Jewish Bioethics: Rabbinic Law and Theology in their Social and Historical Contexts
Cambridge University Press, 12/30/2013
EAN 9781107024663, ISBN10: 1107024668
Hardcover, 294 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Language: English
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.
1. Introduction
2. An outline of 'Jewish bioethics'
3. Health and healthcare
4. Doctor-patient relationship
5. The human body
6. Fertility and very early prenatal life
7. Childbirth and abortion
8. Care for premature neonates
9. Organ transplantation and the brain death debate
10. Terminal care.