Barilan, Y. Michael (Full Professor, School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University),Brusa, Margherita (Research fellow, Medical Ethics and Law Initiative, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel),
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"Human dignity" has been enshrined in international agreements and nationalconstitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians torespect human dignity and to
This book presents the discourse in Jewish law and rabbinic literature on bioethical issues, highlighting practical problems in their socio-historical contexts. Yechiel Michael Barilan discusses end-of-life care, abortion, infertility treatments, the brain death debate, and the organ market. Barilan also presents the theology and spirituality of Jewish medical law, the communal responsibility for healthcare, and the charitable sick-care societies that flourished in the Jewish communities until the beginning of the twentieth century.
"Human dignity" has been enshrined in international agreements and nationalconstitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians torespect human dignity and to
The first major monograph on Israeli artist Aya Ben Ron (born 1967), this book features selected works from every series the artist has produced in the past ten years. In sculpture, video, drawing and