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Ethics in Science and Medicine

Paul Miller

Reference

W Reich, ed., Encyclopedia of Bioethics
R Chadwick, ed., Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics

Books

Bioethics

General/Introductory:

P Singer, ed., Applied Ethics, O.U.P., 1986
T Beauchamp and J Childress, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, O.U.P., 1994

Other:

R Veatch, A Theory of Medical Ethics, Basic Books, 1981
E Pellegrino and D Thomasma, A Philosophical Basis of Medical Practice: Towards a Philosophy and Ethic of the Healing Professions, O.U.P., 1981
E Pellegrino and D Thomasma, The Virtues in Medical Practice, O.U.P., 1998
A Jonsen, The Birth of Bioethics, O.U.P., 1998
R Faden and T Beauchamp, A History and Theory of Informed Consent, O.U.P., 1986
A Buchanan and D Brock, Deciding for Others: the Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making, C.U.P., 1989
T Beauchamp and R Veatch, eds., Ethical Issues in Death and Dying, Prentice-Hall, 1996
S Sherwin, No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care, Temple U.P., 1992
S Wolf, Feminism and Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction, O.U.P., 1996

Research Ethics

General/Introductory:

R Levine, Ethics and Regulation of Clinical Research, Yale U.P., 1986
P McNeill, Ethics and Politics of Human Experimentation, C.U.P., 1993
B Brody, The Ethics of Biomedical Research: an International Perspective, O.U.P., 1998
J Kahn, A Mastroianni and J Sugarman, Beyond Consent: Seeking Justice in Research, O.U.P., 1998

Other:

P Freund, ed., Experimentation with Human Subjects, Braziller, 1970
G Annas and M Grodin, The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation, O.U.P., 1992
J Jones, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, Free Press, 1993
S Lederer, Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War, Johns Hopkins U.P., 1995
A Hornblum, Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at the Holmesburg Prison, Routledge, 1998
M Grodin and L Glantz, Children as Research Subjects: Science, Ethics and Law, O.U.P., 1994
G Annas and S Elias, Gene Mapping: Using Law and Ethics as Guides, O.U.P., 1992
D Kelves, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Users of Human Heredity, Harvard U.P., 1995
D Kelves and L Hood, The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project, Harvard U.P., 1992
M Mulkay, The Embryo Research Debate: Science and the Politics of Reproduction, C.U.P., 1997
P Singer, ed., Embryo Experimentation, C.U.P., 1990
M Nussbaum and C Sunstein, eds., Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning, Norton, 1998
L Silver, Remaking Eden: Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World, Avon, 1997

Journals

Bioethics
Bulletin of Medical Ethics
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
Hastings Center Report
IRB: A Review of Human Subjects Research
Journal of Clinical Ethics
Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
Journal of Medical Ethics
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

Search tools/bibliographies

National Library of Medicine's Databases, including BIOETHICSLINE and MEDLINE
http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/
National Library of Medicine's Current Bibliographies in Medicine, Ethical Issues in Research Involving Human Subjects
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/hum_exp.html

You might also try:

Ethics Updates
http://ethics.acusd.edu/
Georgetown University's National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/
HealthWeb: Bioethics
http://www.siumed.edu/lib/hw/Bioethics.html
MedWebPlus: Bioethics
http://www.medwebplus.com/subject/Bioethics.html
The Medical College of Wisconsin's Bioethics Online Service
http://www.mcw.edu/bioethics/bos.html

Popular Media

Bioethics.net (NBC/University of Pennsylvania)
http://www.bioethics.net/
Ethics Matters (CNN/University of Minnesota)
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/bioethics/

Bioethics Societies

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
http://www.asbh.org
American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics
http://www.aslme.org/
Canadian Bioethics Society
http://www.bioethics.ca/
International Association of Bioethics
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/ethics/iab.htm
Environmental Bioethics Interest Group of the International Assocation of Bioethics
http://netserv.unmc.edu/PSM/bee/beehtml.html
Society for Bioethics and Classical Philosophy
http://www.mcw.edu/bioethics/sbcp.html

