Biomedical Ethics
Newsletter of the European Network for Biomedical Ethics. Subscription information, and one online issue.

The Center for Bioethics
Interdisciplinary unit of the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia, dedicated to advancing scholarly and public understanding of ethical, legal, social and public policy issues in health care.

Breaking Bioethics News
the latest issues and commentary (at MSNBC).

MedWebPlus: Bioethics
exhaustive collection of links for Bioethics.

National Bioethics Advisory Commission
Commission created by Presidential Executive order #12975 (10/3/1995).

Medical Ethics
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.

Case Western Reserve University's Center for Biomedical Ethics
Mission is to improve public and professional understanding of the ethical issues involved in health sciences research, healthcare delivery, and health policy development - through teaching, conducting research and stimulating community dialogue.

Starting Points in Health Care Ethics / Bioethics
These pages provide suggested readings as a starting point in learning about bioethics / health care ethics.

Bioethics Website at Charles Sturt University
The main bioethics teaching site for students at Charles Sturt University. Visitors are welcome to browse the public pages.

Center for Bioethics and Health Law, University of Pittsburgh
Information on joint degree, graduate and continuing education in Bioethics and Health Law.

Institute of Human Values in Health Care
At the Medical University of South Carolina: an interdisciplinary group of scholars whose mission is to bring a more philosophical approach to medicine.

MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
A center devoted to teaching future clinical ethicists.

Bioethics.net
Broad overview of historical & current moral issues in the fields of medical treatment & research, from the U. of Penn. Includes news, headlines, articles, upcoming events.

Centre for Human Bioethics
Monash University's One-Stop bioethics site. Bioethics degree programs, Bioethics Resources Centre Center, Bioethics research.

NursingEthics.ca
Canadian nursing ethics website. Highly informative and professional.

International Center for Technology Assessment
Devoted to study of and remedies for the ethical problems of Patents on life and human body parts.

American - National Reference Center for BioEthics Literature
A specialised collection of books, journals, newspaper articles, legal materials, regulations, codes, government publications, and other relevant documents concerned with issues in biomedical and professional ethics. The world's largest collection related to ethical issues in medicine and biomedical research.

UNESCO: The International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO
The UNESCO IBC is one of many international bodies dealing with the subject of bioethics. This site contains mostly minutes of this forums meetings and various more or less important resolutions.

Glasgow University Medical Ethics Debating Society
Contains information about the Glasgow University Medical Ethics Debating Society. Organisational website with no informative bioethics content beyond that relating to the debating club.

University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics
Excellent bioethics resources site, with dedicated link pages to Women's Health, Genetics & Ethics, and End-of-life decision making.

Affymetrix Resources: Genetics and Society
Affymetrix believes informed public discussion will help ensure that beneficial uses of genetic information are available to society.

Centre for Bio-Ethics and Health Law
Centre for Bio-Ethics and Health Law is an independent academic institute offering short-term advice and research; it organises courses and provides training sessions. Within the Centre veterinarians and ethicists work together in areas of applied ethics and education and in judicial research.

American Society of Bioethics and Humanities
Professional society of individuals, organizations, and institutions interested in bioethics and humanities.

Philosophy, Medical Ethics and Society
site deals with new developments in bioethics and medical ethics, offers texts and information about conferences and workshops on ethical aspects of the life sciences.

Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
Provides news, information, and other resources on bioethics. Analysis from a Christian perspective.

Department of Medical Humanities, East Carolina University
Research, education programs, newsletter, and internet links in the area of medical ethics.

Industrial Hygiene Code of Conduct
American Board of Industrial Hygiene Ethics Code. May 1995

The National Rural Bioethics Project
The National Rural Bioethics Project aims to identify ethics-related issues that face rural healthcare providers, and to devolop and provide appropriate and relevant resources and materials that help resolve such issues.

EthicsCommittee.ca -- Resources for Hospital Ethics Committees
Canadian clearinghouse for resources related to hospital ethics committees.

MedicalEthics.ca - Medical Ethics Resources
Clearinghouse for resources related to medical (i.e., physician) ethics.

Bioetica en la Red
Spanish language bioethics site, documentation, news, books,

Bioethics, Inc.
Commercial organisation providing bioethics, clinical ethics, research ethics consultancy services.

International Network for Life Studies
Japanese bioethicist's views on life and death issues, and environmental ethics.

Islamic Views on Medical Ethics
Islamic views on many medical ethics issues including organ donation, cloning, euthanasia, abortion , fertility, sex change operations.

