Affymetrix Resources: Genetics and Society - Affymetrix believes informed public discussion will help ensure that beneficial uses of genetic information are available to society.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bioethics, Inc. - Commercial organisation providing bioethics, clinical ethics, research ethics consultancy services.
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.
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.
Bioetica en la Red - Spanish language bioethics site, documentation, news, books,
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?
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.
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.
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.
Centre for Human Bioethics - Monash University's One-Stop bioethics site. Bioethics degree programs, Bioethics Resources Centre Center, Bioethics research.
Council of Europe Bioethics Division - European Bioethics Convention, Human Rights & Biomedicine human cloning, organ transplantation, biomedical research, human embryo & foetus, human genetics, xenotransplantation,
GenEthics Consortium Case Literature - selected case studies for quarterly discussion by the GenEthics Consortium at the Human Genome Research Institute.
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.
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.
International Association of Bioethics - official website of this international bioethics umbrella organisation, hosted at the University of the Philippines.
Islamic Views on Medical Ethics - Islamic views on many medical ethics issues including organ donation, cloning, euthanasia, abortion , fertility, sex change operations.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics - Bioethics Center at Catholic Santa Clara University, offers articles, cases, briefings, and dialogue in all fields of applied ethics. Focus on: Biotechnology and Health Care Ethics, K-12 Character Education, Business Ethics, Public Policy and Governmental Ethics, and Technology Ethics.
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.
Nordic Committee on Bioethics - A committee under the Nordic Council of Ministers, which identifies ethical problems arising in connection with genetic engineering and biotechnological research.
NursingEthics.ca - Canadian nursing ethics website. Highly informative and professional.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. (September 1, 2000)
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