Second Texts and Second Opinions: Essays Towards a Jewish Bioethics

by Laurie Zoloth

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197632130
• ISBN13: 9780197632130
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages