Author Description

This book of essays illustrates many aspects of Jewish medical ethics at the end of life. Written by experts in their various fields, the topics reveal traditional and contemporary Jewish attitudes from medical, ethical, historic and academic perspectives. The editors are medical historians with a special interest in Jews and medicine, so the scope of the book includes historic as well as halakhic topics, and the interplay between the ethical and historic disciplines, covering many eras and themes, shows concern for contemporary clinical issues.