SIGNATURE ASSIGNMENT: JEWISH BIOETHICS

SIGNATURE ASSIGNMENT: JEWISH BIOETHICS

The Talmud proclaims that saving a single soul is like saving the whole world. However, as we have learned in this course, Jewish law has a more complicated relationship with the role of the healer and patient in Judaism.  In this signature assignment, explore the Jewish response to a problem in bioethics.

General Question: What does the Bible, rabbinic literature, medieval and modern Jewish philosophy teach us about life, death and dying, abortion, the new reproductive technologies, organ transplantation, and genetic engineering?

Personal Reflection: Besides addressing the main question in analyzing the topic of your choice, you must also provide a personal reflection on how learning about this topic has changed or challenged your understanding of Jewish thought and culture.

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS

Runners to your marks. . . Think of working on a longer writing project like planning for a marathon not a sprint!  If you try to complete your project in one single burst of energy, you will collapse long before the finish line is ever in sight!  You won’t make it.  Pace yourself throughout the semester. This signature assignment requires you to write and revise a research paper by carefully reading, understanding, and implementing advice about writing, argumentation, content and organization of the paper.  The steps to completing the assignment are outlined below.

STEP 1: CHOOSING A TOPIC

Before receiving permission on your topic, you must 1) watch my Video Note on narrowing a paper topic and 2) participate in a discussion on the lecture.

SAMPLE TOPICS

Orthodox Judaism and Abortion: A Challenge to Halakhah

The Jewish Attitude toward Suicide and Euthanasia

Autopsy and Jewish Law – Respect for the Dead

Human Experimentation – Permissible or Mandatory

Animal Experimentation in Jewish Law

Public Health Dilemmas in the ghettos and camps during the Holocaust (This is the topic I chose) 

Jews, Tenement Reform and Public Health in New York’s Lower East Side

Jewish Views on Cloning Human Beings

Organ Donation after Cardiac Death in Jewish Law

STEP 3: RESEARCH AND WRITING THE ROUGH DRAFT

So now what?You’ve explored primary and secondary sources.  Now it’s time to identify how it speaks the larger issues in the course.  Organize your schedule to read more and research secondary sources. Ideally research and writing should be complementary, integrated activities. 

• The goal at this stage is to create a rough draft. A rough draft is not just a less-polished version of the final draft.  It is a completely different animal!  In writing the rough draft, you are discovering your ideas and gathering the together in a coherent form. The best way to do this is to start thinking about a structure for your rough draft document right away.  There are many possible ways to organize your project and it may change by the final draft.  Think about natural division first. By themes?  chronologically?  This is a good time to make an appointment with me to go over your plan.  Finally, figure out deadlines when you will finish each section of your rough draft.  Aim to write at least five pages double spaced.

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