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Second Texts and Second Opinions - Essays Towards a Jewish Bioethics (Paperback)
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Second Texts and Second Opinions - Essays Towards a Jewish Bioethics (Paperback)
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This book takes as its subject the intensely private discussions
that arise when ordinary people confront life and death choices and
struggle with decisions in a world of medical and scientific
complexity. Laurie Zoloth began her work in bioethics in a large
public California hospital system, where she was part of a group
tasked with the creation of an ethics committee in every hospital
in the system, that would hear hundreds of cases every year,
including pediatric cases from the hospital's intensive care,
neonatal intensive care, burn, and oncology units. The book
explores the dilemmas presented in these cases and reflects on the
competing, often incommensurate moral appeals offered by the
participants. It then analyzes the cases against and with similar
concepts within Jewish thought, using rabbinic texts to make
legible the factors at play as one makes ethical judgments. This
philosophical position is feminist as it considers and at times
advocates for the inclusion of family and community in the
rationale of the clinical setting. Intertwined with legal
statements in the Talmud are aggadot, or midrashic texts, literary
narratives used to argue a point, or to complicate a point, or to
deepen the meaning of the communal discourse, adding history, case
studies, or fictive tales to the discussion. Zoloth argues that
these texts can be usefully applied to problems in bioethics. She
develops the case for a textual turn that is fully imagined and
enriched by the many possible re-interpretations of narrative:
biblical, rabbinic, medieval, modern, and post-modern.
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