Narratives and Jewish Bioethics

Name: Narratives and Jewish Bioethics
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ISBN: 9781137026163

ISBN-10: 1137026162

ISBN-13: 9781137026163

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jonathan K. Crane

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Rabbi Chananya ben Teradyon was burned alive by the Romans around 1800 years ago, and according to contemporary Jewish bioethicists this story supports condoning or condemning euthanasia. This work investigates this bioethical practice of invoking a(n ancient) narrative to make a (modern) norm. It is complicated because there are multiple versions of Chananya's demise in the Judaic textual tradition, and these stories are both content-wise ambiguous and normatively ambivalent. Extracting or establishing a norm based on this narrative is therefore methodologically, philosophically and bioethically fraught. Yet insofar as Jewish bioethicsts continue to look to the Judaic textual tradition for…

Book details

List price: $119.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 3/20/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 202
Size: 5.70" wide x 11.08" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 8.360
Language: English



Series Editor's Preface


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations



Genesis of Jewish Bioethics



Narratives, Norms, and Deadly Complications



A Dying Story: Told and Retold



Living to Die: Theo-Political Interpretations



Dying to Die: Bioethical Interpretations



Salvaging Stories in and for Jewish Bioethics


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Source Index