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Professional organisations
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AAPAE – Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics
http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/aapae/

ABA – Australasian Bioethics Association
http://www.australasian-bioethics.org.au/

AIHLE – The Australian Institute of Health, Law and Ethics
http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/aihle/

American Medical Assocation
http://www.ama-assn.org/

American Society of Anesthesiologists (ethics curriculum)
www.asahq.org/wlm/Ethics.html.

American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics
http://www.aslme.org/

ASBH – American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
http://www.asbh.org/

Association for Practical and professional Ethics
http://php.ucs.indiana.edu/~appe/home.html

Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
http://www3.utsouthwestern.edu/aapp/index.htm

Association of Respiratory Nurse Specialists (ARNS)
http://www.arns.co.uk/index.htm

Australian Medical Association
http://www.ama.com.au

British Medical Association
http://www.bma.org.uk

Canadian Bioethics Society
http://www.bioethics.ca/english/

General Medical Council, UK
http://www.gmc-uk.org

International Centre for Nursing Ethics
http://www.freedomtocare.org/iane.htm

Nuffield Council on Biothics
http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/home/index.asp

Nuffield Trust
http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/

Postgraduate forum on genetics and society
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/genetics/pfgs/

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
http://www.rcog.org.uk/

Bioethics/ethics search tools
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Bioethics and Society Research Register
http://strauss.ihs.ox.ac.uk/asps/register/search.asp

Bioethics Thesaurus
http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/ir/BT99toc.htm

Build your own bibliography - Human genetics
http://www.humgen.umontreal.ca/en/GenBiblio_q.cfm

Humanities and social sciences online
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/

Internet resources on health and medicine
http://omni.ac.uk/

National Library of Medicine Gateway
http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd

Philosophical research online
http://noesis.evansville.edu/bin/index.cgi

Philosophy around the web
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/phil_index.html

Search Stanford encyclopaedia of philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/search.html

Social science information gateway
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/

Social Science Research Network
http://www.ssrn.com/

The internet encyclopaedia of philosophy
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/

 

Bioethics/ethics centres
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Bioethics – Charles Sturt University
http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/humss/bioethic/index.htm

Bioethics Centre University of Otago
http://www.otago.ac.nz/bioethics

Centre for Applied Ethics – University of British Columbia
http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources/

Centre for Applied Philosophy – Flinders University
http://wwwehlt.flinders.edu.au/cap/

Centre for Bioethics – University of Minnesota
http://www.bioethics.umn.edu/

Centre for Bioethics and Health Law – University of Pittsburgh
http://www.pitt.edu/~bioethic/

Centre for Biomedical Ethics – Case Western Reserve University
http://www.cwru.edu/med/bioethics/bioethics.html

Centre for Ethics and the Professions – Harvard University
http://www.ethics.harvard.edu/

Centre for Health Care Ethics – Saint Louis University
http://www.slu.edu/centers/chce/

Centre for Human Bioethics – Monash University
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/bioethics/

Centre for Law and Genetics
http://www.lawgenecentre.org

Centre for Professional Ethics – University of Central Lancashire
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/ethics/cpe/

Centre for Social Ethics and Policy - University of Manchester
http://les.man.ac.uk/law/ethicspol.htm

Centre for the Study of Health and Society (CSHS) – University of Melbourne
http://www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/general/projects/cshs/

Clinical Unit in Ethics and Health Law – University of Newcastle
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/cuehl/

Ethox – the Oxford Centre for Ethics
http://www.ethox.org.uk/

Eubois Ethics Institute
http://www.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/~macer/index.html

Hastings Center
http://www.thehastingscenter.org/index.html

Japanese Bioethics (Waseda University, Japan)
http://kenko.human.waseda.ac.jp/rihito/lab.html

Johns Hopkins bioethics institute
http://www.med.jhu.edu/bioethics_institute/

Joint Centre for Bioethics – University of Toronto
http://www.utoronto.ca/jcb/

Kennedy Institute of Ethics
http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/

King’s Centre for Medical Law and Ethics
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/law/research/cmle/

