Bioethics
Categories
- Animal Rights or Liberation (5)
- Cloning (62)
- End-of-Life (4)
- Eugenics (19)
- Genetic Engineering (12)
- Peer-Reviewed Journals (7)
- Research Ethics (21)
Links
Provincial Health Ethics Network (Alberta, Canada)
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.
Algorithm: Rapid Approach to Ethical Problems
http://galenpress.com/extras/extra17.htm
How should clinicians approach an ethical dilemma when they have little time to ponder or to seek consultation? This proven method works.
Bioethics Division at Wits University
http://www.health.wits.ac.za/bioethics
Wits University Faculty of Health Sciences Bioethics Division. Resources section (links). Editorial offices of the journals BIOETHICS and DEVELOPING WORLD BIOETHICS. Contact details.
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?
Case: Rights of Minors
http://galenpress.com/extras/extra21.htm
Case commentary on a common dilemma. When can and must children be treated without parental consent?
e-Medical-Ethics.com
http://www.e-medical-ethics.com/
Information about medical and research ethics, history, oaths and declarations.
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.
Affordable access to essential medication in developing countries: conflicts between ethical and e
http://www.wits.ac.za/bioethics/access.htm
Review article by U Schuklenk and RE Ashcroft on ethical issues of drug pricing in developing countries and the consequences of intellectual property rights (patents) on access to essential drugs in such societies.
Council of Europe Bioethics Division
http://www.coe.int/T/E/Legal_affairs/Legal_co-operation/Bioethics/
European Bioethics Convention, Human Rights & Biomedicine human cloning, organ transplantation, biomedical research, human embryo & foetus, human genetics, xenotransplantation,
Markkula Center for Applied 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.
AIDS in Africa - Ethics, Law, Society
http://www.developing-world-bioethics.org
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.
International Association of Bioethics
http://www.bioethics-international.org
official website of this international bioethics umbrella organisation, hosted at the University of the Philippines.
Biomedical Ethics in the Cancer Ward
http://www.geocities.com/avromavl
Reflections on Biomedical Ethics in the Cancer Ward from a Patient's Perspective
International Center for Bioethics, Culture and Disability
http://www.bioethicsanddisability.org/
Extensive site on bioethics, particularly as pertaining to the rights of disabled people.
The Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics
Large collection of commentaries on a wide range of topics by an international, multi-faith network of progressive feminist religious scholars and leaders.
Ethics of Organ Transplants
http://atheism.about.com/library/weekly/aa052302a.htm
A discussion of the ethical issues of organ transplants.



