Medical Beliefs In Judaism

Jewish Health & Healing Practices | My Jewish Learning

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Jews’ close connection to healing, both as patients and physicians, is ancient and rooted in both theology and history. In many religions in ancient times, and still in some today, the idea of medical treatment was anathema, even heresy. Disease, accident and deformity …

Jewish medical ethics and end-of-life care - PubMed

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Jewish medical ethics as derived from Jewish law, has definitions for the four cardinal values of secular medical ethics: autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice, with …

Healing and Medicine: Healing and Medicine in Judaism

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The premises of Jewish medical ethics are that life is sacred and that all actions must be in accordance with morality in the Talmudic tradition. Ethicists distinguish the Jewish …

Medical Ethics in Judaism - Jewish Virtual Library

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Medical Issues in Jewish Law. Abortion; Assisted Reproduction and Judaism; Autopsy; The Brain Death Controversy; The Breast Cancer Genes; Cloning People and …

Medicine, Healing and the Jewish Tradition | My Jewish …

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Medicine - Jewish Virtual Library

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Jews have contributed to medicine both by the creation of new medical concepts and by the transmission of medical knowledge. It was through the medieval Jewish physician-translators that the medical knowledge of the East and much of ancient Greek medical lore was preserved and transmitted to the West.

Caring For A Jewish Patient - A Guide For Medical Professionals

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Judaism is one of the main religions of the world, based on the Torah, which Jews believe was given to Moses by God on Mount Sinai. The Torah (The Five Books of Moses – …

Jewish Medical Ethics - Jewish Visiting

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Jewish Medical Ethics. Almost all forms of required medical treatment are permitted, and indeed encouraged in Jewish law, as the guiding principle in Judaism’s …

Judaism - Basic beliefs and doctrines | Britannica

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At the centre of this liturgical formulation of belief is the concept of divine singularity and uniqueness. In its original setting, it may have served as the theological statement of the …

Jewish beliefs, values, and practices: implications for ... - PubMed

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1Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. PMID: 9447069. Abstract. Providing culturally sensitive nursing care for the Jewish patient is a challenge for the non-Jewish nurse. Understanding the major values, ethics, and practices of Judaism that have relevance to nursing and medical care will give the advanced practice nurse the ability to …