Author : J. Crane
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1137021098
Narratives and Jewish Bioethics searches for answers to the critical question of what roles ancient narratives play in creating modern norms by Jewish bioethicists utilizing the Jewish textual tradition.
Author : Noam J. Zohar
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 2006-03-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 073915981X
This anthology of original essays by leading thinkers in the field gathers together in one place voices from diverse theological and practical commitments. Unlike other publications on Jewish bioethics, it adopts an explicitly pluralistic stance. The book addresses tension between the 'quality of life' and the 'sanctity of life' issues, and will be of interest to lay readers, graduate students of bioethics, and rabbis.
Author : Laurie Zoloth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,53 MB
Release : 2022-09-02
Category :
ISBN : 0197632130
This book takes as its subject the intensely private discussions that arise when ordinary people confront life and death choices and struggle with decisions in a world of medical and scientific complexity. Laurie Zoloth began her work in bioethics in a large public California hospital system, where she was part of a group tasked with the creation of an ethics committee in every hospital in the system, that would hear hundreds of cases every year, including pediatric cases from the hospital's intensive care, neonatal intensive care, burn, and oncology units. The book explores the dilemmas presented in these cases and reflects on the competing, often incommensurate moral appeals offered by the participants. It then analyzes the cases against and with similar concepts within Jewish thought, using rabbinic texts to make legible the factors at play as one makes ethical judgments. This philosophical position is feminist as it considers and at times advocates for the inclusion of family and community in the rationale of the clinical setting. Intertwined with legal statements in the Talmud are aggadot, or midrashic texts, literary narratives used to argue a point, or to complicate a point, or to deepen the meaning of the communal discourse, adding history, case studies, or fictive tales to the discussion. Zoloth argues that these texts can be usefully applied to problems in bioethics. She develops the case for a textual turn that is fully imagined and enriched by the many possible re-interpretations of narrative: biblical, rabbinic, medieval, modern, and post-modern.
Author : Rita Charon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 35,13 MB
Release : 2004-04-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1135957274
First published in 2002. The doctor patient relationship starts with a story. Doctors' notes, a patient's chart, the recommendations of ethics committees and insurance justifications all hinge on written and verbal narrative interaction. The practice of narrative profoundly affects decision making, patient health and treatment and the everyday practice of medicine. In this edited collection, the contributors provide conceptual foundations, practical guidelines and theoretical considerations central to the practice of narrative ethics.
Author : Rabbi William Cutter
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 24,85 MB
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1580235948
Where Judaism and health intersect, healing may begin. Essential reading for people interested in the Jewish healing, spirituality and spiritual direction movements, this groundbreaking volume explores the Jewish tradition for comfort in times of illness and Judaism’s perspectives on the inevitable suffering with which we live. Pushing the boundaries of Jewish knowledge, scholars, teachers, artists and activists examine the aspects of our mortality and the important distinctions between curing and healing. Topics discussed include: The Importance of the Individual Health and Healing among the Mystics Hope and the Hebrew Bible From Disability to Enablement Overcoming Stigma Jewish Bioethics Drawing from literature, personal experience, and the foundational texts of Judaism, these celebrated thinkers show us that healing is an idea that can both soften us so that we are open to inspiration as well as toughen us—like good scar tissue—in order to live with the consequences of being human.
Author : Rachel Adler
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 2008-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1580233732
Essential reading for people interested in the Jewish healing, spirituality and spiritual direction movements, this groundbreaking volume explores the Jewish tradition for comfort in times of illness and Judaism?s perspectives on the inevitable suffering with which we live.Pushing the boundaries of Jewish knowledge, scholars, teachers, artists and activists examine the aspects of our mortality and the important distinctions between curing and healing. Topics discussed include: the importance of the individual; health and healing among the mystics; hope and the Hebrew Bible; from disability to enablement; overcoming stigma; Jewish bioethics; and more.Drawing from literature, personal experience, and the foundational texts of Judaism, these celebrated thinkers show us that healing is an idea that can both soften us so that we are open to inspiration as well as toughen us?like good scar tissue?in order to live with the consequences of being human.
