Jewish Ethics and the Care of End-Of-Life Patients : A Collection of Rabbinical, Bioethical, Philosophical, and Juristic Opinions

by Hurwitz, Peter Joel; Picard, Jacques; Steinberg, Avraham; Sklarz, Benjamin

• ISBN13: 9780881259216
• ISBN10: 0881259217
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-15
• Publisher: Ktav Pub & Distributors Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	1	(5)
Jacques Picard
Introduction	5	(8)
Peter Joel Hurwitz
Jewish Religious Law	13	(18)
Rabbi David Bollag
Assisted Death	31	(26)
Elias Hofstetter
Mario Marti
Treatment of the Terminally Ill	57	(18)
L. David Bleich
``Some'' Reflections on Jewish Tradition and the End-of-Life Patient	75	(24)
Leonard S. Kravitz
A Law Proposal in Israel Regarding the Patient at the End of Life	99	(6)
Avraham Steinberg
Dying with Dignity in a Jewish-Democratic State	105	(14)
Vardit Ravitsky
The Jewish Physician and End-of-life Decisions	119	(12)
Shimon M. Glick
Implementing Empathy at the End of Life	131	(18)
Maurice Lamm
Ethics and Reality	149	(14)
Lydia Goldschmidt
Assisted Death?	163	(14)
Hans Kung
Terminal Care of Children	177	(30)
Walter H. Hitzig
The Report of the Public Committee on Matters Concerning the Terminally Ill Patient	207	(8)
Draft Law: the Terminally Ill Patient, 5762 -- 2002	215	(28)
Glossary	243	(4)
Authors	247	(2)
Index	249