Second texts and second opinions : essays towards a Jewish bioethics / Laurie Zoloth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zoloth, Laurie, author.

Series:

Oxford Academic

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioethics--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Bioethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

First Edition

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

This is a book about writing and thinking about bioethics of a particular sort, a feminism of a particular sort, and a Jewish philosophy of a particular sort. It is about all of these things-feminist thought, Judaism, and the practice of bioethics-as I have written about them in a distinctive moment in the field and from the moral location from which I worked, which was as an academic in the disciplines of Jewish Studies and moral philosophy who also worked as a clinical ethicist in a large public hospital. These are cases of children and families facing illness and death within the clinical world, a world of scarcity, desperation, and grace; and the choices they make within that world. It explores the meaning of these choices and reflects on why the dilemmas are so important in our society. The book considers the moral gesture that is medicine and the role of the ethicist as she comes to learn her practice. This is a book about the memory and meaning, re-evaluated and considered in light of the traditional texts of Jewish thought.

Contents:

Table of Contents: Acknowledgments - Introduction: Writing a Jewish Bioethics - 1. The Duty of Repair: Bioethics in a Broken World - 2. Thinking as Interrupted Conversation - 3. Suffering and Its Uselessness - 4. Seeing the Doubting Judge - 5. How to Be Good - 6. In Case - 7. Trading in Futures - 8. The Full Onus of Mercy - 9. Duty Bound - 10. Making the Things of the World - 11. Ordinary Talk about Ordinary Trouble: Witnessing - Conclusion: The Work of Memory as a Second Text - Notes - Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Zoloth, Laurie Second Texts and Second Opinions

ISBN:

0-19-763217-3

0-19-763215-7