Bioethics

Academic Centers

Government Agencies

Publications

Resources

Academic Centers

The American Journal of Bioethics & bioethics.net

This is a University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics site that provides lots of links to useful background information on various topics in bioethics.

Bioethics & Health Care Ethics Resources

The Centre for Applied Ethics which sponsors this site was created by in 1993 by the University of British Columbia Board of Governors. Categorized links such as "Ethics Institutes & Organizations", "Publications" and "Other Related Institutes & Organizations" are just a few of the areas addressed at this site.

Center for Bioethics--University of Minnesota

The goal of the Center and the links provided at this site is designed to help students, professionals, policy makers and the public in dealing with the ethical issues that can be found in health care and the life sciences.

Johns Hopkins University Bioethics Institute

The Bioethics Institute was established in 1995 as a way to promote research in bioethics. In addition to information regarding the Institute, this site also has related links to other bioethics information sources.

Kennedy Institute of Ethics

The Kennedy Institute of Ethics is a teaching and research center offering ethical perspectives on major policy issues. It's noted as being the "largest university based group of faculty members in the world devoted to research and teaching in biomedical ethics and other areas of applied ethics".

National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature

This has the reputation of having the world's largest collection related to ethical issues in medical and biomedical research. It is intended to be a resource for the public as well as an in-depth research resource for scholars.

The Online Ethics Center for Engineering & Science

This site is designed to provide engineers, scientists, and science and engineering students with resources useful for understanding and addressing ethical issues. This Center is virtually located on the campus of Case Western Reserve University.

Poynter Center--Indiana University

The Poynter Center is an endowed ethics research center at Indiana University-Bloomington. The Center in recent years has focused on bioethics, religion, teaching, ethics and professional ethics. This site also provides numerous links dealing with general, research ethics and research policy information.

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Government Agencies

Bioethics Resources - National Institutes of Health

Background information and positions on various bioethical issues are provided at this site. Resource links are for those interested in bioethics, and they include National Institutes of Health data as well as information beyond that organization.

Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Human Genetic Research (ELSI)

ELSI was established as an integral part of the Human Genome Project. The idea of this program was to identify, analyze and address the ethical, legal and social implications of human genetics research.

The President's Council on Bioethics

The National Bioethics Advisory Commission was created in a 1995 Executive Order to provide advice and make recommendations to the National Science & Technology Council. Some areas of investigation include thing like human research and genetics. Archived reports and working papers, such as "Cloning Human Beings" is available full text at this site. A link to the National Bioethics Commission can also be found at http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/nbac.

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Publications

Bioethics--Ingenta

Online access is available through Ingenta to the journal Bioethics. You can access the current volumes as well as those as far back as 1997. The articles are displayed in a PDF format, and the full text is free of charge.

Bioethics Information Retrieval Project

Search PubMed or LOCATORplus to access links bioethics information. Don't know how to search PubMed? This site provides tips on effectively accessing information in this database. If you don't want to search the database and have some time, you can request a custom search.

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Resources

Biotech Bioethics on the Web

Numerous links in the area of bioethics are available at this site. These links are categorizes in areas such as Academic Ethics Groups, News and Information on Biomedical Research, Patent/Consumer Groups and Educational and Policy Groups. Recent additions are listed in their own section too.

Biotechnology & Ethics Electronic Resources

Marin Gillis, a Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Florida, has compiled an annotated list of biotech and biotech related Web sites.

Finding Bioethics Information

An online guide, developed by the UIUC Biology Library, designed to help searchers locate print and electronic resources in the area of bioethics.

HealthWeb: Bioethics

HealthWeb is a collaborative project between the Southern Illinois University Medical Library and the HealthWeb project. It is designed for educational purposes only, and links to various evaluated bioethics resources, including court decisions, electronic publications and conference information can be found at this site.

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