Zoloth

Second Texts and Second Opinions: Essays Towards a Jewish Bioethics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about bioethical dilemmas in a large public children's ward. It goes beyond the usual work in secular bioethics by turning to the classic texts of Jewish thought. The book constructs a discussion between and among several disciplines, clinical medicine, Jewish philosophy, and feminist thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197632130
• ISBN-10: 0197632130
• Artikelnr.: 66152879

Autorenporträt

Laurie Zoloth is the Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics and Senior Advisor to the Provost for Social Ethics, at the University of Chicago and former Dean of the Divinity School. She was President of the American Academy of Religion and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and Vice President of the Society for Jewish Ethics. She has published many books on bioethics and Jewish thought. She is currently a member of the Engineering Biology Research Consortium Board of Advisors, the NASA National Bioethics Committee, and the Ethics Advisory Board of the American Heart Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Writing a Jewish Bioethics
Chapter 1: The Duty of Repair in a Broken World
Chapter 2: Thinking as Interrupted Conversation
Chapter 3: Suffering and its Uselessness
Chapter 4: Seeing the Doubting Judge
Chapter 5: How to be Good
Chapter 6: In Case
Chapter 7: Trading in Futures
Chapter 8: The Full Onus of Mercy
Chapter 9: Duty Bound
Chapter 10: Making the Things of the World
Chapter 11: Ordinary Talk about Ordinary Trouble
Conclusion