PHILTAR
Bioethics/Medical Ethics
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  • Ag Bioethics Forum
    On-line journal which interprets ‘bioethics’ very widely, including environmental as well as medical matters.
  • American Journal of Ethics in Medicine
    On-line journal, edited by,and primarily for, medical students.
  • Bioethics
    Home page of a course on bioethics, including an outline, notes, case studies and a study guide. Although primarily concerned with bioethics, the course also includes materials relating to broader issues within moral philosophy.
  • Bioethics: an introduction
    A helpful and expanding introduction to the area. The ‘list of papers’ link gives access to a wide range of materials.
  • British Medical Journal
    On-line access to the BMJ. Links include ‘Collected resources’ which has a special ethics section.
  • Community Ethics
    The on-line newsletter of the Consortium Ethics Program.
  • Ethics Updates (Reproductive Technology section)
    There is a lot of material here on a wide variety of aspects of reproductive technology, especially cloning, as well as links to a wide variety of other relevant sites.
  • Euroethics Database
    The way into a substantial and expanding database (with other links) on biomedical ethics in European Union countries.
  • Health Care Ethics
    A good introduction to the subject via lecture notes and case studies. Also links to a wide range of useful resources.
  • Human Genome Project Publications
    A listing of publications available on-line, plus links, including one to a separate list of materials relating to ethical, legal and social issues arising out of the project.
  • Medical Decision Making
    Home page of this journal which ‘focuses on systematic approaches to decisions about the clinical care of patients.’ Abstracts only available on-line, and the emphasis is on the technical rather than the ethical.
  • News in Bioethics and Biotechnology
    This site ‘contains the combined bimonthly news sections topic by topic from the Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics, Vol 5+ (1995+) and the Eubios Ethics Institute NewsletterVol 1-4 (1991- 1994).’ A well-organised archive with items large and small.