Author Description

Introduction: bioethics in Israel / Hagai Boas, Nadav Davidovitch, Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, Dani Filc and Shai Lavi -- Part I. Bioethics as biopolitics. Biosecuritization of public health preparedness in Israel and Palestine: from traditional bioethics to public health ethics / Nadav Davidovitch and Benjamin Langer -- Republican bioethics / Dani Filc -- Force and feeding: from bioethics to biopolitics in recent Israeli legislation -- About force-feeding hunger-striking inmates / Yoav Kenny -- A cognitive dissonant health system: can we combat racism without admitting it exists? / Hadas Ziv -- Nothing about us without us: a disability challenge to bioethics / Sagit Mor -- Part II. Familialism and reproduction -- The effect of Jewish-Israeli family ideology on policy regarding reproductive technologies / Yael Hashiloni-Dolev -- "Quiet, dependent, nice and loyal": surrogacy agencies discourse of international surrogacy / Hedva Eyal and Adi Moreno -- Palestinian fertility in Israeli sphere / Himmat Zu'bi -- Childbirth in Israel: home birth and newborn screening / Margherita Brusa and Yechiel Bar Ilan -- 'Life after death': the Israeli approach to posthumous reproduction / Vardit Ravitsky and Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen -- Part III. Is there an Israeli exceptionalism? -- Reckless or pioneering? Public health genetics services in Israel / Aviad E. Raz -- The end-of-life decision-making process in Israel: bioethics, law and the practice of doctors / Roy Gilbar and Nili Karako-Eyal -- Organ donation, brain death and the limits of liberal bioethics / Hagai Boas and Shai Lavi -- Towards an Israeli medical ethics / Michael Weingarten -- Tilting the frame: Israeli suicide as an alternative to suicide in Israel / Haim Hazan and Raquel Romberg