Jewish BioethicsHow do you define the precise moment of death? Should "pulling the plug" and mercy killings be allowed by law? Is it necessary to control the birth of "test tube babies"? Should abortions be legal and freely available? What are the social implications of sex-change operations? Should research on cloning and genetic engineering be allowed and encouraged? Should doctors be permitted to perform medical experiments on human subjects? |
Contents
The Obligation to Heal in the Judaic Tradition A Comparative Analysis | 3 |
The Physician and the Patient in Jewish Law | 47 |
Pigeons as a Remedy Segulah for Jaundice | 59 |
Sexuality and Procreation | 69 |
Be Fruitful and Multiply | 71 |
Sex Preselection | 91 |
TestTube Babies | 99 |
Contraception in Jewish Law | 105 |
The Quinlan Case A Jewish Perspective | 285 |
Establishing Criteria of Death | 297 |
The Halakhic Definition of Death | 317 |
Neurological Criteria of Death and Time of Death Statutes | 325 |
Research andor Training on the Newly Dead The Jewish Perspective | 339 |
Suicide in Jewish Law | 349 |
Autopsy in Jewish Law and the Israeli Autopsy Controversy | 363 |
Organ Transplantation | 381 |
Population Controlthe Jewish View | 117 |
Artificial Insemination in Jewish Law | 125 |
Jewish Views on Abortion | 139 |
Abortion in Halakhic Literature | 155 |
TaySachs Disease To Screen Or Not To Screen | 197 |
Transsexual Surgery | 209 |
Judaism and the Modern Attitude to Homosexuality | 215 |
Mental Health and Drugs | 237 |
Psychiatry Psychotherapy and Halakhah A Torah Perspective on the Philosophy of Behavior Change | 239 |
Drugs A Jewish View | 259 |
Death and Dying | 269 |
The Jewish Attitude Toward Euthanasia | 271 |
What is the Halakhah for Organ Transplants? | 383 |
Organ Transplantation in Jewish Law | 389 |
Human Experimentation | 407 |
Medical Experimentation on Humans in Jewish Law | 409 |
Experimentation on Human Subjects | 417 |
Judaism and Human Experimentation | 421 |
Genetic Engineering | 433 |
Judaism and Gene Design | 435 |
Genetic Engineering and Judaism | 443 |
Biographical Notes | |
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