Product Description: Heated debates are not unusual when confronting tough medical issues where it seems that moral and religious perspectives often erupt in conflict with philosophical or political positions. In The Sanctity of Human Life, Jewish theologian David Novak acknowledges that it is impossible not to take into account the theological view of human life, but the challenge is how to present the religious perspective to nonreligious people...read more

Product Description: Hippocratic And Judeo-Christian Medical Ethics is an overview of the medical ethical system which has addressed the moral problems of medicine for the past 2500 years. It summarizes the history of ethics in the practice of medicine, and highlights the basic principles of the traditional school of medical ethics...read more

Product Description: A former teaching and practicing physician in New York, Rosner continues his exploration of Jewish medical ethics by looking at issues regarding the beginning of life, patients' rights, informed consent, confidentiality, end of life, the allocation of limited medical resources, preparing for bioterrorism, and other topics...read more

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