• 0884829340 :

LCCN

^^^79023330^//r86

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library