title: Bioethics, Religion, and Public Policy: Intersections, Interactions, and Solutions.
abstract: Bioethics in America positions itself as a totalizing discipline, capable of providing guidance to any individual within the boundaries of a health or medical setting. Yet the religiously observant or those driven by spiritual values have not universally accepted decisions made by "secular" bioethics, and as a result, religious bioethical thinkers and adherents have developed frameworks and rich counter-narratives used to fend off encroachment by policies perceived as threatening. This article uses brain death in Jewish law, the case of Jahi McMath, and vaccination refusal to observe how the religious system of ethics is presently excluded from bioethics and its implications.
authors.affiliation: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA. peter.kahn@med.einstein.yu.edu.
authors.forename: Peter A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Kahn
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D001926:Brain Death / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003469:Culture; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007599:Judaism / Q000523:psychology; D011640:Public Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D012067:Religion; D014611:Vaccination / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology
keywords: Bioethics; Brain death; Counter-narrative; Jahi McMath; Jewish law; Vaccination