Some Medico-Social Problems involved in Child Adoption

Some medico-social problems involved in child adoption.

Some modern responsa on medico-moral problems.

Having written and lectured extensively on Jewish medical ethics, I often receive personal as well as public enquiries for guidance in this field, in addition to fairly frequent requests for articles. Some of my responses have been featured in virtually every issue of L’eylah, the magazine published twice a year by my Office since the Winter 1975/76, and continued in association with Jews’ Coll...

Experiencing infertility--social work dilemmas in child adoption procedures.

The research deals with experiencing infertility and its consequences in the adoption of a child and focuses on infertile couples that have wished to adopt a child and joined a program preparing them to be foster parents. The results show that most of the infertile couples experience infertility very much as being different from couples with children as well as having to cope with the feelings ...

Some Problems of the Rheumatic Child.

Confronted by a child suffering from rheumatism we must relegate to second place consideration of the interesting but vexed question whether this is due to streptococcal infection or to a fault in physiological chemistry. We need rather to form some clear conception of the actual processes at work, how their dangers may be recognised and forestalled, how we may gauge the success or failure of o...

Some Problems Involved in the Study of Storm Surges

The various forces which affect the height of the sea' and the response of the sea to these forces are reviewed. An attempt to clarify the interactions among the astronomical, climatological, and meteorological forces involved, reveals that the response to any given force varies from one part of the sea to another, and that a complete separation of the effects produced by the various forces is ...