Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel
Socio-legal, Political, and Empirical Analysis

A collection of studies in bioethics and society that goes beyond conventional medical ethics and suggests political, socio-legal, and empirical analysis.

Hagai Boas (Edited by), Yael Hashiloni-Dolev (Edited by), Nadav Davidovitch (Edited by), Dani Filc (Edited by), Shai J. Lavi (Edited by)

9781108714105, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 June 2019

332 pages, 1 b/w illus. 2 tables
23 x 15.3 x 2 cm, 0.5 kg

'A must-read for any scholar of bioethics, medical sociology, and STS who wants to understand the discourse of bioethics and how this discourse is embedded in national, historical, and cultural contexts. This book is an important contribution to the self-reflection of bioethics as a discipline.' Silke Schicktanz, University of Göttingen, and author of Comparative Empirical Bioethics: Dilemmas of Genetic Testing and Euthanasia in Israel and Germany

Although the 'Israeli case' of bioethics has been well documented, this book offers a novel understanding of Israeli bioethics that is a milestone in the comparative literature of bioethics. Bringing together a range of experts, the book's interdisciplinary structure employs a contemporary, sociopolitical-oriented approach to bioethics issues, with an emphasis on empirical analysis, that will appeal not only to scholars of bioethics, but also to students of law, medicine, humanities, and social sciences around the world. Its focus on the development of bioethics in Israel makes it especially relevant to scholars of Israeli society - both in and out of Israel - as well as medical practitioners and health policymakers in Israel.

Introduction: bioethics in Israel Hagai Boas, Nadav Davidovitch, Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, Dani Filc and Shai J. Lavi
Part I. Bioethics as Biopolitics: 1. Biosecuritization of public health preparedness in Israel and Palestine: from traditional bioethics to public health ethics Nadav Davidovitch and Benjamin Langer
2. Republican bioethics Dani Flic
3. From bioethics to biopolitics in recent Israeli legislation about force-feeding hunger-striking inmates Yoav Kenny
4. A cognitive dissonant health system: can we combat racism without admitting it exists? Hadas Ziv
5. Nothing about us without us: a disability challenge to bioethics Sagit Mor
Part II. Familialism and Reproduction: 6. The effect of Jewish-Israeli family ideology on policy regarding reproductive technologies Yael Hashiloni-Dolev
7. 'Quiet, dependent, nice and loyal: surrogacy agencies discourse of international surrogacy Hedva Eyal and Adi Moreno
8. Palestinian fertility in Israeli sphere Himmat Zu'bi
9. Childbirth in Israel: home birth and newborn screening Margherita Brusa and Yechiel Bar Ilan
10. 'Life after death': the Israeli approach to posthumous reproduction Vardit Ravitsky and Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen
Part III. Is There an Israeli Exception?: 11. Reckless or pioneering? Public health genetics services in Israel Aviad E. Raz
12. The end-of-life decision-making process in Israel: bioethics, law and the practice of doctors Roy Gilbar and Nili Karako-Eyal
13. Organ donation, brain death and the limits of liberal bioethics Hagai Boas and Shai J. Lavi
14. Towards an Israeli medical ethics Michael Weingarten
15. Tilting the frame: Israeli suicide as an alternative to suicide in Israel Haim Hazan and Raquel Romberg.

Subject Areas: Bio-ethics [PSAD], Medical ethics & professional conduct [MBDC], Medical & healthcare law [LNTM], Family law [LNM], International human rights law [LBBR], Comparative law [LAM], Human rights [JPVH], Comparative politics [JPB], Judaism [HRJ]