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Bioethics

Databases | Government sites | University sites | Research centres | Research centres | Organisations and associations


Databases

Euroethics
European database on medical ethics. It's main concern is with ethical issues in health care and biomedical research.

NLM Gateway
Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) including the old Bioethicsline.


Government sites

Parliament of Australia. House of Representatives
Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. Inquiry into scientific, ethical and regulatory aspects of human cloning.

NHMRC ethics
Includes health & human research ethics as well as animal research ethics pages.

U.S. National Institutes of Health. Bioethics Resources on the Web
Academic Centers and Educational Sites includes sections on academic centers and programs, educational sites and resources, and tutorials, case studies, and courses page.
Bioethics and the NIH includes Offices and programs, research resources, bioethics documents, educational opportunities, funding for bioethics research, funded training courses and publications.
Tutorials, Case Studies, and Courses includes research ethics and human subjects research tutorials, medical ethics tutorials, course web pages, and short educational and training courses.
Other Federal Resources including Federal Register, Publications, and Regulations, Agencies, Committees, and Offices, Research Ethics, human genome project and genetic screening.
Specific Topics like genetics, research ethics, and medicine and healthcare.


University sites

University of Sydney Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine

Georgetown University - U.S. National Bioethics Advisory Commission

Karolinska Institute
A comprehensive list of links on ethics in biomedicine.

Monash University. Centre for Human Bio-ethics

University of Newcastle Human Research Ethics

U.S. Academic Centers and Educational Sites


Research centres

Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Includes the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature.


Organisations and associations

Australian Medical Association
Professional Bioethics Organisations