Academy - Ethics of Healing (2 CPD Points available)

Join the Academy and Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Glicksberg in partnership with
The doctor is seen as a partner of G-d in
the world, a harbinger of hope in the face
of despair, someone working to mend the
breaches in the world, an agent of
tikkun olam in its broadest applications.
But healing and repairing also raise ethical
questions which test our moral fi bre, vision
and goals. Some of the world’s most iconic
doctors were Jews who not only valued their
contribution to medicine but were also acutely
aware of the ethical challenges posed.
Therefore Jewish thought has an unbroken
chain of refl ection on Medical Ethics stretching
back thousands of years and reaching
forward to shed light on the most modern of
therapeutic conundrums.

Waverley Shul on an odyssey into the world of biomedical ethics in
Judaism. The course, originally delivered at Bar Ilan University, will cover,
amongst other topics: the morals of monetary gain from the sale of
organs, triage priorities, organ transplants and determining the moment
of death according to Jewish Law, guidelines for disconnection from life
support, the ethics of praying for a sick person to die and palliative care.
This course will earn 2 CPD points.