Philosophy: Ethics: Applied: Bioethics

Interdisciplinary unit of the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia, dedicated to advancing scholarly and public understanding of ethical, legal, social and public policy issues in health care.

the latest issues and commentary (at MSNBC).

Commission created by Presidential Executive order #12975 (10/3/1995).

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.

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.

These pages provide suggested readings as a starting point in learning about bioethics / health care ethics.

Information on joint degree, graduate and continuing education in Bioethics and Health Law.

At the Medical University of South Carolina: an interdisciplinary group of scholars whose mission is to bring a more philosophical approach to medicine.

A center devoted to teaching future clinical ethicists.

Monash University's One-Stop bioethics site. Bioethics degree programs, Bioethics Resources Centre Center, Bioethics research.

Canadian nursing ethics website. Highly informative and professional.

A specialised collection of books, journals, newspaper articles, legal materials, regulations, codes, government publications, and other relevant documents concerned with issues in biomedical and professional ethics. The world's largest collection related to ethical issues in medicine and biomedical research.

The UNESCO IBC is one of many international bodies dealing with the subject of bioethics. This site contains mostly minutes of this forums meetings and various more or less important resolutions.

Contains information about the Glasgow University Medical Ethics Debating Society. Organisational website with no informative bioethics content beyond that relating to the debating club.

Excellent bioethics resources site, with dedicated link pages to Women's Health, Genetics & Ethics, and End-of-life decision making.

Centre for Bio-Ethics and Health Law is an independent academic institute offering short-term advice and research; it organises courses and provides training sessions. Within the Centre veterinarians and ethicists work together in areas of applied ethics and education and in judicial research.

Professional society of individuals, organizations, and institutions interested in bioethics and humanities.

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.

Provides news, information, and other resources on bioethics. Analysis from a Christian perspective.

Research, education programs, newsletter, and internet links in the area of medical ethics.

The National Rural Bioethics Project aims to identify ethics-related issues that face rural healthcare providers, and to devolop and provide appropriate and relevant resources and materials that help resolve such issues.

Spanish language bioethics site, documentation, news, books,

Commercial organisation providing bioethics, clinical ethics, research ethics consultancy services.

Japanese bioethicist's views on life and death issues, and environmental ethics.

Islamic views on many medical ethics issues including organ donation, cloning, euthanasia, abortion , fertility, sex change operations.