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Bioethics
Actionbioscience
ActionBioscience.org is an education resource of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, aiming to promote literacy. The site provides peer-reviewed articles on issues related to seven bioscience challenges: environment, biodiversity, genomics, biotechnology, evolution, new frontiers in science, and bioscience education. In addition, the web site provides educators with original lessons and other resources to enhance bioscience teaching. Select articles are translated into Spanish. The site was chosen as the 2003 best biology site by Scientific American and the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse of the U.S. Dept. of Education honored it with the Digital Dozen Award for quality content in 2002.
http://www.actionbioscience.org/
The
American Society for Law, Medicine, and Ethics
Non-profit educational and
research organization devoted to critical thought in health law, medicine,
bioethics and patient care. ASLME offers 2 nationally known peer-reviewed
journals, as well as national conferences on emerging topics in law and
medicine. http://www.aslme.org/
Bioethics.Net
Virtual Library
Sponsored by the University
of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics. http://www.med.upenn.edu/bioethic/cgi/none.cgi
Bioethics
Resources
The Center for Bioethics
Virtual Library provides direct links to many educational and practical
resources in bioethics, health care reform, and death and dying issues. http://www.med.upenn.edu/bioethics/outreach/bioforbegin/resources.html
Centre
for Bioethics
Sponsored by the Clinical
Research Institute of Montreal. http://www.ircm.qc.ca/bioethique/english/index.html
Center
for Bioethics and Health Law
Program at University of
Pittsburgh. http://www.pitt.edu/~bioethic/
Center
for Biomedical Ethics
Sponsored by Case Western
Reserve University. http://www.cwru.edu/med/bioethics/bioethics.html
Ethics
in Medicine
University of Washington
School of Medicine’s effort to integrate bioethics education into medical
school curriculum. http://eduserv.hscer.washington.edu/bioethics/
Kennedy
Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University
Offers news, publications,
resources, and events relating to ethical perspectives on major policy
issues. http://www.georgetown.edu/research/kie/
National
Bioethics Advisory Commission
Advances in law and policy
relating to bioethics by the Federal Commission created in 1995. http://bioethics.gov/general.html
University
of Virginia’s Center for Biomedical Ethics
Dedicated to identifying,
analyzing, and resolving issues is bioethics. http://www.med.virginia.edu/medicine/inter-dis/bio-ethics/ |
