Pathfinder for Religious Studies/Philosophy 4110:
Medical Ethics
Internet Resources
Bioethics.Net (Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania)
http://www.med.upenn.edu/~bioethic
Bioethics Forum (Portal on issues in bioethics)
Breaking Bioethics News (Issues and commentary on bioethics issues at MSNBC)
http://msnbc.com/news/BREAKINGBIOETHICS_Front.asp
Ethics Updates (Literature on bioethics, cloning, reproduction)
Bioethics Resources on the Web (Large number of annotated links from the National Institutes of Health)
The President’s Council on Bioethics (Links to material on a large variety of bioethical issues)
Human Genome Project Information (Numerous links to ethical, legal, social, and educational material related to researching the identity and sequence of all human genes sponsored by programs and institutes of the NIH and DOE)
http://ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/home.shtml
The Doe Cold War Human Radiation Experiments Website
http://www.hss.energy.gov/healthsafety/ohre/
The Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/
UNESCO Bioethics Page (Includes Universal and International Declarations on aspects of Bioethics)
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
UNESCO/IUBS/EUBIOS Bioethics Dictionary
http://www.eubios.info/biodict.htm
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (Offered as a Madonna University Library database)
Research Centers
The Hastings Center (Nonpartisan organization that explores a great number of bioethical/biomedical issues)
http://www.thehastingscenter.org
Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity at Trinity International University (Numerous resources and links/ engages bioethical issues from a biblical values point of view)
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University (“…the world’s oldest and most comprehensive academic bioethics center”/useful links on left side of page)
http://kennedyinstitute.georgetown.edu/index.htm
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University (On the left side of the page you will find focus areas and publications with large numbers of full text offerings)
Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame (This Applied Ethics link gives an extensive list of ethics resources)
http://ethicscenter.nd.edu/resources/appeth.shtml
Selected Print Resources in the Madonna University Library
Ref BJ63 E45 2001
Encyclopedia of ethics, 3 vols. New York: Routledge, 2001
Ref BX1753 E595 2007
Encyclopedia of Catholic social thought, social science, and social policy. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007.
Ref Q175.35 E53 2005
Encyclopedia of science, technology, and ethics, 4 vols. Detroit: Macmillan, 2005
Ref QH332 E52 2004
Encyclopedia of bioethics, 4 vols. New York: Macmillan, 2004.
BD236 D44 2005
Human identity and bioethics. New York: CUP, 2005.
BJ1031 B66 2005
What’s wrong?: applied ethicists and their critics. New York: OUP, 2005.
HD30.23 B462 2006
A field guide to good decisions: values in action. Westport: Praeger, 2006.
HD9666.5 W43 2006
Profits before people?: ethical standards and the marketing of prescription drugs. Bloomington: IUP, 2006.
K3240 A56 2005
American bioethics: crossing human rights and health law boundaries. New York: OUP, 2005.
KF3821.S33 2008
Understanding bioethics and the law: the promises and perils of the brave new world of biotechnology. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008.
QH588 S83 P48 2008
Sacred cells?: Why Christians should support stem cell research. Lanjam, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.
R724 B755 2003
Taking issue: pluralism and casuistry in bioethics. Washington, DC: GUP, 2003.
R725.5 B25 2006
Against bioethics. Cambridge: MIT, 2006.
R725.5 E25
Ethics and the business of bioscience. Stanford: SBB, 2004.
R725.55 2006
Handbook of bioethics and religion. New York: OUP, 2006.
R726 B329 2005
Ending life: ethics and the way we die. New York: OUP, 2005.
R727.42 T38 2005
Patient autonomy and the ethics of responsibility. Cambridge: MIT, 2005.
RT42 D433 2008
Decision-making in nursing: thoughtful approaches for practice. Sudbury: Jones & Bartlett, 2008.
RT85 H87 2001
Ethical decision making in nursing and health care: the symphonological approach. New York: Springer, 2001.
Selected Databases available through the Madonna Library from which you may find relevant full-text articles on your topic of study
Religion and Philosophy Collection (EBSCOhost)
Issues and Controversies (FACTS.com)
ProQuest Research Library (ProQuest)
Academic OneFile (Gale)
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