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Author Kochen, Madeline, 1957- author.

Title Organ donation and the divine lien in Talmudic law : a pound of flesh / Madeline Kochen, J.D., Ph. D., University of Michigan, Law School
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Contents Beyond gift and commodity: rethinking the compartmentalization approach to the problem of commodification -- Alternate property conceptions : the donor's lien -- "From the table of the most high" : divine ownership and private property in Talmudic law -- "And your brother shall live with you" : the divine lien and the obligation to save human life -- Returning a "lost body" with one's body : human organ transplantation and the (re)consecration of the body
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Donation of organs, tissues, etc. (Jewish law)
Human body in rabbinical literature.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
Donation of organs, tissues, etc. (Jewish law)
Human body in rabbinical literature
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781107731721
1107731720
9780511979804
0511979800