A new session of the Rohr Jewish Learning Initiative (JLI) focusing on medical ethics got under way this week with the backing of the Royal College of Physicians, the Bar Standards Agency and the Law Society (in cooperation UK Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists).
Medicine and Morals examines contemporary case studies and compares secular and Jewish approaches as a means of developing an understanding of medical and legal ethical dilemmas. Solicitors, barristers and medical professionals enrolled on the course will be eligible for Continuing Professional Development credit.
“We are very excited about these developments which we feel speak for the high standards of the course,” said Rabbi Eli Pink, education director at Lubavitch Centre in Leeds where the course began this weeks
The course is also taking place in Hendon and Edgware, starting in early November, under the direction of Rabbi Dovid Katz and Rabbi Yaron Jacobs.
“As medicine advances and life expectancy increases, almost all of us will encounter an ethical dilemma in dealing with our own health or that of a loved one,” said Rabbi Zalman Abraham of the JLI’s Brooklyn headquarters. “But Jewish law creatively draws analogies with ancient paradigms to provide guidance through the maze of medical decision-making.”
The six lessons will include Choosing Life: The Obligation to Seek Healing; Flesh of My Flesh: Organ Transplants in Jewish Law; Rolling the Dice: Risky and Experimental Treatments; New Beginnings: The Ethics of Reproductive Technologies; With You In Mind: Ethical Treatment of the Mentally Disabled; Secret Code: Genetics and the Ethics of Patient Confidentiality.
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