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Matters of life and death : a Jewish approach to modern medical ethics
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- Creator
- Elliot N. Dorff
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- Manuscripts, Theses
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- [Cambridge] : [International Society for Science and Religion], [2007?]
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- xix, 456 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780827607682, 0827607687
- OCLC
- ocn951424203
- "ZZ6 DE01" -- Spine.
- Previously Published : Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-442) and index.
- Matters of method and belief. Consulting the Jewish tradition for moral guidance -- Fundamental beliefs underlying Jewish medical ethics -- Moral issues at the beginning of life. Having children with one's own genetic materials -- Having children using donated genetic materials -- Preventing pregnancy -- The social context of generating life -- Matters at the end of life. Preparing for death -- The process of dying -- After death: cremation, autopsy, and organ donation -- The commununal context of medical care. Preventing illness -- Linking mind and body -- Nonmedical aspects of medical care -- Epilogue: An imperative to choose life -- Appendix: The philosophical foundations of my approach to bioethics