Second Texts and Second Opinions

Laurie Zoloth’s Second Texts and Second Opinions: Essays Towards a Jewish Bioethics is a profound and helpful intervention for both bioethics and Jewish studies…It becomes an inspiring and rich resource with which readers can better think for themselves about medical choices - now and into the future. * Joshua Krug, Reading Religion *The book is indispensable reading for members of clinical ethics committees who are keen on self-reflection and who wish to learn what Jewish sources might inform multicultural deliberations in the contemporary healthcare setting. * Y. M. Barilan, The Journal of Religion *

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.