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Medical Ethics

This guide directs you to a handful of key resources that will help you get started in finding information in Medical Ethics. With a highly selective list of books, journals, databases, websites, etc., we hope to get you headed in the right direction. You can also further explore by trying a Medical Ethics-related MetaFind search.


Books

Encyclopedia of bioethics

International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences
The scope of this encyclopedia reflects an open view on the interactions and transactions between genetic, brain, behavioral, social, and cultural factors and processes.

National bioethics advisory committee. Research guidelines
NBAC is a presidential commission created in 1995, to consider protection of the rights and welfare of human research subjects. Five reports and numerous recommendations have been published, addressing the protection of those who volunteer for research while supporting the continued advance of science and understanding of the human condition.

Pharmaceutical ethics
Covers issues that the research pharmacist may confront, including informed consent, costs and benefits of medicines, and appropriate distribution methods.


Databases

Database on health and human rights actors
This database contains information gathered from a survey of organizations concerning their structures and programs. It is searchable by country (where the organization is located) or by specific health issue.

ETHX on the Web
The online catalog for the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL) ETHX on the Web, contains citations to journal articles, books and book chapters, Web documents, audiovisuals, conference proceedings, and unpublished documents relating to bioethics and professional ethics.

European database on literature of ethics in medicine


EJournals

Bioethics

BMJ

Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics

Hastings Center report

Journal of law, medicine & ethics

Journal of medical ethics

Journal of medicine and philosophy

Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences

Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal

New England journal of medicine

Social science & medicine

Virtual mentor


Websites

Bioethics Information Resources
This new easy-to-use electronic resource will assist users in finding the bioethics information they need by searching NLM databases as well as linking to other Federal government and outside resources.

Bioethics web
This is a searchable catalog of internet sites and resources covering bioethics. Preformatted searches are available, including one for Islamic medicine.

Blog.bioethics.net
This weblog is written by the editors of The American Journal of Bioethics and covers bioethics news with discussions to put it in context. The views expressed are not represented in any way to be those of anyone other than the authors of the posts.

Literature searches from the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
The Center, which is part of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, will provide literature searches in the field of bioethics to anyone.



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