Week 10: Medico-Legal Problems
Required Reading (BA and MA)
Shatz, David, "Concepts of Autonomy in Jewish Medical Ethics", The Jewish Law Annual 12 (1997), 3-43
Required Reading (MA)
J. David Bleich, " Of Cerebral, Respiratory and Cardiac Death", in his Contempirary Halakhic Problems (New York: Ktav. 1995), Vol. IV, pp.316-350 (SLC 296.42/B1)
Further Reading
Ben Meir, Yehoshua, "Legal Parenthood and Genetic Parenthood in Jewish Law", The Jewish Law Annual 12 (1997), 153-166 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Bleich, J.D., "Artificial Heart Implantation", in B.S. Jackson, ed., The Oxford Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990: Jewish Law Association Studies, III), 109-146 (in process); also in Bleich, J.D., Contemporary Halakhic Problems (New York: Ktav. 1989), Vol. III, pp. 160-193 (SLC 296.42/B1)
Bleich, J.D., "Hazardous Medical Procedures", The Jewish Law Annual II (1979), 194-199 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH); also in Bleich, J.D., Contemporary Halakhic Problems (New York: Ktav. 1983), Vol. II, pp. 80-84 (SLC 296.42/B1)
Bleich, J.D., "Establishing Criteria of Death", in Bleich, J.D., Contemporary Halakhic Problems (New York: Ktav. 1977), pp.372-393 (SLC 296.42/B1)
Bleich, J.D., "Neurological Criteria of Death and Time of Death Statutes", The Jewish Law Annual III (1980), 115-128 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Cohn-Sherbok, D., "Euthanasia and Reform Judaism", in B.S. Jackson, ed., The Oxford Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990: Jewish Law Association Studies, III), 147-152 (in process)
Dorff, E.N., "A Methodology for Jewish Medical Ethics", in B.S. Jackson and S.M. Passamaneck, eds., The Jeruslem 1990 Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992: Jewish Law Association Studies, VI), pp.35-57 (Blue 4, 349.33/J4)
Dorff, Elliot N., "Jewish Law and Lore: the Case of Organ Transplantation", The Jewish Law Annual 12 (1997), 65-114
Frenkel, D.A., "Transplants", in N. Rakover, ed., Jewish Law and Current Legal Problems (Jerusalem: Library of Jewish Law, 1984), 195-201 (on order)
Freehof, S.B., "Kidney Transplants", in New Reform Responsa (Hebrew Union College Press, 1980), 62-67 (BSJ)
Freehof, S.B., "The Test-tube Baby", in New Reform Responsa (Hebrew Union College Press, 1980), 205-213 (BSJ)
Freehof, S.B., "The Use of the Cornea of the Dead", in Reform Responsa for our Time (Hebrew Union College Press, 1977), 153-158 (BSJ)
Frimer, D.I, "Law and Morality in Halakhic Bioethics", in B.S. Jackson, ed., The Jeruslem Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986: Jewish Law Association Studies, II), 143-164 (Blue 4, 349.33/J5)
Halibard, G., "Euthanasia", The Jewish Law Annual 1 (1978), 192-196 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Halperin, M., "The Legal Significance of the Decision of the Chief Rabbinate Council on Heart Transplants in Israel", in B.S. Jackson and S.M. Passamaneck, eds., The Jeruslem 1990 Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992: Jewish Law Association Studies, VI), pp.59-63 (Blue 4, 349.33/J4)
Herring, Basil F., Jewish Medical Ethics for our Time. Sources and Commnetary (New York: Ktav Publishing House Inc., 1984), ch.3 (on order)
Jakobovits, Immanuel, Jewish Medical Ethics, New York: Bloch PUblishing Co., 1975, 2nd ed., esp. chs/.11, 13 and Appendices (on order)
Rayner, J.D., "Euthanasia", in Jewish Religious Law. A Progressive Perspective (New York: Berghahn Books, 1998), 138-143 (on order)
Rayner, J.D., "Organ Transplantation", in Jewish Religious Law. A Progressive Perspective (New York: Berghahn Books, 1998), 130-137 (on order)
Rosner, Fred, Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud: selections from classical Jewish sources, New York: Ktav, 1977, Blue 4, 296.3/R88
Rosner, Fred, Modern Medicine and Jewish Ethics. - Hoboken, N.J.: Ktav Pub. House, 1986, Green 2 A1.6/R1
Schaefer, A.G., "Reality of Consent", in B.S. Jackson, ed., The Boston Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990: Jewish Law Association Studies, IV), 69-88 (Blue 4, 349.33/J6)
Shapira, Y., "Euthanasia", in N. Rakover, ed., Jewish Law and Current Legal Problems (Jerusalem: Library of Jewish Law, 1984), 225-231 (on order)
Shifman, Pinhas, "New Reproductive Technologies and Jewish Law", The Jewish Law Annual 12 (1997), 127-136
Sinclair, D.B., "Brain Death", The Jewish Law Annual 9 (1991), 257-262 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Sinclair, D.B., "Consent to Medical Procedures", The Jewish Law Annual 11 (1994), 237-241 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Sinclair, D.B., "Patient Self-Determination and Advance Directives", in E.A. Goldman, ed., The Jerusalem 1994 Conference Volume (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996: Jewish Law Association Studies, VIII), pp.173-182 (on order)
Sinclair, D.B., "Treatment of the Terminally Ill", The Jewish Law Annual 12 (1997), 259-264 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Sinclair, D.B., "Withdrawal of Consent to the Implantation of Frozen Embryos", The Jewish Law Annual 12 (1997), 253-259- (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Sinclair, Daniel B., Tradition and the Biological Revolution. The Application of Jewish Law to the Treatment of the Critically Ill, Edinburgh University Press, 1989 (on order)
Steinberg. Avraham, "Informed Consent. Ethical and Halakhic Considerations", The Jewish Law Annual 12 (1997), 137-152
Tendler, R., ed., Responsa of Rav Moshe Feinstein, Volume 1: Care of the Critically Ill, KTAV Publishing House, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 1998? (on order)
Westreich, Elimelech, "Medicine and Jewish Law in the Rabbinical Courts in Israel: Matters of Infertility", The Jewish Law Annual 12 (1997), 45-64
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