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Medical Ethics and Law

Print Indexes

  • Social Sciences Index REF INDEX A3.S62
    Also available at Englewood Cliffs.

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Handbooks

  • Encyclopedia of bioethics Reference Room O'Toole Library QH 332 .E52 1995

Unless indicated otherwise, all of the above print resources are located at the O'Toole Library, Jersey City Campus.

Selected Internet Resources

  • American Journal of Bioethics With current news, links to journal articles, bibliographies, Internet links, and a Bioethics for Beginners section, this site from the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania is a good starting place for research on issues such as cloning, abortion, assisted suicide, research, and other ethical topics in science and medicine
  • Biomedical & Health Care Ethics Resources on WWW from the Center for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia.
  • Gold Standard Multimedia Network's Integrated Medical Curriculum has an excellent interactive module on medical ethics. Choose "Doctor's Dilemma" from the main menu. Free registration is required.
  • Health Hippo from Findlaw, is a major resource for health-related laws and policy. Each of their subdivisions contains federal regulation from the US Code and CFR, current legislation and testimony, news and reports, and links to other sites. For information on the law and ethics of assisted suicide, look under their "Advanced Directives" heading.
  • Scirus A search engine that searches only screened educational and scientific sites and journal articles in Elsevier Science journals. Links will take you to the site or to the article in Science Direct.
  • President's Council On Bioeithics Topics of concern for the council that advise the President on bioethical issues that may emerge in biomedical science and technology in the United States. Provides transcripts of council's meetings.

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