ISBN:
9780929699240
,
0929699246
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 145 Seiten
,
23 cm
Year of publication:
2012
Series Statement:
Studies in progressive halakhah [Volume 19]
Series Statement:
Studies in progressive Halakhah
Parallel Title:
Elektronische Reproduktion Medical frontiers in Jewish law
Keywords:
Medical laws and legislation (Jewish law)
;
Medicine Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Jewish ethics
;
Reform Judaism
;
Religion and Medicine
;
Judaism
;
Legislation, Medical ethics
;
Medical laws and legislation (Jewish law)
;
Medicine
;
Jewish ethics
;
Reform Judaism
;
Religion and Medicine
;
Judaism
;
Legislation, Medical
;
United States
;
United States
Abstract:
The Woodchopper revisited : on analogy, Halakhah, and Jewish bioethics / Mark Washofsky -- "An Ounce of Prevention, A Pound of Cure" : preventive surgery as legitimate medicine / Audrey R. Korotkin -- Compulsory testing for HIV and other infectious diseases / Jonah Sievers -- Changing views of health care delivery / Walter Jacob -- Selected responsa : Dangers of surgery correcting congenital craniofacial malformations -- Banks for human organs -- AIDS and free needles for drug addicts -- Taharah and AIDS -- Jewish involvement in genetic engineering -- Patenting genetic engineering
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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