This anthology of original essays by leading thinkers in the field gathers together in one place voices from diverse theological and practical commitments. Unlike other publications on Jewish bioethics, it adopts an explicitly pluralistic stance. The book addresses tension between the "quality of life" and the "sanctity of life" issues, and will be of interest to lay readers, undergraduate students of bioethics, and rabbis.
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This book thoughtfully addresses a number of hot-button issues. Is euthanasia ever permissible? How should we make decisions on behalf of an incapacitated patient? When is abortion a valid ethical choice? And ultimately, is it only the individual patient who is responsible for maintaining health, or should society assume some of the burden?
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Behoref Hayamim: In the Winter of Life: A Values-Based Jewish Guide for Decision-Making at the End of Life
Edited by David Teutsch

An anthology of articles addressing the common medical questions that families face at the end of life, and offering insights into what the spirit needs at such times.
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Matters of Life and Death: A Jewish Approach to Modern Medical Ethics
By Elliot Dorff

In this book, Dorff, a Conservative Jew who has participated in the Ethics Committee of the UCLA Medical Center, argues that "moral values [are] an integral part of the Jewish legal process by which contemporary decisions should be made. Though this and other of Dorff's positions are likely to be controversial within and without Judaism, his book is a thorough introduction to Jewish medical ethics.
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Jewish Medical Directives - The Living Will
The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards
The Rabbinical Assembly

These directives are to be used to guide medical treatment and gain a sense of Jewish teachings concerning medical decisions, and give you the opportunity to think about some of the choices people must make about their health care.
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Life & Death Responsibilities in Jewish Biomedical Ethics
Aaron L. Mackler, Editor

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A Time To Prepare: A Practical Guide for Individuals and Families in Determining One's Wishes for Extraordinary Medical Treatment and Financial Arrangements
Edited by Rabbi Richard F. Address, DMin, URJ Press, 1994

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The Academic Coalition for Jewish Bioethics
www.Jewishethics.org

The Academic Coalition for Jewish Bioethics seeks to engage the Jewish community in considering biomedical decisions. While recognizing that any coherent Jewish bioethics rests on the legacy of our inherited norms, values, and experience, the Coalition advocates the development of a variety of methodologies that bring clarity and authenticityto difficult life choices. The ACJB strives to broaden and deepen biomedical conversation in Jewish life and to create models of cooperation
across the spectrum of Jewish practice.

University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics
http://www.bioethics.upenn.edu/

The Center's mission is to advance scholarly and public understanding of ethical, legal, social and public policy issues in health care. Center faculty carry appointments in departments of the University of Pennsylvania, including philosophy, medicine, nursing, law, social science, public policy, the Wharton School, communications, andthe allied health professions. Faculty teach courses and seminars in the Medical School, and teach bioethics in other professional schools at Penn and in various graduate departments of the University.

The Hastings Center
www.thehastingscenter.org

The Hastings Center is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit bioethics research institute founded in 1969 to explore fundamental and emerging questions in health care, biotechnology, and the environment.

Partial Guide to Jewish Bioethics Concerns
Rabbi William Cutter
March 2008
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Ten Thoughts on Jewish Bioethics and Public Policy
Rabbi Peter S. Knobel
Rabbi Peter Knobel is a Kalsman Partner and has been the senior rabbi of Temple Beth Emet, the Free Synagogue, in Evanston, Illinois since 1980. He shared Ten Thoughts on Jewish Bioethics and Public Policy in an address delivered at the first Kalsman Institute Partner Gathering at the Brandeis-Bardin Institute in March 2001.
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• End of Life matters
• Medical Directives
• Genetic Science
• Organ Donation
• Cloning

Infertility and Assisted ReproductionComplete Sets or Individual Guides are
available at: http://urj.org/jfc/bioethics/studyguides/ or by calling (212) 650-4294.