Israel: Bioethics in a Jewish-democratic state

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 247-255

  Gross, Michael L ^a   Ravitsky, Vardit ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC PATIENT; CONSCIOUSNESS; COURT; CRIMINAL LAW; DEATH; ETHICS; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE THERAPY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INFORMED CONSENT; JEW; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NIDATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PARENTHOOD; PATIENT CARE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POPULATION GENETICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RELIGION; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SUICIDE; SURVIVAL; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TERRORISM;

EID: 0037780477     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180103123055     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. Israel Patients Rights Act, SH 5756, 327 (1996).
2. Bibas v. The Attorney General of Israel, HP 528/96 (1997); Idit Meir v. The Attorney General of Israel, HP 401/98 (1998).
3. Bibas v. The Attorney General of Israel, HP 528/96 (1997); Idit Meir v. The Attorney General of Israel, HP 401/98 (1998).
4. The Public Committee for Issues Related to Patients at the End of Life. Proposed Law: The Patient at the End of Life. Jerusalem: The Public Committee for Issues Related to Patients at the End of Life; 2002:paragraphs 12, 13.
5. Barber v. The Superior Court of Los Angeles County, 147 Cal. App. 3d 1006 (1983).
6. Prohibition of Genetic Intervention (Human Cloning and Genetic Manipulation of Reproductive Cells) Law, SH 1697 (1999), p. 47.
7. Bioethics Advisory Committee of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Report on the Use of Embryonic Stem Cells for Therapeutic Research. 2001. Available at: http://stwww.weizmann.ac.il/bioethics/index-e.html.
8. The committee could find no definitive Protestant position inasmuch as "it is part of the Protestant ethos that moral questions are determined by the individual conscience and, as such, Protestant theology is pluralistic and admits of no single source of authority on questions of stem cell technology and fetal development." See note 6, Bioethics Advisory Committee of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 2001.
9. UNESCO. Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights. 1997. Article 11: "Practices which are contrary to human dignity, such as reproductive cloning of human beings, shall not be permitted."
10. Fogiel-Bijaoui S. Families in Israel. In: Izraeli DN, Friedman A, Dahan-Kalev H, Fogiel-Bijaoui S, Herzog H, Hasan M, Naveh H, eds. Sex Gender Politics: Women in Israel. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad; 1999:107-66. (In Hebrew.)
11. There are 2.98 children born per woman, according to: Central Bureau of Statistics. Statistical Abstract of Israel 2000, No. 51.
12. According to data from the Israeli Ministry of Health, there are 1,800 cycles per million population, compared to 240 in the United States and 416 in the United Kingdom.
13. Nakhmani v. Nakhmani, FH 2401/95 50(4) P.D.661 (1995). (In Hebrew.)
14. In accordance with U.S. cases such as: Davis v. Davis, 842 S.W. 2d 588 (1992); Kass v. Kass, 91 N.Y. 2d 554 (1998). Here the courts ruled that any use of frozen embryos requires the consent of both parties.
15. In accordance with U.S. cases such as: Davis v. Davis, 842 S.W. 2d 588 (1992); Kass v. Kass, 91 N.Y. 2d 554 (1998). Here the courts ruled that any use of frozen embryos requires the consent of both parties.
16. Surrogate Mother Agreements (Approval of the Agreement and Status of the Child) Law, SH 1577 (1996), p. 176.
17. Shalev C, Remenick L. Where is the child? Ha'aretz, Independence Day Supplement 2000 May 9.
18. B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. No Way Out: Medical Implications of Israel's Siege Policy. Jerusalem: B'Tselem; 2001:5.
19. Physicians for Human Rights. Medicine Under Attack: Critical Damage Inflicted on Medical Services in the Occupied Territories: An Interim Report. Jerusalem: Physicians for Human Rights; 2002 Apr 4. (Information about Physicians for Human Rights, Jerusalem, is available at: http://www.phr.org.il); B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. Impeding Medical Treatment and Firing at Ambulances by IDF Soldiers in the Occupied Territories. Jerusalem: B'Tselem; 2002. (Information about B'Tselem is available at: http://www.btselem.org.)
20. Physicians for Human Rights. Medicine Under Attack: Critical Damage Inflicted on Medical Services in the Occupied Territories: An Interim Report. Jerusalem: Physicians for Human Rights; 2002 Apr 4. (Information about Physicians for Human Rights, Jerusalem, is available at: http://www.phr.org.il); B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. Impeding Medical Treatment and Firing at Ambulances by IDF Soldiers in the Occupied Territories. Jerusalem: B'Tselem; 2002. (Information about B'Tselem is available at: http://www.btselem.org.)
21. See note 17, B'Tselem 2002:18.