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Contemporary biomedical ethical issues and Jewish law

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Title Contemporary biomedical ethical issues and Jewish law / Fred Rosner.
Publisher Jersey City, N.J : KTAV Pub. House
Creation Date [2007?]
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-228) and index.
Content Genetic screening and genetic therapy -- The ethical use of stem cells -- Medical research in children -- Human cloning -- Separating Siamese twins -- The treatment of newborns with ambiguous or traumatized genitalia -- Physicians' fees in Jewish law -- Medical confidentiality and patient privacy -- Court-ordered medical and surgical interventions -- Informed consent: recent developments -- Informing the patient about a fatal disease: from paternalism to autonomy -- Medical malpractice, negligence, and liability in liability -- Problem doctors: is there a solution? -- Patients' rights and caregivers' rights (physicians and nurses) -- The Terri Schiavo case in Jewish law -- Death by withdrawal of nutrition and hydration: mercy or murder? -- Hospice care for the terminally ill: help or hindrance? -- Futile care for the terminally ill: it may be legal, but is it ethical or morally justifiable? -- Human research in critically ill patients in an ICU or emergency room setting -- Organ transplantation and Jewish law -- Payment for organ donors -- Ethical dilemmas of an observant Jewish physician practicing in a secular society -- Managed care : a Jewish view -- Therapeutic efficacy of laughter in medicine -- Allocation or misallocation of limited medical resources -- Are the courts practicing medicine? -- Smoking, lung cancer, and the tobacco industry : ethical considerations -- Bioterrorism : are we prepared?
Extent xxii, 239 pages
24 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990043975680205171

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