Second Texts and Second Opinions - Laurie Zoloth

Second Texts and Second Opinions

Essays Towards a Jewish Bioethics

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Buch | Softcover
312 Seiten
2022
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-763214-7 (ISBN)
34,90 inkl. MwSt
This book is about bioethical dilemmas in a large public children's ward. It goes beyond the usual work in secular bioethics by turning to the classic texts of Jewish thought. The book constructs a discussion between and among several disciplines, clinical medicine, Jewish philosophy, and feminist thought.
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, including pediatric cases from the hospital's intensive care, neonatal intensive care, burn, and oncology units.

The book explores the dilemmas presented in these cases and reflects on the competing, often incommensurate moral appeals offered by the participants. It then analyzes the cases against and with similar concepts within Jewish thought, using rabbinic texts to make legible the factors at play as one makes ethical judgments. This philosophical position is feminist as it considers and at times advocates for the inclusion of family and community in the rationale of the clinical setting. Intertwined with legal statements in the Talmud are aggadot, or midrashic texts, literary narratives used to argue a point, or to complicate a point, or to deepen the meaning of the communal discourse, adding history, case studies, or fictive tales to the discussion. Zoloth argues that these texts can be usefully applied to problems in bioethics. She develops the case for a textual turn that is fully imagined and enriched by the many possible re-interpretations of narrative: biblical, rabbinic, medieval, modern, and post-modern.

Laurie Zoloth is the Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics and Senior Advisor to the Provost for Social Ethics, at the University of Chicago and former Dean of the Divinity School. She was President of the American Academy of Religion and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and Vice President of the Society for Jewish Ethics. She has published many books on bioethics and Jewish thought. She is currently a member of the Engineering Biology Research Consortium Board of Advisors, the NASA National Bioethics Committee, and the Ethics Advisory Board of the American Heart Association.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Writing a Jewish Bioethics

Chapter 1: The Duty of Repair in a Broken World

Chapter 2: Thinking as Interrupted Conversation

Chapter 3: Suffering and its Uselessness

Chapter 4: Seeing the Doubting Judge

Chapter 5: How to be Good

Chapter 6: In Case

Chapter 7: Trading in Futures

Chapter 8: The Full Onus of Mercy

Chapter 9: Duty Bound

Chapter 10: Making the Things of the World

Chapter 11: Ordinary Talk about Ordinary Trouble

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 237 x 156 mm
Gewicht 463 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Naturwissenschaften Biologie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Makroökonomie
ISBN-10 0-19-763214-9 / 0197632149
ISBN-13 978-0-19-763214-7 / 9780197632147
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