Selected themes in Jewish Bioethics - Einzelansicht

In this seminar, we will deal with Jewish approaches to various issues in medical ethics. We will examine how Jewish thinkers and theologians relate to matters such as abortion, organ donation, euthanasia, and end-of-life decisions.

The Seminar will be conducted in English.

Relevant literature

Alan Jotkowitz, “On the Methodology of Jewish Medical Ethics”, Tradition 43, 1 (2010), pp. 38-55.

Byron Sherwin, Jewish Ethics for the 21^st Century: Living in the Image of God, New York 2000.

Chaya Greenberger, “The hierarchy of values in Jewish bioethics”, Nursing Ethics, 18 (4) (2011), pp. 537–547.

Daneil Shiff, Abortion in Judaism, New York 2004.

Daniel Sinclair, Jewish Biomedical Law: Legal and Extralegal Dimensions, New York 2008.

David Bleich, “Benefits in Treating the Gravely Ill Patient: Ethical and Religious Considerations, in Levi Meier (ed.), Jewish Values in Bioethics, New York 1986, pp. 57-74.

David Bleich, “Pikuach Nefesh: The Concept of Refu’ah Bedukah”, Tradition vol. 25 (1989), 50-58.

Elliot Dorff, “A Methodology for Jewish Medical Ethics”, in Contemporary Jewish Ethics and Morality: A Reader, Oxford University Press 1995, pp, 165-176.

Elliot Dorff and Laurie Zoloth (eds.), Jews and Genes: The Genetic Future in Contemporary Jewish Thought, Philadelphia 2015.

Elliot Dorff, Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics, Philadelphia 1998.

Henk ten Have (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, Pittsburgh 2016.

John Bryant, Linda la Velle, Introduction to Bioethics, John Wiley & Sons, 2018.

Louis Newman, Jewish Theology and Bioethics, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 17 (1992), pp. 309-327.

Miryam Wahrman, Brave New Judaism: When Science and Scripture Collide, Hanover  2002.

Noam Zohar, Alterations with Jewish Bioethics, State University of New York,

Albany, 1997.

Ronald Cole-Turner (ed.), Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification, Massachusetts 2008.

Referat: one in-class presentation and submission of its manuscript (printed), active participation in class discussion.