Princeton Bioethics Forum
http://www.princeton.edu/~bioethic/

Program in ethics – University of Texas Southwestern
http://www3.utsouthwestern.edu/ethics/

Stanford University Centre for Biomedical Ethics
http://scbe.stanford.edu/

University of Washington (bioethics education project)
http://eduserv.hscer.washington.edu/bioethics/

Resources and news
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BBC News – health
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/default.stm

Bioethics – Child health
http://www.utoronto.ca/jcb/child_health.htm

Bioethics and medical humanities texts
http://wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/bioethics/texts.html

Bioethics discussion pages – moderated by Maurice Bernstein
http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~mbernste/

Bioethics for clinicians
http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/series/bioethic.htm

Bioethics literature – Georgetown University
http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/

Bioethics news - Center for bioethics and human dignity
http://www.cbhd.net/index.html

Bioethics resources on the web
http://www.nih.gov/sigs/bioethics/index.html

CNN.Com Health
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/

Concepts of person and self
http://www2.canisius.edu/~gallaghr/pi.html

Definition of death and end-of-life ethics
http://www.changesurfer.com/BD/Network.html

Dental Ethics
http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/dental/Dental_Educational_Software/Dental-Ethics/ethics-welcome.html

Ethics and health law news
http://ehlc.net/news/current.html

Ethics updates
http://ethics.acusd.edu/

Ethicsweb bookstore
http://www.ethicsweb.ca/books/

Global bioethics resources
http://www.utoronto.ca/jcb/Global/global_bioethics.htm

Harvard world health news
http://www.worldhealthnews.harvard.edu/

HumGen newsletter - new reports and drafts
http://www.humgen.umontreal.ca/en/GenInfoReports.cfm

Publishing in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities
http://www.asbh.org/papers/pdf/handbook.pdf

Science, Technology and Society
http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/mds/stslinks.html

Voluntary euthanasia
http://www.euthanasia.org/fastaccl.html

Research ethics
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Alliance for Human Research Protection
http://www.ahrp.org/

Belmont Report
http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/mpa/belmont.php3

Centerwatch (lists clinical trials, includes resources)
http://www.centerwatch.com/

Clinical trials database (understanding clinical trials)
http://clinicaltrials.gov/

Clinical trials research group - McGill University
http://www.mcgill.ca/ctrg/

Committee on Publication Ethics
http://www.publicationethics.org.uk

Conflict of interest
http://www.nih.gov/sigs/bioethics/conflict.html

Consumers for Ethics in Research (UK consumer group)
http://www.ceres.org.uk

Declaration of Helsinki
http://www.wma.net/e/policy/17-c_e.html

Department of Health, UK
http://www.corec.org.uk

Draft code of ethics for the health internet
http://www.ihealthcoalition.org/ethics/draftcode.html

Ethical conduct for research involving humans – Canada
http://www.nserc.ca/programs/ethics/english/policy.htm

Ethical issues for international health research 
ttp://www.hsph.harvard.edu/bioethics/archives/index.html

Ethical issues in research – bibliography
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/hum_exp.html

Ethics of medical research - living database
http://www.eric-on-line.co.uk

Gender studies in product development
http://www.fda.gov/womens/Gender.html

Globalization of Clinical Trials (September, 2001)
http://www.hhs.gov/oig/oei/reports/a542.pdf

International issues and codes
http://www.nih.gov/sigs/bioethics/internationalresthics.html

International research ethics
http://www.med.jhu.edu/bioethics_institute/

Internet research: Ethical and legal implications
http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/sfrl/projects/intres/main.htm

MCWIRB – Discussion and News Forum
http://www.mcwirb.org/

National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia, ethical issues
http://www.health.gov.au/nhmrc/issues/index.htm

NIH Stem Cell Information
http://www.nih.gov/news/stemcell/index.htm

Notorious medical experiments
http://www.rbs2.com/humres.htm#anchor389458

Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP)
http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/

Public Citizen Health Research Group
http://www.citizen.org/hrg/about/

Regulatory and Ethical Issues
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/resguide/medical.htm#6a

Research ethics and genetics research
http://members.tripod.com/~ca916/index-8.html

