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National Bioethics Advisory Commission - http://www.bioethics.gov/
Commission created by Presidential Executive order #12975 (10/3/1995). |
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Bioethics.net - http://www.bioethics.upenn.edu/
Broad overview of historical and current moral issues in the fields of medical treatment and research, from the U. of Penn. Includes news, headlines, articles, upcoming events. |
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Breaking Bioethics News - http://www.msnbc.com/news/BREAKINGBIOETHICS_Front.asp
the latest issues and commentary (at MSNBC). |
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Case Western Reserve University's Center for Biomedical Ethics - http://www.cwru.edu/med/bioethics/bioethics.html
Mission is to improve public and professional understanding of the ethical issues involved in health sciences research, healthcare delivery, and health policy development - through teaching, conducting research and stimulating community dialogue. |
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Center for Bioethics and Health Law, University of Pittsburgh - http://www.pitt.edu/~bioethic
Information on joint degree, graduate and continuing education in Bioethics and Health Law. |
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Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity - http://www.cbhd.org/
Provides news, information, and other resources on bioethics. Analysis from a Christian perspective. |
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Markkula Center for Applied Ethics - http://www.scu.edu/ethics/
Ethics Center at Santa Clara University, offers articles, cases, and dialogue in all fields of applied ethics. Focus on: Biotechnology and Health Care Ethics, Character Education, Business Ethics, Government Ethics, Global Ethical Leadership, and Technology Ethics. |
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Medical Ethics - http://www.scu.edu/Ethics/practicing/focusareas/medical/
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. |
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High School Bioethics Curriculum Project (HSBCP) - http://www3.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/hsbioethics/
Uses case studies and discussion questions to introduce bioethics themes and issues into the secondary school classroom. |
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S I B L E at Sheffield - http://www.shef.ac.uk/~sible
Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics at the University of Sheffield, an inter-faculty institute created to bring together the disparate and wide range of expertise in this area. |
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University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics - http://www.utoronto.ca/jcb
Bioethics resources site, with dedicated link pages to Women's Health, Genetics and Ethics, and End-of-life decision making. |
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International Center for Technology Assessment - http://www.icta.org/
Devoted to study of and remedies for the ethical problems of Patents on life and human body parts. |
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Centre for Human Bioethics - http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics
Monash University's One-Stop bioethics site. Bioethics degree programs, Bioethics Resources Centre Center, Bioethics research. |
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Provincial Health Ethics Network (Alberta, Canada) - http://www.phen.ab.ca/
Non-profit Canadian organization dedicated to providing bioethics resources including distance education, Bioethics Week, video and book library, sample advance directives, bioethics articles database, video reviews, workshops and periodicals. |
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Bioethics Forum - http://www.bioethicsforum.org
Portal on issues in bioethics offers news and articles. |
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Starting Points in Health Care Ethics / Bioethics - http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/start/
These pages provide suggested readings as a starting point in learning about bioethics / health care ethics. |
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Bioethics, Inc. - http://www.bioethicsinc.com/
Commercial organisation providing bioethics, clinical ethics, research ethics consultancy services. |
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Australasian Bioethics Information - http://www.australasianbioethics.org
Resources on bioethics issues, including a weekly news digest of the latest bioethics news from around the world. |
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Institute of Human Values in Health Care - http://www.values.musc.edu/
At the Medical University of South Carolina: an interdisciplinary group of scholars whose mission is to bring a more philosophical approach to medicine. |
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Bioethics Research Group @ NTNU - http://www.bioethics.ntnu.no
interdisciplinary research group:ethical challenges of modern medical technology and biotechnology, prenatal screening, postnatal screening, euthanasia, medicalization, risk-perception and genetically modified food. |
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Bioetica en la Red - http://www.bioeticaweb.com/
Spanish language bioethics site, documentation, news, books, |
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Case: Practicing and Teaching on the Newly Dead - http://galenpress.com/extras/extra20.htm
Case commentary on a controversial topic. Should newly dead bodies be used to teach medical practitioners skills that can be used to save others? |
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International Network for Life Studies - http://www.lifestudies.org/
Japanese bioethicist's views on life and death issues, and environmental ethics. |
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The Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics - http://www.sacredchoices.org/
Large collection of commentaries on a wide range of topics by an international, multi-faith network of progressive feminist religious scholars and leaders. |
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Pheromones, Bioethics and Biotechnology - http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Sep/hour1_090100.html
"Science Friday" audio discussion with Charles Greer, Arthur Caplan, and Susanna Priest on public attitudes about biotechnology research around the world and on the identification of a human gene linked to pheromones. Features related links. |
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The Garrett Hardin Society - http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/
Dedicated to the preservation of the writings and ideas of Garrett James Hardin. A common thread throughout his work is an interest in bioethics. |
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Islamic Views on Medical Ethics - http://www.islamicmedicine.org/ethics.htm
Islamic views on many medical ethics issues including organ donation, cloning, euthanasia, abortion , fertility, sex change operations. |
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Bioethics: a fully online introductory course by Dr. Tom Kerns - http://www.bioethicscourse.info
The bioethics of clinical medical practice, medical research, health care ethics, public health, and human rights are dealt with in this course. |
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Philosophy, Medical Ethics and Society - http://members.tripod.com/~uniregensburgsvk/
site deals with new developments in bioethics and medical ethics, offers texts and information about conferences and workshops on ethical aspects of the life sciences. |
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U S Supreme Court Petition - http://www.nitorig.net/ussa_writ1.htm
Whether human-made elements of primary life structures that define the essence of this Court's vaguely defined non-viable (fetus) patentable subject matter under 35 U.S.C. |
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Council of Europe Bioethics Division - http://www.coe.int/T/E/Legal_affairs/Legal_co-operation/Bioethics/
European Bioethics Convention, Human Rights and Biomedicine human cloning, organ transplantation, biomedical research, human embryo and foetus, human genetics, xenotransplantation, |
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AIDS in Africa - Ethics, Law, Society - http://www.caledonian.ac.uk/ceppcg/developingworldbioethics/AIDS-ELSI/
This site covers ethical, legal, social issues of HIV/AIDS in AFRICA (focus on South Africa). Folders cover patients, health care professionals, resource allocation, research, IPR and other issues. |
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Bioethics Website at Charles Sturt University - http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/humss/bioethic/index.htm
The main bioethics teaching site for students at Charles Sturt University. Visitors are welcome to browse the public pages. |
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Reflections on Biomedical Ethics in the Cancer Ward - http://avromavl.esmartweb.com
A cancer patient discusses the issues of informed consent, patient autonomy, quality of life and human dignity. |
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The Hastings Center - http://www.thehastingscenter.org
Exploring fundamental ethical questions in health care, biotechnology, and the environment. Independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. |