Medicine and Jewish law
By: edited by Fred Rosner.
Contributors: Rosner, Fred.; Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists. Rephael Society, Health Care Section.
Publisher: J. Aronson
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Northvale, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Legislation, Medical; Religion and Medicine; Ethics, Medical; Judaism; Bioethical Issues; Bioethics; Medicine; Religion; Theology; Abortion, Induced; Autopsy; Brain Death; Communicable Diseases; Contraception; Cultural Diversity; Death; Deception; Euthanasia; Euthanasia, Passive; Health Care Rationing; Moral Obligations; Organ Transplantation; Patient Care; Physician-Patient Relations; Physicians; Public Policy; Quality of Life; Refusal to Treat; Reproductive Techniques, Assisted; Social Responsibility; Social Values; Terminal Care; Tissue and Organ Procurement; Tissue Donors; Truth Disclosure; Value of Life; Withholding Treatment
Notes: "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"--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.