This book is about bioethical dilemmas in a large public children's ward. It goes beyond the usual work in secular bioethics by turning to the classic texts of Jewish thought. The book constructs a discussion between and among several disciplines, clinical medicine, Jewish philosophy, and feminist thought.

Laurie Zoloth is the Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics and Senior Advisor to the Provost for Social Ethics, at the University of Chicago and former Dean of the Divinity School. She was President of the American Academy of Religion and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and Vice President of the Society for Jewish Ethics. She has published many books on bioethics and Jewish thought. She is currently a member of the Engineering Biology Research Consortium Board of Advisors, the NASA National Bioethics Committee, and the Ethics Advisory Board of the American Heart Association.

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction: Writing a Jewish Bioethics


• Chapter 1: The Duty of Repair in a Broken World


• Chapter 2: Thinking as Interrupted Conversation


• Chapter 3: Suffering and its Uselessness


• Chapter 4: Seeing the Doubting Judge


• Chapter 5: How to be Good


• Chapter 6: In Case


• Chapter 7: Trading in Futures


• Chapter 8: The Full Onus of Mercy


• Chapter 9: Duty Bound


• Chapter 10: Making the Things of the World


• Chapter 11: Ordinary Talk about Ordinary Trouble


• Conclusion