9781316671986

1316671984

9781107159846

1107159849

Includes index.

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Introduction : bioethics in Israel / Hagai Boas, Nadav Davidovitch, Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, Dani Filc and Shai Lavi

Part I. Bioethics as biopolitics. Biosecuritization of public health preparedness in Israel and Palestine : from traditional bioethics to public health ethics / Nadav Davidovitch and Benjamin Langer

Republican bioethics / Dani Filc

Force and feeding : from bioethics to biopolitics in recent Israeli legislation

About force-feeding hunger-striking inmates / Yoav Kenny

A cognitive dissonant health system : can we combat racism without admitting it exists? / Hadas Ziv

Nothing about us without us : a disability challenge to bioethics / Sagit Mor

Part II. Familialism and reproduction

The effect of Jewish-Israeli family ideology on policy regarding reproductive technologies / Yael Hashiloni-Dolev

"Quiet, dependent, nice and loyal" : surrogacy agencies discourse of international surrogacy / Hedva Eyal and Adi Moreno

Palestinian fertility in Israeli sphere / Himmat Zu'bi

Childbirth in Israel : home birth and newborn screening / Margherita Brusa and Yechiel Bar Ilan

'Life after death' : the Israeli approach to posthumous reproduction / Vardit Ravitsky and Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen

Part III. Is there an Israeli exceptionalism?

Reckless or pioneering? Public health genetics services in Israel / Aviad E. Raz

The end-of-life decision-making process in Israel : bioethics, law and the practice of doctors / Roy Gilbar and Nili Karako-Eyal

Organ donation, brain death and the limits of liberal bioethics / Hagai Boas and Shai Lavi

Towards an Israeli medical ethics / Michael Weingarten

Tilting the frame : Israeli suicide as an alternative to suicide in Israel / Haim Hazan and Raquel Romberg.

Bioethics > Israel.

Bioethics > Government policy > Israel.

Bioethics > Law and legislation > Israel.

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