Contemporary biomedical ethical issues and Jewish law /
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| Language: | English |
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Jersey City, N.J. :
KTAV Publishing House,
[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- 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?.