J. David Bleich is a Rosh Yeshiva and Rosh Kollel le-Hora'ah at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and Herbert and Florence Tenzer Professor of Law and Ethics at Yeshiva University. He has served as visiting Gruss Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. He is the author of the acclaimed six-volume series, "Contemporary Halakhic Problems", as well as "Judaism and Healing, Providence in the Philosophy of Gersonides", "Bircas Ha-Chammah", and more.

Topics include:

The Obligation to Heal

The Role of the Physician

Preservation of Life and Health

Truth-Telling

Professional Secrecy

Kohanim as Medical and Dental Students

Visiting the Sick

Circumcision

Population Control

Contraception

Sterilization

Homosexuality

Transsexual Surgery and Ambiguous Genitalia

Artificial Insemination

Test-Tube Babies

Host-Mothers

Abortion

Genetic Screening

Sex Preselection

Hazardous Procedures and Experimentation

Animal Experiments

Plastic Surgery

Organ Transplants

Euthanasia

Time of Death

Suicide

Autopsy