Provincial Health Ethics Network (Alberta, Canada)
Non-profit Canadian organization dedicated to providing bioethics resources including distance education, Bioethics Week, video and book library, sample advance directives, bioethics articles database, video reviews, workshops and periodicals.

Algorithm: Rapid Approach to Ethical Problems
How should clinicians approach an ethical dilemma when they have little time to ponder or to seek consultation? This proven method works.

Bioethics Division at Wits University
Wits University Faculty of Health Sciences Bioethics Division. Resources section (links). Editorial offices of the journals BIOETHICS and DEVELOPING WORLD BIOETHICS. Contact details.

Case: Practicing and Teaching on the Newly Dead
Case commentary on a controversial topic. Should newly dead bodies be used to teach medical practitioners skills that can be used to save others?

Case: Rights of Minors
Case commentary on a common dilemma. When can and must children be treated without parental consent?

e-Medical-Ethics.com
Information about medical and research ethics, history, oaths and declarations.

U S Supreme Court Petition
Whether human-made elements of primary life structures that define the essence of this Court's vaguely defined non-viable (fetus) patentable subject matter under 35 U.S.C.

Affordable access to essential medication in developing countries: conflicts between ethical and economic imperatives
Review article by U Schuklenk and RE Ashcroft on ethical issues of drug pricing in developing countries and the consequences of intellectual property rights (patents) on access to essential drugs in such societies.

Council of Europe Bioethics Division
European Bioethics Convention, Human Rights & Biomedicine human cloning, organ transplantation, biomedical research, human embryo & foetus, human genetics, xenotransplantation,

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Ethics Center at Santa Clara University, offers articles, cases, and dialogue in all fields of applied ethics. Focus on: Biotechnology and Health Care Ethics, Character Education, Business Ethics, Government Ethics, Global Ethical Leadership, and Technology Ethics.

AIDS in Africa - Ethics, Law, Society
This site covers ethical, legal, social issues of HIV/AIDS in AFRICA (focus on South Africa). Folders cover patients, health care professionals, resource allocation, research, IPR and other issues.

International Association of Bioethics
official website of this international bioethics umbrella organisation, hosted at the University of the Philippines.

Biomedical Ethics in the Cancer Ward
Reflections on Biomedical Ethics in the Cancer Ward from a Patient's Perspective

International Center for Bioethics, Culture and Disability
Extensive site on bioethics, particularly as pertaining to the rights of disabled people.

The Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics
Large collection of commentaries on a wide range of topics by an international, multi-faith network of progressive feminist religious scholars and leaders.

Ethics of Organ Transplants
A discussion of the ethical issues of organ transplants.

National Information Resource on Ethics & Human Genetics
Compilation of links, journals and other publications that offer research about the ethical and moral aspects of applying genetic knowledge to humans.

Pheromones, Bioethics and Biotechnology
"Science Friday" audio discussion with Charles Greer, Arthur Caplan, and Susanna Priest on public attitudes about biotechnology research around the world and on the identification of a human gene linked to pheromones. Features related links.

Reflections on Biomedical Ethics in the Cancer Ward
A cancer patient discusses the issues of informed consent, patient autonomy, quality of life and human dignity.

Stem Cells in Biomedicine... with a Flavor of Bioethics
An introduction to stem cells research from both biomedicine 's and bioethics 's points of view.

Bioethics: a fully online introductory course by Dr. Tom Kerns
The bioethics of clinical medical practice, medical research, health care ethics, public health, and human rights are dealt with in this course.

French National Consultative Bioethics Committee
all the opinions, recommendations and reports, in english, published by the Committee

Australasian Bioethics Information
Resources on bioethics issues, including a weekly news digest of the latest bioethics news from around the world.

Bioethics Research Group @ NTNU
interdisciplinary research group:ethical challenges of modern medical technology and biotechnology, prenatal screening, postnatal screening, euthanasia, medicalization, risk-perception and genetically modified food.

Neonatology And Rights Of Families
NAROF gives voice to parents and professionals critical of current practices in neonatology. A resource to gain insight into the human cost of raising survivors of neonatal research and practice.

S I B L E at Sheffield
Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics at the University of Sheffield, an inter-faculty institute created to bring together the disparate and wide range of expertise in this area.

Synaptic Clog
A weblog maintained to examine current ethical issues in medicine and health.

Biotechnology Governance Forum
This site provides comprehensive information about the science, policy, and ethical aspects of research and experimentation on the early stages of human life.

Ethics Updates: Literature on Bioethics, Cloning, and Reproductive Technologies
Links to a variety of papers, events, case studies, and Internet resources.