Jewish bioethics: rabbinic law and theology in their social and historical contexts

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...

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Auteur principal: Barilan, Yechiel Michael 1966- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Livre
Langue:Anglais
Service de livraison Subito: Commander maintenant.
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WorldCat: WorldCat
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publié: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2014.
Dans:Année: 2014
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Éthique juive / Bioéthique
Sujets non-standardisés:B Medical laws and legislation ; Israel
B Medical laws and legislation (Israël)
B Medical laws and legislation (Jewish law)
B Medical laws and legislation Israël
B Jewish ethics
Accès en ligne: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Édition parallèle:Erscheint auch als: 9781107024663
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Résumé: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.
Introduction -- An outline of "Jewish bioethics" -- Health and healthcare -- Doctor patient relationship -- The human body -- Fertility and very early prenatal life -- Childbirth and abortion -- Care for premature neonates -- Organ transplantation and the brain death debate -- Terminal care and the ends of life
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Description matérielle:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 285 pages), digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:978-1-139-17589-0
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139175890