A dialogue between contemporary, Western moral philosophy and the tradition of Legal/Moral Descourse (Halakha).

The last several years have seen a sharpening of debate in the United States regarding the problem of steadily increasing medical expenditures, as well as infla

During the last thirty years, biophysicist and philosopher Henri Atlan has been a major voice in contemporary European philosophical and bio-ethical debates. In

For thousands of years the Jewish tradition has been a source of moral guidance, for Jews and non-Jews alike. As the essays in this volume show, the theologians

Presents the discourse in Jewish law and rabbinic literature on bioethical issues, highlighting practical problems in their socio-historical contexts.