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Jewish Ethics and the Care of End-Of-Life Patients: A Collection of Rabbinical, Bioethical, Philosophical, and Juristic Opinions »

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Authors: Peter Hurwitz (Editor), Jacques Picard, Avraham Steinberg, Jacques Picard (Editor), Avraham Steinberg
ISBN-13: 9780881259216, ISBN-10: 0881259217
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Date Published: May 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Peter Hurwitz

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Table of Contents

Jewish religious law13
Assisted death31
Treatment of the terminally ill57
"Some" reflections on Jewish tradition and the end-of-life patient75
A law proposal in Israel regarding the patient at the end of life99
Dying the dignity of a Jewish-democratic state105
The Jewish physician and end-of-life decisions119
Implementing empathy at the end of life131
Ethics and reality149
Assisted death?163
Terminal care of children177
The report of the public committee and matters concerning the terminally ill patient207
Draft law : the terminally ill patient, 5762-2002215

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