TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dorff, Elliot N. 
TI  - Matters of life and death: a Jewish approach to modern medical ethics
SN  - 97808276076820827607687
AV  - BM538.H43  .D68 1998
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - Jewish Publication Society, 
KW  - Medicine—Religious aspects—Judaism.  Health—Religious aspects—Judaism.  Medical laws and legislation (Jewish law)
N1  - 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
ER  -