Resources on non-consensual human experimentation
http://www.gpc.peachnet.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/assignments/experiment.html

Responsible Conduct of research
http://rcr.ucsd.edu/index.html

US Army’s contributions to research ethics (historic documents)
http://www.geocities.com/artnscience/jm4-primr.html

 

Law and Policy
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American Society of Gene Therapy (Policy/Position Statement)
http://www.asgt.org/policy/index.html

Australian Legal Information Institute
http://austlii.law.uts.edu.au/

Centre for public health law
http://biotech.law.umkc.edu/cphl/index.htm

Health law resources
http://www.washlaw.edu:80/subject/medicine.html

Human Genetics Commission – UK
http://www.hgc.gov.uk/

Medical Law Review
http://www3.oup.co.uk/medlaw/

National Centre for Biotechnology
http://biotech.law.umkc.edu/index.htm

UNESCO International Bioethics Committee
http://www.unesco.org/ibc/

Journals
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AJOB online – The American Journal of Bioethics
http://ajobonline.com/

Bioethics
http://www.ingenta.com/isis/browsing/AllIssues?journal=infobike://bpl/biot&displayLogin=true&redirectTo=/browsing/AllIssues%3fjournal=infobike://bpl/biot

BioMed Central Medical Ethics
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6939/about

Bulletin of Medical Ethics
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Bulletin_of_Medical_Ethics/

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
http://www.cup.org/

Ethics and Justice – An Interdisciplinary Public Affairs Journal
http://www.ethics-justice.org/

Free Medical Journals
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/

Genomics, Society and Policy
http://www.gspjournal.com

Journal of Applied Philosophy
http://www.ingenta.com/isis/browsing/AllIssues?journal=infobike://bpl/japp&displayLogin=true&redirectTo=/browsing/AllIssues%3fjournal=infobike://bpl/japp

Journal of Medical Ethics
http://www.jmedethics.com/

Journal of Medical Genetics
http://jmedgenet.com

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/kennedy_institute_of_ethics_journal/

Medical Law Review
http://www3.oup.co.uk/medlaw/

The Journal of Philosophy, Science & Law
http://www.psljournal.com/

The Monist
http://wings.buffalo.edu/philosophy/Monet/index.html

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
http://www.wkap.nl/prod/j/1386-7415 

 

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Reports
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Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
http://tis.eh.doe.gov/ohre/roadmap/achre/

Alder Hey (Royal Liverpool Children’s Inquiry)
http://www.rlcinquiry.org.uk/download/index.htm

Belmont Report
http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/mpa/belmont.php3

Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry
http://www.bristol-inquiry.org.uk/final_report/rpt_print.htm

Globalization of Clinical Trials (September, 2001)
http://www.hhs.gov/oig/oei/reports/a542.pdf

Human cloning (Australia Sept. 2001)
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/humancloning/contents.htm

Informed Consent in tissue Donation (January 2001)
http://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/a500.pdf

National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) Reports
http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/nbac/pubs.html

Oversight of Tissue Banking (January 2001)
http://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/a501.pdf

Shipman Inquiry
http://www.the-shipman-inquiry.org.uk/

Stem cell report (UK) June 2000
http://www.doh.gov.uk/cegc/stemcellreport.pdf

Philosophy
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Kant and Kantian ethics
http://ethics.acusd.edu/kant.html

Philosophy at the University of Liverpool (resources)
http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html

Stanford encyclopaedia of philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html#

Utilitarian ethics
http://ethics.acusd.edu/utilitarianism.html

Jobs
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Bioethics/Ethics job site
http://ethicsjobs.ca/

Conferences
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Bioethics International Calendar
http://www2.umdnj.edu/ethicweb/upcome.htm

Ethics Conferences around the World
http://ethics.acusd.edu/conferences/SearchConferencesResultList.asp

 

Useful links
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Free Medical Journals

Medecins Sans Frontieres

MedicalConferences.com

Med411 (Medical Portal)

Medline (PubMed)

Omnus

UK National Electronic Library for Health - Primary Care
 

Learning resources
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BMJ Journals Online learning

bmjlearning.com

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