Rabbi Bleich is one of the world's foremost authorities on the subject of Jewish perspectives on the ethical questions which arise in the wake of modern medical technology. In these essays, which are intended for all who are concerned with these issues, Rabbi Bleich covers such questions as the care of the terminally ill, including the vexing issue of whether the family may decide to withhold information from the person who is terminally ill, artificial insemination, genetic engineering the moral status (...) of the handicapped. AIDS, and immoral medical experimentation. (shrink)

Book reviewed in this article: Jewish Bioethics. Edited by Fred Rosner and J. David Bleich.