Bioethics Research
Bioethics usually denotes "the study of ethical issues arising in the practice of the biological disciplines," including all the health care professions (e.g., medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine) and the biological sciences, such as environmental ethics and "various sociopolitical moral issues, including the adverse effects on people's health of unemployment, poverty, unjust discrimination, crime, war, and torture" (quoted language is from Volume 1 of Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, s.v. "bioethics overview.")What follows is a collection of links that are primarily concerned with various topics in the field of medical ethics, with some excursions into other areas of bioethics.
Starting Points
(See also Ethics Research page)
- American College of Physicians' Ethics & Professionalism Page
- American Medical Association's Medical Ethics Page
- Bioethics Forum (from the Hastings Center Report)
- Bioethics.net: news from the American Journal of Bioethics
- Canadian Medical Association Journal's Ethics Collection
- Hastings Center's Bioethics Briefing Book
- Journal of the American Medical Association's Medical Ethics Collection
- National Institutes of Health's Bioethics Resources on the Web
- New England Journal of Medicine's Medical Ethics Collection
- PubMed (a service of the National Library of Medicine)
- Yahoo! Directory: Bioethics
On-Line Ethics Statements By Specialty
- Anesthesiology: American Society of Anesthesiologists
- Cardiology: Conflict-of-Interest Disclosure Toolkit
- Internal medicine: American College of Physicians
- Medicine, general: American Medical Association
- Neurology: American Academy of Neurology - see also Code of Professional Conduct (pdf) & Practice Guidelines
- Nursing: American Nurses Association
- Obstetrics & Gynecology: American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Perioperative Nursing: Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses
- Pharmaceuticals: PhRMA - Clinical Trials, (press release), Marketing (eff. 2009) (press release & additional information)
- Pharmacists: American Pharmaceutical Association -- see Code of Ethics, Principles of Practice,Issue Briefs (pdf)
- Reproductive medicine: American Society for Reproductive Medicine (Topics of Interest)
- Surgery: American College of Surgeons; see also Oncology Group (clinical trials): Policies and Procedures, Statements on Principles
- Veterinary medicine: American Veterinary Medicine Association -- see also Policy page