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• Title:The sanctity of human life / David Novak.
  
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• Author/Creator:Novak, David, 1941-
  
• Published/Created:Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W61 .N68 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical ethics--Religious aspects--Judaism.
  Embryonic stem cells--Research--Religious aspects--Judaism.
  National health services--Religious aspects--Judaism.
  Assisted suicide--Religious aspects--Judaism.
  
• Medical Subjects: Judaism.
  Philosophy, Medical.
  Ethics, Medical.
  Life.
  Religion and Medicine.
  
• Description:xvi, 186 p. ; 23 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781589011762 (cloth : alk. paper)
  1589011767 (cloth : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Ch. 1. On the use of embryonic stem cells
  Normative questions and normative contexts
  Philosophy, politics, and theology and their interrelations
  status of the embryo in current Jewish discussion
  Natural law in Judaism
  Three rabbinic texts pertaining to abortion
  embryo before and after the fortieth day of gestation
  Law and scientific evidence
  beginning of human life
  Permission or obligation?
  Political realities
  Ch. 2. Jewish argument for socialized medicine
  Universal health care : Canada and the United States
  Moral and theological problems with the practice medicine
  Medicine as a sacred profession
  Medicine as a calling
  Nonsectarian medicine
  Ch. 3. Physician-assisted suicide
  Theology, philosophy, and politics
  Who is guilty in physician-assisted suicide?
  physician kills the patient
  physician orders the patient killed
  physician orders the patient to commit suicide
  physician prepares the patient for suicide
  Suicide as a reflexive act
  Suicide as personal responsibility
  Public philosophy in a secular society
  Suicide : public and private
  Society's claims on the individual person
  Struggling against the politics of death.