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Bioethics Research Guide

 

Subjects covered:

Bioethics including reproductive technology, genetic testing, genetic enhancement, human research/institutional review boards, organ donation, and end-of-life issues

 

Print sources

Bioethics / edited by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul.
   Imprint: Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: R724.B45822 2002

Bioethics in a liberal society : the political framework of bioethics decision making / Thomas May.
   Imprint: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: R724 .M278 2002

Bioethics in law / by Bethany J. Spielman.
   Imprint: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2007.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXKF3821 .S687 2007

Children, medicine and the law / edited by Michael Freeman.
   Imprint: Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Dartmouth, c2005.
   Series: International library of medicine, ethics and law
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXK3601.C554 2005

Death, dying and the ending of life / edited by Margaret P. Battin, Leslie P. Francis and Bruce L. Landesman.
   Imprint: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2007.
   Series: The international library of medicine, ethics and law
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: R726.D4413 2007

Encyclopedia of bioethics / Warren T. Reich, editor in chief.
   Imprint: New York : Macmillan Pub. Co. : Simon & Schuster Macmillan ; London : Prentice Hall, Intl, c1995-
   Subject: Bioethics -- Encyclopedias.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Reference
   Call No.: QH332.E522 1995

First do no harm: law, ethics and healthcare/Sheila A. M. McLean, ed..
   Imprint: Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2006.
   Location: D'Angelo Law Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXK3601.F57 2006

Health and human rights : basic international documents / edited by Stephen P. Marks.
   Imprint: [Boston, Mass.]: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights ; Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : Dist. by Harvard Univ. Press, 2006.
  Series: Harvard series on health and human rights
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: RA418 .H3872 2006

Health care law and ethics / Mark A. Hall, Mary Anne Bobinski, David Orentlicher.
   Imprint: New York : Aspen Publishers, c2007.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Course Reserve
   Call No. XXKF3821.A7C87 2007

Health care law and ethics in a nutshell / by Mark A. Hall, Ira Mark Ellman [and] Daniel S. Strouse.
   Imprint: St. Paul, Minn. : West Pub. Co., 1999.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Reserve
   Call No.: XXKF3821.Z9H35 1999

The law and ethics of medical research : international bioethics and human rights / Aurora Plomer.
   Imprint: London ; Portland, Or. : Cavendish, c2005.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXK3601.P566 2005

The law and ethics of the pharmaceutical industry / by Graham Dukes.
   Imprint: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2006.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXK3636 .D853 2006 

Legal perspectives in bioethics / edited by Ana S. Iltis, Sandra H. Johnson and Barbara A. Hinze.
   Imprint: New York ; London : Routledge, 2008.
   Series: Routledge annals of bioethics ; 3
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXKF3821 .L445 2008

Life, liberty and the defense of dignity : the challenge for bioethics / Leon R. Kass.
   Imprint: San Francisco : Encounter Books, 2002.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: QH332 .K37 2002

More humane medicine : a liberal Catholic bioethics / James F. Drane.
   Imprint: Edinboro, Pa. : Edinboro University Press, c2003.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: R725.56.D736 2003

Policing pregnancy : the law and ethics of obstetric conflict / Sheena Meredith.
   Imprint: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.
   Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXKF2910.G94 M47 2005

The power of pills : social, ethical and legal issues in drug development, marketing, and pricing / edited by Jillian Clare Cohen, Patricia Illingworth, and Udo Schüklenk.
   Imprint: London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto, 2006.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: RA401.A1 P69 2006

Principles of health care ethics.
   Imprint: Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2007.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: R724.P69 2007

The status of family in law and bioethics : the genetic context / Roy Gilbar.
   Imprint: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.
   Location: D'Angelo Law, Bookstacks
   Call No.: XXKD3410.I54 G55 2005

 

Journals with Coverage of Bioethics Issues

The journals listed here specialize in coverage of bioethics issues; there are many articles on these issues in mainstream law and medical journals. 

American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB)
American Journal of Law & Medicine
Bioethics
Bioethics Bulletin
Bioethics Literature Review
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
Ethics and Medicine
Genomics, Society and PolicyHastings Center Report
Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine
IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
Princeton Journal of Bioethics
Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics

 

Databases and Library Electronic Resources

ATLA Religion Database  (Law Library webpage > law journals > non-legal journals > ATLA Religion database)

BNA current awareness newsletters (Law Library webpage > law databases > BNA)
BioTech Watch
Health Law Reporter
Medical Research Law & Policy Report  

John Crerar Science Library/Public Policy in Science, Technology, Medicine & Health
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/sci/science_policy.html
"...a selected list of organizations and agencies that contribute to discussion and action on issues of policy in science, technology, medicine and health. Also included are meta-sites that contain links to other resources, online and in print, on these issues..."

 

Government Agencies

Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Ethics http://www.cdc.gov/od/ethics/
National Human Genome Research Institute: Policy and Ethics http://www.genome.gov/10000006
Online Bioethics Resources http://www.genome.gov/10001744#3
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health  http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/resources/bioethics/index.cfm
National Institutes of Health Ethics Program http://ethics.od.nih.gov/default.htm
The President's Council on Bioethics http://www.bioethics.gov/
United States Department of Health and Human Services http://www.hhs.gov/ 
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Human Health page: http://www.epa.gov/ebtpages/humanhealth.html 
United States Food and Drug Administration: FDA Ethics Program http://www.fda.gov/opacom/ethics/ 
United States National Library of Medicine Bioethics Information Resources Page http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/bioethics.html

 

Webpages (A to Z)

American Bar Association Health Law Section http://www.abanet.org/health/ 
American Health Lawyers Association http://www.healthlawyers.org/ 
American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org/ 
American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics http://www.aslme.org/ 
American Society for Bioethics + Humanities http://www.asbh.org/ 
The Centers for Law and the Public Health, A Collaborative at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown University http://www.publichealthlaw.net/ 
Ethics in Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/index.html 
Genetics and Public Policy Center http://www.dnapolicy.org/about.html 
Georgetown University Law Center Bioethics Research Guide http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/guides/bioethics.cfm 
GlobaLex Research Guide on International Health Law  http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/international_health_law.htm 
HealthLawProf Blog http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/healthlawprof_blog/ 
Jurist Health Law http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/sg_healt.htm 
National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature ETYXWeb http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/databases/ETHXWeb/basice.htm 
World Health Organization http://www.who.int/en/

 

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