Authors: Benjam Freedman, Charles Weijer
ISBN-13: 9780415921794, ISBN-10: 0415921791
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: June 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Duty and Healing positions ethical issues commonly encountered in clinical situations within Jewish law. The concept of duty is significant in exploring bioethical issues, and this book presents an authentic and non-parochial Jewish approach to bioethics, while it includes critiques of both current secular and Jewish literatures.
Among the issues the book explores are the role of family in medical decision-making, the question of informed consent as a personal religious duty, and the responsibilities of caretakers. The exploration of contemporary ethical problems in healthcare through the lens of traditional sources in Jewish law is an indispensable guide of moral knowledge.
The Book | 1 | |
The Author | 4 | |
Debts of Gratitude | 9 | |
The Purposes of this Book | 13 | |
Transliteration | 24 | |
Sources: Translation and Citation | 25 | |
Acknowledgments | 28 | |
Prologue: Duty and Clinical Ethics Consultations from a Jewish Viewpoint | ||
The Model of Rights | 35 | |
The Model of Expert Counselor | 39 | |
The Model of Duty | 43 | |
The Consultation Process: Some Differences Between the Models | 48 | |
Judaism and Consultations: Morality Within Relationships | 52 | |
Sect. 1 | Family: The Role of the Family in Medical Decision Making for Incompetent Persons | |
A Proper Family Role: The Standard View | 75 | |
Problems with the Standard View | 81 | |
Families as Proxies in the Standard View | 89 | |
A Family Duty | 97 | |
Judaism on Duties of Children to Parents: Respectful Service and Reverent Obedience | 101 | |
Duties of Children: Preventing Pain and Indignity | 117 | |
The Priority of Duty | 127 | |
Sect. 2 | Consent: "The Reasonable Caretaker" and the Obligation to Consent | |
The Duty to Seek Medical Treatment | 142 | |
The Duty to Heal | 147 | |
The Doctrine of Informed Consent in Jewish Sources | 152 | |
The Nature of Medical Choice and Its Implications for Consent | 163 | |
An Alternative Construction: The Reasonable Caretaker | 175 | |
Sect. 3 | Competency: Jewish Sources and the General Theory of Competency | |
Competence and Communication of Choice: The Minima | 200 | |
Competence and Roles: Competence as Capability and as Authorization | 213 | |
Defining Mental Illness Within a Social Context: The Need for Protection | 228 | |
Competency, Consent to Treatment, and Other Social Roles | 241 | |
Sect. 4 | Risk: Principles of Judgment in Health Care Decisions | |
Allowable Risks 1: Risking Life to Lengthen Life | 262 | |
Allowable Risks 2: Risking Pain and Life for Quality of Life | 279 | |
Allowable Risks 3: The Threshold of Risk: "G-d Protects Fools" | 300 | |
Subjective Aspects of Risk: Definition and Presentation | 309 | |
Conclusion: Summarizing Halakhic Principles of Personal Medical Decision Making | 319 | |
Afterword: Next Steps in Healing and Duty | 329 | |
Sources of Jewish Law | 333 | |
Glossary | 334 | |
Index | 336 |