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Jews in Medicine

A guide outlining the history of Jews in medicine, bio-medical ethics and the history of medicine, science and technology.

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Jews and Medicine

Explore this LibGuide for research insights into Jews and the medical arena.

Bibliography of Jewish Medical Ethics: Halakhic Issues Gathered by DBL as per request at LCW ca. 2010

Bibliography Jewish Medical Ethics: Halakhic Perspectives

Medicine On Shabbat: Selected Mikorot

5% of Sources gathered in 2014 at LCW as per request
This abridged mikorot packet includes 5% of the following sources from a larger more comprehensive 36 sources sheet: Shulchan Arukh, HaRav Eliezer Melamed Pininei Halakhah Shabat; Nishmat Avraham Laws of the sick on Shabat; BT Beitza 30a

How to Research Jewish Medical Ethics: first steps; by David B Levy

Researching Jewish Medical Ethics by David B Levy
The method of analogizing old case law situations to contemporary medical halakhah serves a strategy to find relevant case examples from the past that have applications to todays medical advances

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