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Second Texts and Second Opinions - Essays Towards a Jewish Bioethics (Paperback) Loot Price: R956
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Second Texts and Second Opinions - Essays Towards a Jewish Bioethics (Paperback): Laurie Zoloth

Second Texts and Second Opinions - Essays Towards a Jewish Bioethics (Paperback)

Laurie Zoloth

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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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2022
Authors: Laurie Zoloth (Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics and Senior Advisor to the Provost for Social Ethics)
Dimensions: 235 x 157 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-763214-7
Categories: Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Bio-ethics
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
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LSN: 0-19-763214-9
Barcode: 9780197632147

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