Issues in Jewish Ethics: Medical Ethics

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