Seven years after my post in Stockholm on the question on who has the right to decide on life or death, Charlie Gard’s case has made the headlines, at least here in Great Britain. Charlie suffers from mitochondrial depletion syndrome which affects the cells’ ability to generate energy. Specialists at the hospital say he has…
Category: Ethics
The God particle
the God particle alreay is described in the Zohar and by the Jwewish sage Nachmanides
Who may operate?
Fresh from the news (Echo 23.05.2010 9.45). A doctor in Norway lost its right to operate, now he is working in the health care in the county of Gävleborg. The surgeon was turned off in Norway after giving wrong treatment to patients. Two or three years ago while doing my exams to get my dental title approved in Sweden, a…
Implications of the first self-replicating synthetic bacterial cell
Extracted from ; Funding Synthetic Genomics, Inc. Genomic science has greatly enhanced our understanding of the biological world. It is enabling researchers to “read” the genetic code of organisms from all branches of life by sequencing the four letters that make up DNA. Sequencing genomes has now become routine, giving rise to thousands of genomes…
An ethical dilemma “LIMITATION OF TREATMENT”
“Limitation of treatment”, a patient is not given the neccesary respiratory aid when lab tests prove that treatment is giving result. What Jewish Ethical law has to say about this.
