The Schlesinger Institute for Medical-Halachic Research, established in Israel in 1966 with support from the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, is named in honor of the hospital's second Director General.
Its objectives include researching medical-halacha intersections, analyzing emerging dilemmas in healthcare, and providing guidance based on Jewish legal principles.
[1] The Schlesinger Institute offers religious and academic programs in Jewish medical ethics, often featuring prominent figures in the field, to diverse audiences and student groups.
The articles include: Paternity, Suicide, Autonomy and Free Will, Hospitals, Genetics, Religion and Science, Consent, Abortions, IVF, Organ Transplantation, Conflict of Halacha and Science, Old Age, The Patient, Embalming, Malpractice, Pain, Kashrut and Shabbat, Birth, Medical Education, Human Sexuality, Limited Resources, Medical Experimentation on Humans, Surgery, Confidentiality, Fertility, Lifesaving, Causing Pain to Animals, Triage, Defining Death, Physicians, and General and Jewish Ethics.
Topics covered include the doctor and patient on weekdays and Shabbat, Yom Kippur and Pesach, in the hospital or at home, hospice, end of life and brain death, pregnancy and assisted reproduction, contraception and abortion, brit milah and the medical problems of niddah, medical malpractice and claims, genetic engineering and cloning, DNA and stem cells, AIDS and herpes, the threatened doctor and the psychiatric patient, Hatzalah and preventive medicine and their attendant problems in halacha.