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Autopsy
Scheib, Ariel
Scheib, Ariel
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autopsy_jewish_law.pdf
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"Some scholars judge that autopsy should be strictly forbidden. Jewish law forbids the despoliation of a body once it is deceased, to provide the body with the utmost respect and honor. If a body undergoes mutilating examination in an autopsy, many rabbis deem this practice makes the body impure. Nevertheless, other rabbinic scholars argue that saving and preserving lives is one of the highest commandments in the Torah. If physicians can utilize a deceased body to uncover medical enigmas, it could prevent unnecessary deaths. These rabbis argue that performing autopsies benefit of the living."(pg 1)
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2008-05-27
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