General Bioethics Resources

• The President's Council on Bioethics: Reports and Topics of Concern
  "...reports on ethical issues that arise from advances in biotechnology and biomedical sciences. Such issues include: determination of death, human cloning, human dignity and bioethics, newborn screening, stem cell research, alternative sources of stem cells, end-of-life care, the regulation of assisted reproduction, and the uses of biotechnology that go ' beyond therapy.'"
• The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University
  "The Institute and its library serve as an unequalled resource for those who research and study ethics, as well as those who debate and make public policy. The Kennedy Institute is home to a group of scholars who engage in research, teaching, and public service on issues that include protection of research subjects, reproductive and feminist bioethics, end of life care, health care justice, intellectual disability, cloning, gene therapy, eugenics, and other major issues in bioethics." (includes the Scope Notes series )
• The University of Iowa Libraries: Biomedical Ethics
  "An introduction to sources of information having to do with all aspects of ethics in the biosciences and the health sciences."
• University of Washington School of Medicine:  Bioethics Topics (more than 30 student-oriented topics) "Each topic begins with an overview and a series of commonly asked questions. In addition, there are several case-based scenarios with discussions linked to each topic. Links to additional readings and related websites are included at the end of topic."
• Canadian Medical Association Journal:  Bioethics for Clinicians (28-part series)
  "Bioethics for Clinicians: This series is intended to elucidate key concepts in bioethics and to help clinicians to integrate bioethical knowledge into daily practice. These articles are written by scholars in medicine, ethics and law. The cases in the Bioethics for clinicians series reflect the authors' experience and are not intended to refer to any particular case."
• European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EUROPA)
  "The Group is a neutral, independent, pluralist and multidisciplinary body, composed of fifteen experts appointed by the Commission for their expertise and personal qualities. The task of the Group is to examine ethical questions arising from science and new technologies and on this basis to issue Opinions to the European Commission in connection with the preparation and implementation of Community legislation or policies."
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Ethics of Science and Technology
  "... UNESCO continues to build and reinforce linkages among ethicists, scientists, policy-makers and civil society to assist Member States in enacting sound and reasoned policies on ethical issues in science and technology."
• World Health Organization, Ethics and Health
  "Ethics and health at WHO."