Modern Medicine and Jewish Values Review
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Religious traditions offer vital yet diverse frameworks for navigating modern medical ethics - none more distinctively than Judaism, with its dual emphasis on the sanctity of life and compassionate flexibility in individual cases. Through analysis of four major scholarly works, this review explores how Jewish values uniquely address life-and-death decisions in contemporary healthcare. The comparative examination evaluates "Caring and Curing," which contextualizes medical thought across Western religious traditions; David M. Feldman's philosophical framework in "Health and Medicine in the Jewish Tradition"; the multi-scholar perspectives in Levi Meier's "Jewish Values in Bioethics"; and Cytron and Schwartz's expanded treatment of triage, abortion, and euthanasia in "When Life Is in the Balance." The analysis reveals that moral prescriptions in medical contexts stem fundamentally from broader worldviews, with Jewish tradition emphasizing divine partnership and nuanced consideration of circumstances. These works collectively demonstrate how religious frameworks must evolve to address modern medical challenges while maintaining their core principles - with Jewish ethics offering both steadfast guidance and humanitarian adaptability in confronting complex bioethical dilemmas.

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Published 1988
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Elliot Dorff