Duty and Healing: Foundations of a Jewish Bioethic"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. |
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 31 |
The Model of Rights | 35 |
The Model of Expert Counselor | 39 |
The Model of Duty | 43 |
Some Differences Between the Models | 48 |
Morality Within Relationships | 52 |
SECTION 1 | 67 |
Introduction | 69 |
The Reasonable Caretaker | 175 |
SECTION 3 | 191 |
Introduction | 193 |
The Minima | 200 |
Competence as Capability and as Authorization | 213 |
The Need for Protection | 228 |
Competency Consent to Treatment and Other Social Roles | 241 |
SECTION 4 | 253 |
The Standard View | 75 |
Problems with the Standard View | 81 |
Families as Proxies in the Standard View | 89 |
A Family Duty | 97 |
Respectful Service and Reverent Obedience | 101 |
Preventing Pain and Indignity | 117 |
The Priority of Duty | 127 |
Introduction | 139 |
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 |
Introduction | 255 |
Risking Life to Lengthen Life | 262 |
Risking Pain and Life for Quality of Life | 279 |
The Threshold of Risk Gd Protects Fools | 300 |
Definition and Presentation | 309 |
Summarizing Halakhic Principles of Personal Medical Decision Making | 319 |
Next Steps in Healing and Duty | 329 |
Sources of Jewish Law | 333 |
Glossary | 334 |
336 | |
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Duty and Healing: Foundations of a Jewish Bioethic Benjamin Freedman,Charles Weijer Limited preview - 1999 |
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