Jewish bioethics /
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| Imprint: | New York : Hebrew Pub. Co., c1979. |
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| Description: | xix, 424 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/871108 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Preface to the Augmented Edition
- Introduction: The A Priori Component of Bioethics
- The Practice of Medicine
- 1.. The Obligation to Heal in the Judaic Tradition: A Comparative Analysis
- 2.. The Physician and the Patient in Jewish Law
- 3. Pigeons as a Remedy (Segulah) for Jaundice
- Sexuality and Procreation
- 4.. Be Fruitful and Multiply
- 5.. Sex Preselection
- 6.. Test-Tube Babies
- 7.. Contraception in Jewish Law
- 8.. Population Control--the Jewish View
- 9.. Artificial Insemination in Jewish Law
- 10.. Jewish Views on Abortion
- 11.. Abortion in Halakhic Literature
- 12.. Tay-Sachs Disease: To Screen Or Not To Screen
- 13.. Transsexual Surgery
- 14.. Judaism and the Modern Attitude to Homosexuality
- Mental Health and Drugs
- 15.. Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Halakhah: A Torah Perspective on the Philosophy of Behavior Change
- 16.. Drugs: A Jewish View
- Death and Dying
- 17.. The Jewish Attitude Toward Euthanasia
- 18.. The Quinlan Case: A Jewish Perspective
- 19.. Establishing Criteria of Death
- 20.. The Halakhic Definition of Death
- 21.. Neurological Criteria of Death and Time of Death Statutes
- 22.. Research and/or Training on the Newly Dead: The Jewish Perspective
- 23.. Suicide in Jewish Law
- 24.. Autopsy in Jewish Law and the Israeli Autopsy Controversy
- Organ Transplantation
- 25.. What is the Halakhah for Organ Transplants?
- 26.. Organ Transplantation in Jewish Law
- Human Experimentation
- 27.. Medical Experimentation on Humans in Jewish Law
- 28.. Experimentation on Human Subjects
- 29.. Judaism and Human Experimentation
- Genetic Engineering
- 30.. Judaism and Gene Design
- 31.. Genetic Engineering and Judaism
- Biographical Notes