Author : Laurie Zoloth
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807876208
The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as inflation in health care costs, a scarcity of health care resources, and a lack of access for a growing number of people in the national health care system. Some observers suggest that we in fact face two crises: the crisis of scarce resources and the crisis of inadequate language in the discourse of ethics for framing a response. Laurie Zoloth offers a bold claim: to renew our chances of achieving social justice, she argues, we must turn to the Jewish tradition. That tradition envisions an ethics of conversational encounter that is deeply social and profoundly public, as well as offering resources for recovering a language of community that addresses the issues raised by the health care allocation debate. Constructing her argument around a careful analysis of selected classic and postmodern Jewish texts and a thoughtful examination of the Oregon health care reform plan, Zoloth encourages a radical rethinking of what has become familiar ground in debates on social justice.
Author : Elliot N. Dorff
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0827612249
Of the science of stem cell research / Elliot N. Dorff and Laurie Zoloth -- Applying Jewish law to stem cell research / Elliot N. Dorff -- Divine representations and the value of embryos : god's image, god's name, and the status of human nonpersons / Noam J. Zohar -- "Like water" : using Genesis to formulate an alternative Jewish position on the beginning of life / Yosef Leibowitz -- Reasonable magic : stem cell research and forbidden knowledge / Laurie Zoloth -- Summary of the science of genetic mapping and identity / Elliot N. Dorff and Laurie Zoloth -- Folk taxonomy, prejudice, and the human genome / Judith S. Neulander -- What is a Jew? The meaning of genetic disease for Jewish identity / Rebecca Alpert -- Yearning for the long-lost home : the lemba and the Jewish narrative of genetic return / Laurie Zoloth -- Summary of the science of genetic testing / Elliot N. Dorff and Laurie Zoloth -- Genetic testing in the Jewish community / Paul Root Wolpe -- Jewish genetic decision making and an ethic of care / Toby l. Schonfeld -- Summary of the science of genetic intervention / Elliot N. Dorff and Laurie Zoloth -- Some Jewish thoughts on genetic enhancement / Shimon Glick -- Curing disease and enhancing traits : a philosophical (and Jewish) perspective / Ronald M. Green -- Genetic enhancement and the image of god / Aaron l. Mackler -- "Blessed is the one who is good and who brings forth goodness" : a Jewish theological response to the ethical challenges of new genetic technologies / Louis E. Newman -- Jewish reflections on genetic enhancement / Jeffrey H. Burack -- Mending the code / Robert Gibbs -- Religious traditions in a postreligious world : does halakhah have insights for nonbelievers? / John Lantos -- How the unconscious shapes modern genomic science / Robert pollack -- To fix the world : Jewish convictions affecting social issues / Elliot N. Dorff.
Author : P.F. Camenisch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9401583625
A volume on religious/theological methods in biomedical ethics inevitably of whether the methodological dimension can be distin raises the question guished from the various other things that go on in ethical discourse. It is difficult to answer this question definitively since many elements in moral conversation can be interpreted in different ways. Barbara Hilkert Andolsen illustrates this issue in this volume when she defines one of her crucial cate gories, gender justice, as being both procedural and substantive/normative. This difficulty of finally separating the methodological from the normative arises in many areas of contemporary ethical writing, both feminist and otherwise. Nevertheless, it seems that in many cases we can separate out the method ological issues with considerable precision. Albert Jonsen and James Childress achieve just such a sharp focus in their essays. This does not mean that a careful dissecting of their papers would not reveal normative elements lurking about their methodological points. It is simply to say that the issues they analyze and the positions they take are, at least prima facie, overwhelmingly method ological. They are much more about how we think about ethical matters than they are about what we think about them.
Author : William Cutter
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1580234283
This volume examines the spiritual shortfalls of our current healing environment and explores how midrash can help you see beyond the physical aspects of healing to tune in to your spiritual source.