Governmental Agencies/Policies/Reports

Australian National Health and Medical Research Council's National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Research Involving Humans
http://www.health.gov.au/nhmrc/publicat/humans/contents.htm
Canadian National Council on Ethics in Human Research
http://www.ncehr-cnerh.org/
Canadian Tri-Council Policy Statement - Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans
http://www.nserc.ca/programs/ethics/english/index.htm
Danish Council of Ethics
http://www.etiskraad.dk/english/english.htm
Indian Council on Medical Research - Statement of General Principles in Biomedical Research involving Human Subjects
http://icmr.nic.in/vsicmr/ethicalidx.htm
New Zealand's Health Research Council - Guidelines on Ethics in Health Research
http://www.hrc.govt.nz/ethicgui.htm
South African Medical Research Council's Guidelines on Ethics for Medical Research
http://www.mrc.ac.za/Ethics/ethics.htm
Swedish Medical Research Council's Guidelines for Ethical Evaluation of Medical Research Involving Human Subjects
http://www.mfr.se/mfr/publikationer/eng_riktlinjer.html
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 45 CFR 46 - Protection of Human Research Subjects
http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/humansubjects/guidance/45cfr46.htm
U.S. National Bioethics Advisory Committee
http://bioethics.gov/cgi-bin/bioeth_counter.pl
U.S. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research - Belmont Report
http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/guidelines/belmont.html
U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute's Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Human Genetics Research page
http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/ELSI/
U.S. National Institutes of Health - Office for Human Research Protections
http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/index.htm
U.S. Presidents Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments - Final Report
http://tis.eh.doe.gov/ohre/roadmap/achre/report.html

Other

Boston University's Health Law Department
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/departments/homemain.asp?DepartmentID=95
Case Western Reserve University's Center for Biomedical Ethics
http://www.cwru.edu/med/bioethics/bioethics.html
Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
http://www.bioethix.org/
Columbia University's Center for the Study of Society and Medicine
http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/cssm/
Dalhousie University's Department of Bioethics
http://www.medicine.dal.ca/bioethics
Dartmouth College's Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics
http://www.dartmouth.edu/artsci/ethics-inst/index.html
European Database on Medical Ethics
http://www.gwdg.de/~uelsner/euroeth.htm
Genetics and Ethics Resource Page
http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/brynw/index.html
Georgetown University Kennedy Institute of Ethics
http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/
Harvard University's Program on Ethical Issues in International Health Research
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu//bioethics/
The Hastings Center
http://www.thehastingscenter.org/
Johns Hopkins University's Bioethics Institute
http://www.med.jhu.edu/bioethics_institute/
King's College London - Centre of Medical Law and Ethics
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/law/research/cmle/
McGill University's Clinical Trials Research Group
http://www.mcgill.ca/ctrg/
Princeton University's Bioethics Forum
http://www.princeton.edu/~bioethic/
Project on Death in America
http://www.soros.org/death/index.htm
Stanford University's Beginning Library Research on Bioethics
http://garamond.stanford.edu/guides/bioethic.html
Stanford University's Center for Biomedical Ethics
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/scbe/
The resources pages of University of British Columbia's Center for Applied Ethics
http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources/biomed/
University of Minnesota's Center for Bioethics
http://www.med.umn.edu/bioethics
University of Oxford's Centre for Ethics (ETHOX)
http://www.ethox.org.uk/default.htm
University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics
http://www.med.upenn.edu/bioethic
University of Pittsburgh's Center for Bioethics and Health Law
http://www.pitt.edu/~bioethic/
University of Toronto's Joint Centre for Bioethics
http://www.utoronto.ca/jcb
University of Virginia's Center for Biomedical Ethics
http://www.med.virginia.edu/medicine/inter-dis/bio-ethics/
U.S. National Institutes of Health Bioethics Resources Page
http://www.nih.gov/sigs/bioethics/index.html