Jewish responses to AIDS
By: edited and with an introduction by Gad Freudenthal.
Contributors: Freudenthal, Gad.
Publisher: Ktav Pub. House
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.; Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.; Medical laws and legislation (Jewish law); Jewish ethics.; Medical ethics.
Description: Like any novel societal phenomenon, the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) pandemic forced Jewish thinkers - rabbis, physicians, philosophers, and others - to examine whether this scourge raises new issues or problems for Judaism. The present volume provides a fairly full picture of the responses AIDS has solicited within Judaism on the theological, ethical and halakhic planes.

The volume consists of a comprehensive introduction by the editor, followed by almost all major texts bearing on AIDS and Judaism published between 1986 and 1995 in the United States, United Kingdom and Israel.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.