How to Draw Guidance from a Heritage: Jewish Approaches to Mortal Choices
David H. Ellenson
1990
The progress made by medical science over the last half century has been astounding. In the area of therapeutic medicine alone, developments have been nothing short of miraculous. […] Life-support systems are now capable of maintaining the respiratory and circulatory functions of terminally ill patients indefinitely, while the invention of the…
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