Jewish Medical Ethics: A Comparative and Historical Study of the Jewish Religious Attitude to Medicine and Its Practice, by Immanuel Jakobovits (Bloch Publishing, First Edition, Third Printing, 1967)

Jewish Medical Ethics by Immanuel Jakobovits. Bloch Publishing Co., New York, 1967. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket, 389 pages. The first comprehensive treatise on Jewish religious medical ethics, tracing the development of Jewish and other religious views on medico-moral problems from antiquity to the present. Jakobovits pioneered the field of Jewish medical ethics and later served as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth (1967–1991), was knighted in 1981, and became the first Chief Rabbi to sit in the House of Lords as Baron Jakobovits in 1988. Condition: Good to Very Good. Dust jacket shows creasing and bumping. Internal pages show normal tanning/age-toning consistent with the printing.