Response to Letters to the Editor

The author responds to letters to the editor about his article God, Man, Chaos and Control: How God Might Control the Universe

Prophylactic Defibrillator Implantation—Toward an Evidence-Based Approach

The author discusses research on using implantable cardioverter-defibrillators for the primary prevention of sudden death

God, Man, Chaos and Control: How God Might Control the Universe

The purpose of this article is to review the problem of free will and divine intervention from the prism of Jewish sources, within the context of modern science. Among the many lenses the Jewish tradition provides for us to frame history is the division between times of open miracles and hidden miracles. The Bible is full of open miracles, divine revelation, and prophecies. Whereas there is controversy among rabbinic scholars and theologians about whether the miracles happened through natural or supernatural forces, either way, the miracles were still immediately recognizable as acts of God. However, since the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE, those aspects of the Jewish understanding of God’s manifestation are absent from our modern world. Religious philosophers in the Jewish intellectual legacy, who will be discussed below, have offered many explanations for how God may intervene in our lives in a postopen-revelation era. Furthermore I will focus on more recent advances in the understanding of quantum mechanics as they have altered the discussion since a decade ago when Saunders concluded that SDA was not consistent with his understanding of modern theories of nonlinear dynamics (a theory that will be discussed in greater detail later) and quantum mechanics

Implantable Cardioverter–Defibrillators: Reply

The author replies to comments on a previously published article discussing implantable cardioverter-defibrillators

Outer Limits of Biotechnologies: A Jewish Perspective

A great deal of biomedical research focuses on new biotechnologies such as gene editing, stem cell biology and reproductive medicine, which have created a scientific revolution. While the potential medical benefits of this research may be far-reaching, ethical issues related to non-medical applications of these technologies are demanding. We analyze, from a Jewish legal perspective, some of the ethical conundrums that society faces in pushing the outer limits in researching these new biotechnologies

A Comparison of QRS Complexes Resulting From Unipolar and Bipolar Pacing: Implications for Pace-Mapping

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73370/1/j.1540-8159.1991.tb04113.x.pd

An Experimental Study of Transvenous Defibrillation Using a Coronary Sinus Catheter

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/71902/1/j.1540-8167.1989.tb01561.x.pd

Variability in the Measurement of Human Ventricular Refractoriness

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/72916/1/j.1540-8159.1991.tb02885.x.pd

Management of Nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardia Guided By Electrophysiological Testing

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73206/1/j.1540-8159.1993.tb04578.x.pd