Medical Issues in Jewish Law

Abortion

Assisted Reproduction and Judaism

Autopsy

The Brain Death Controversy

The Breast Cancer Genes

Cloning People and Jewish Law: A Preliminary Analysis

Cloning

Embryo Research

Euthanasia and the Right to Die

Genetic Screening and Genetic Therapy

Moral Dilemmas Faced by Jewish Doctors During the Holocaust

Oath of Maimonides

Organ Donation

Organ Transplants

The Role of a Physician

Siamese Twins

Stem Cell Research

Using Medical Data From Nazi Experiments
Medical Journal Research

“Arba ‘ah Turim of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher on Medical Ethics, ” Rabbi David Fink, Ph.D. [pdf]

“Artificial Insemination in Israel — A Legal View: The position of the Israeli Judicial System Regarding Artificial Insemination of a Married Woman,” by Joseph Green [pdf]

“Carrying an Epi-Pen on Shabbat,” by Alice Frankl [pdf]

“The Congenital Eunuch: A Medical-Halachic Study,” by Julian H. Barth, M.D. and Moshe Zemer, D.H.L. [pdf]

“Determination of Death,” by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein [pdf]

“Free Will vs. Determinism in Bioethics: Comparative Philosophical and Jewish Perspectives,” by Avraham Steinberg, M.D. [pdf]

“Healthcare Reform, Rationing, and Equity: a Societal Challenge,” by Shimon M. Glick, M.D. [pdf]

“Is There Patient Autonomy in Halacha?” by Rabbi Zev Schostak [pdf]

“In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF), Insemination, and Egg Donation,” Rabbi Mordechai Halperin, M.D. [pdf]

“Jewish Medical Ethics,” by Avraham Steinberg, M.D. [pdf]

“Medical Ethics,” by Avraham Steinberg, M.D. [pdf]

“Medical-Halachic Decisions of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (1910-1995),” by Avraham Steinberg, M.D. [pdf]

“Milestones in Jewish Medical Ethics: Medical-Halachic Literature in Israel, 1948-1998,” by Rabbi Mordechai Halperin, M.D. [pdf]

“Modern Perspectives on Medical halakhah,” by Rabbi Mordechai Halperin, M.D. [pdf]

“The Obligation to Heal & Medical Malpractice: The Right and the Obligation of the Physician to Heal,” Compiled by Rabbi Zvi Ilani and Rabbi Yaakov Weinberger, Translated from the Hebrew by Uriah F. Cheskin and Yitzchak Pechenick [pdf]

“Unilateral Nephrectomy: The Adverse Effects of Live Kidney Donation,” by Alfred (Aharon) Drukker, M.D., Ph.D. [pdf]

“Post-Mortem Sperm Retrieval,” by Rabbi Mordechai Halperin, M.D. [pdf]

“Some Modern Responsa on Medico-Moral Problems, ” by Lord Immanuel Jakobovits [pdf]

“The ‘Value’ of a Baby,” by Batsheva Hershkovits, M.D. [pdf]

“Who Decides — the Patient, the Physician, or the Rabbi?” by Shimon M. Glick, M.D. [pdf]

Sources: All PDF files are medical journal articles by various authors from The Schlesinger Institute for Jewish Medical Ethics

Issues in Jewish Ethics: Medical Ethics