About the Author

Fred Rosner, M.D., F.A.C.P., is Director of the Department of Medicine of the Mount Sinai Services at the Queens Hospital Center and Professor of Medicine at New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is an internationally known authority on medical ethics and the author of five books, including Modern Medicine and Jewish Ethics and Medicine and Jewish Law—Volumes I & II. Dr. Rosner is a noted Maimonidean scholar and has translated and published, in English, most of Maimonides' medical writings.