Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health, Illness and Disease (At the Interface: Probing the Boundaries, 21) (At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries)
Contributors: Peter L. Twohig (Editor); Vera Kalitzkus (Editor)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: November 18, 2004
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9789042019737
Subjects: Medicine: General Issues
First sentence: The immensity of the value of life in the Jewish tradition is forcefully expressed in a talmudic source: "He who saves a single life is as if he saved the entire world, and he who destroys a single life is as if he destroyed the entire world."