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Jewish Answers to Medical Questions
Nisson Schulman
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Description for Jewish Answers to Medical Questions
Hardback. Selects a number of questions to which the answers actually encompass medical ethics issues including genetic engineering, new birth techniques, surrogate parenthood, embryo research, marriage, sex selection, saving and preserving life, transplant surgery, scarce resources, care of the critically ill, and organ donations and transplants. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; MBDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
As head of the department of Medical Ethics for Britain's Chief Rabbi's office, Rabbi Nisson E. Shulman was entrusted with the task of responding to questions on halakhah (Jewish law) and medicine which came from virtually all over the world, and from a wide variety of sources: from government agencies such as the Ministry of Foods and Fisheries, from Medical Foundations and groups such as the Nuffield Foundation, the College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the Lingard Fertility Clinic in Australia, from groups with polemic agendas such as the Lynx Organization fighting the fur trade, and from individuals who had questions ... Read more
As head of the department of Medical Ethics for Britain's Chief Rabbi's office, Rabbi Nisson E. Shulman was entrusted with the task of responding to questions on halakhah (Jewish law) and medicine which came from virtually all over the world, and from a wide variety of sources: from government agencies such as the Ministry of Foods and Fisheries, from Medical Foundations and groups such as the Nuffield Foundation, the College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the Lingard Fertility Clinic in Australia, from groups with polemic agendas such as the Lynx Organization fighting the fur trade, and from individuals who had questions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Northvale NJ, United States
ISBN
9780765760166
SKU
V9780765760166
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About Nisson Schulman
Nisson E. Shulman has served as a rabbi in leading congregations on three continents: New York's Fifth Avenue Synagogue, Sydney, Australia's Central Synagogue, and London's St. John Wood Synagogue, the flagship congregation of the United Synagogue (Orthodox) of Great Britain. He is the author of Authority and Community, which recreates the community of Central Europe from where most Ashkenazic Jews ... Read more
Reviews for Jewish Answers to Medical Questions
This book serves as a valuable introduction for the layman to the rapidly growing field of Jewish medical ethics. In precise and lucid language, Rabbi Shulman describes basic principles in the Jewish tradition as they relate to the practice of medicine. His insights and articulate presentation of Jewish answers to a wide variety of medical ethics questions posed to the ... Read more