Jerusalem Center for Research - Medicine and Halacha

This 270-page volume is a compilation of Rabbi Weiner's lectures in Israel and abroad, together with his lectures in the Shirley and Norman Sutton Israel Forum on Medicine and Halacha and previously unpublished material.

The book, written for the medical community, Rabbis and lay persons, encourages its readers to increase their knowledge of Torah values in medicine. Guidelines for proper practice are included.

Halachic perspectives on smoking, a chapter in Part V: Protecting one's health is available online.

Approbations:
Harav Chaim P. Scheinberg
Harav Tuvia Goldstein
Harav Yitzchak Halperin

Contents

Part I: Medicine and Life
1. The obligation to preserve one's own life
2. The obligation to accept medical treatment
3. Treatment of the terminally ill
4. Life in relation to quality of life
5. Halachic insights into brain death

Part II: Decisions affecting life
6. Risk as a factor in medical decisions
      -Short term life vs. long term life
      -Short term life vs. extended short term life
7. Endangering life to improve quality of life
8. Negligence as a factor in pikuach nefesh

Part III: The unborn child
9. The fetus in Jewish law
10. Treatment of an endangered fetus on the Sabbath
      -Physical aspects of pikuach nefesh
      -Spiritual aspects of pikuach nefesh
11. The Halachic status of an embryo in-vivo & in-vitro

Part IV: Transplantation and experimentation
12. Transplants from live donors
13. Medical experimentation on humans, selling of organs and cosmetic surgery

Part V: Protecting one's health
14. The personal obligation to protect one's health
15. Halachic perspectives on smoking

Part VI: Medical professionals
16. Obligations of physicians regarding treatment and seeking further medical advice
17. The medical accountability of physicians
18. Responsibility and accountability of nurses

Part VII: Electricity and the Shabbath
19. An analysis of the physics of the electric motor according to classic Torah concepts

Price and Ordering Information
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Non-members' price: $30 including shipping

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Jerusalem Center for Research - Medicine and Halacha, P. O. Box 57058, Jerusalem, Israel
Phone and Fax: 972-2-538-3558, E-mail: info@j-c-r.org