Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-legal, Political, and Empirical Analysis

Cambridge University Press, 1/11/2018
EAN 9781107159846, ISBN10: 1107159849

Hardcover, 332 pages, 24.2 x 16.4 x 2.3 cm
Language: English

Although the 'Israeli case' of bioethics has been well documented, this book offers a novel understanding of Israeli bioethics that is a milestone in the comparative literature of bioethics. Bringing together a range of experts, the book's interdisciplinary structure employs a contemporary, sociopolitical-oriented approach to bioethics issues, with an emphasis on empirical analysis, that will appeal not only to scholars of bioethics, but also to students of law, medicine, humanities, and social sciences around the world. Its focus on the development of bioethics in Israel makes it especially relevant to scholars of Israeli society - both in and out of Israel - as well as medical practitioners and health policymakers in Israel.

Introduction
bioethics in Israel Hagai Boas, Nadav Davidovitch, Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, Dani Filc and Shai J. Lavi
Part I. Bioethics as Biopolitics
1. Biosecuritization of public health preparedness in Israel and Palestine
from traditional bioethics to public health ethics Nadav Davidovitch and Benjamin Langer
2. Republican bioethics Dani Flic
3. From bioethics to biopolitics in recent Israeli legislation about force-feeding hunger-striking inmates Yoav Kenny
4. A cognitive dissonant health system
can we combat racism without admitting it exists? Hadas Ziv
5. Nothing about us without us
a disability challenge to bioethics Sagit Mor
Part II. Familialism and Reproduction
6. The effect of Jewish-Israeli family ideology on policy regarding reproductive technologies Yael Hashiloni-Dolev
7. 'Quiet, dependent, nice and loyal
surrogacy agencies discourse of international surrogacy Hedva Eyal and Adi Moreno
8. Palestinian fertility in Israeli sphere Himmat Zu'bi
9. Childbirth in Israel
home birth and newborn screening Margherita Brusa and Yechiel Bar Ilan
10. 'Life after death'
the Israeli approach to posthumous reproduction Vardit Ravitsky and Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen
Part III. Is There an Israeli Exception?
11. Reckless or pioneering? Public health genetics services in Israel Aviad E. Raz
12. The end-of-life decision-making process in Israel
bioethics, law and the practice of doctors Roy Gilbar and Nili Karako-Eyal
13. Organ donation, brain death and the limits of liberal bioethics Hagai Boas and Shai J. Lavi
14. Towards an Israeli medical ethics Michael Weingarten
15. Tilting the frame
Israeli suicide as an alternative to suicide in Israel Haim Hazan and Raquel Romberg.