Medicine and Jewish law
By: edited by Fred Rosner.
Contributors: Rosner, Fred.; Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists. Rephael Society, Health Care Section.; International Physicians' Conference on Medicine and Halachah.
Publisher: J. Aronson
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Northvale, N.J
Language: eng
Subjects: Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Medical ethics; Jewish ethics; Medical laws and legislation (Jewish law)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"The Raphael [i.e. Rephael] Society, Health Care Section of the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists (AOJS), sponsored an International Physicians' Conference on Medicine and Halachah (Jewish law), which was held at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue in New York City on January 1-2, 1989 ... The content of these proceedings is the basis of this book"--Vol. [1], foreword.
"A second conference on Medicine and Halachah wasd held in New York in May 1990. The present book represents the proceedings of that conference"--Vol. 2, p. xiii.