TAL 536 Jewish Law and Bioethics
This course will introduce you to the traditional halakhic discourse on issues such as the nature of medical practice in the Jewish tradition, the right to die, fertility technologies, genetic engineering, criteria for determining death, abortion, setting priorities in the allocation of medical care, and more. You will be expected to prepare the relevant Talmudic and halakhic texts, along with assigned secondary literature, for class discussion and to submit a final written project.