Bioethics Information Resources
Please note: the materials presented here
are intended to lead clinicians to some reliable resources of bioethics
information. This list is meant to be representative, not exhaustive.
The quality and reliability of health information
on the Web vary widely. When evaluating Web-based health information, consider
the site's source and funding, how often it is updated, the author's
credentials and affiliations, and whether that information is clearly stated.
For more information about how to evaluate Web resources, see
Website
Evaluation and Citing.
Please send
any comments concerning this page to Pamela Bagley.
Finding Bioethics Articles in the Journal
Literature
Take advantage of the ability to limit your
Medline search to articles in the Bioethics subject subset.
PubMed
Enter your search into the search box. Then click on the Limits tab under the search box and select
Bioethics from the Subsets dropdown menu. Click on Go to run your search.
Ovid Medline
Enter your keyword or phrase into the search box, then click on Bioethics under the search box (in the Limit to: section). Click on Perform Search.
National Reference Center of Bioethics Literature
Search for bioethics literature (journal articles, books, chapters, laws, etc) using this resource from the Kennedy Institute of Ethics.
Bioethics Selected Sites
American Medical Association Ethics Page
This site has links to the AMA Code of Medical Ethics, the Virtual Mentor (Ethics Journal of the AMA), an Ethics Resource Center (Educational Resources, Outreach Programs and Products, and End-of-Life Care) and more.
The
Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines
for the Protection of
Human Subjects of Research
This 1979 seminal report was published by the
National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and
Behavioral Research.
Bioethics.Net
This is the web site for the American Journal of Bioethics. Along with articles (Dartmouth has an online subscription), see features (Bioethics for Beginners, Bioethics and Cloning, etc.) and Weekly News Updates.
Ethics in
Medicine
Developed and produced by the University of Washington
School of Medicine, Ethics in Medicine has information on a number of
relevant topics (including a summary of the topic, commonly asked questions and
case reports), bioethics tools and a resource list.
Human Participant Protections
Education for Research Teams
NIH requires “all investigators and key
personnel submitting NIG applications for grants or proposals for contracts, or
receiving new or non-competing awards” to receive education on the protection of
human subjects. This course fulfills the requirement.
See FAQs for the
education requirement.
National
Institutes of Health:
Office of Human Subjects Research
Includes
research guidelines, review standards, and OHSR information sheets.
Bioethics Aggregate Sites
Web sites with links to many Bioethics sites.
American Society for
Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH): Links
A selective but extensive,
categorized list of bioethics resources.
Bioethics Internet
Resources
Developed by The Center for the Study of Bioethics,
Medical College of Wisconsin.
Emory
University's MedWeb
Web links organized by category.
HealthWeb:
Bioethics
HealthWeb provides links to specific, evaluated
information resources on the World-Wide Web selected by librarians and
information professionals at leading academic medical centers in the Midwest.
You can select different categories or do a keyword search of the resources.
National Institutes of Health:
Bioethics Resources on the Web
Resources within and beyond the NIH.
Includes: Bioethics Within the NIH, Federal Bioethics Resources, General
Resources, and Specific Topics.
Full-Text Bioethics Resources on
Lexis-Nexis
Medical & Health Journals
Medical
News
The
Legal Research Section - legal journals, case law, etc. often deal with
bioethical issues.
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