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Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy

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United States

AcademyHealth
American Association for the History of Medicine
American College of Healthcare Executives Code of Ethics
American College of Physicians Center for Ethics and Professionalism
American College of Surgeons Ethics Page
American Medical Association
American Medical Association Institute for Ethics
American Philosophical Association
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
American Society for Law, Medicine, and Ethics
American Society for Reproductive Medicine Ethics Page
Center for Studying Health System Change
Department of Clinical Bioethics (NIH)
Department of Health and Human Services
National Cancer Institute
National Conference of State Legislatures
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Institute of Health's Bioethics Resource Site
National Medical Association
Presidents Council on Bioethics
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Veterans Health Administration National Center for Ethics in Health Care

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Canada

Canadian Bioethics Society
Canadian Council on Social Development
Canadian Healthcare Association
Canadian Institute for Health Information
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Canadian Medical Association
Canadian Philosophical Association
Canadian Society for the Study for Practical Ethics
Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada
The Fraser Institute
Health Canada
Public Health Agency of Canada
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

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British Commonwealth

Australian Government Health Ethics
Australian Medical Association
The British Academy (Humanities and Social Sciences)
British Arts and Humanities Research Board
British Medical Association
European Bioethical Research (based in Scotland)
Institute of Clinical Research
The Irish Council for Bioethics
New Zealand 's Bioethics Council
Nuffield Council on Bioethics

Royal College of Physicians

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Europe

Austrian Commission on Bioethics
Belgium: Comité consultatif de Bioéthique
Crotia: Centar Zu Bioetiku (The Institute of Philosophy and Theology)
Danish Council of Ethics
Finish National Advisory Board on Research Ethics (TENK)
Finish National Advisory Board on Healthcare Ethics
France: The National Consultative Ethics Committee for Health and Life Sciences
German National Ethics Council
Greece: The Hellenic National Bioethics Commission
Italy: Comitato nazionale per la bioetica
Netherlands: Health Council of the Netherlands
Nordic Committee on Bioethics
Norway: National Committees for Research Ethics
Portugal: National Ethics Council for life sciences
Spanish Advisory Committee on Ethics of Scientific and Technical Research
Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics

Switzerland: Commission d'Éthique de l'Academie Suisse des Sciences Médicales

Council of Europe
EurLex (The Portal to EU Law)
Europa
European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics
European Medical Association

European Patent Office

The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences

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International

International Association of Bioethics
Medical Research Council of South Africa
UNESCO
World Health Organization

World Medical Association

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General Interest

Bioethics.com

Bioethics.net
Bioethics Today
Bioethics Discussion Forum (from USC)
Bioethics for Clinicians Series (CMAJ)

Bioethics Programs and Centers

The Commonwealth Fund
David Suzuki Foundation
The Greenwall Foundation
The Hastings Center
The Kaiser Family Foundation
Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Steven Lewis Foundation

Arts and Letters Daily
BioMed Central
EpistemeLinks.com
Ethics Updates
EthicsWeb.ca
Medical Humanities
News-Medical.net
SciDev.Net
Science Daily
Science News from BIO (Biotechnology Industry Organization)

Texas Medical Center

Guide to Graduate Programs in Philosophy

Rankings of Graduate Programs in Philosophy

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Events and Calandars

Bioethics International Calandar

Philosophy Conferences, Seminars, and Calls for Papers

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Bioethics Jobs

Canada

U.S.

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Academic Jobs

Chronical of Higher Education

Jobs in Philosophy

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Religion and Bioethics

Catholic Health Association
Islamic Bioethics
The Linacre Centre (UK)
National Catholic Bioethics Center
National Institute of Judaism and Medicine

Spirituality and Medicine (from the University of Washington School of Medicine)

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Biotechnology and Genetics

American College of Medical Genetics
American Society of Human Genetics
BioTech Canada
Cambridge Genetics Knowledge Park
Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee
Center for Genetics and Society
The Convention on Biological Diversity
The Council for Responsible Genetics
Human Genome Diversity Project
Human Genome Organization (HUGO)
Human Genome Project Information
HumGen (Universite de Montreal)
International HapMap Project
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Human Genome Research Institute
Office of Biotechnology Activities (NIH)
UK Human Genetics Commission
UK Medical Research Council's Guidelines for Human Tissue and Biological Sample Use (Pdf)

UN Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights

List of Patent Offices by Nation

DeCode Genetics
Estonian Genome Project
Genome Canada

UK Biobank

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Research Ethics

Canadian Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics
Canadian National Council on Ethics in Human Research
FDA's Guidence for Institutional Review Boards and Clinical Investigators
Medical Research Council (UK)
Office for Human Research Protections (HHS)
Office of Research Integrity (HHS)
Ethical standards and procedures for research with human beings (WHO)
The Belmont Report
The Common Rule, Code of Federal Regulations Title 45, Part 46
International Guidelines from the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS)
The Nuremberg Code
Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans

The World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki

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Reference

Cambridge English Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
Oxford English Dictionary
Britannica Online Encyclopedia
MSN Encarta Online Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Smithsonian

OWL (from Purdue University)

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Fondren Library (Rice University)

Texas Medical Center Library

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Library and Information Services
Library of Congress
Medline Plus
National Library of Medicine
PubMed
The British Library

The Wellcome Trust Library

THOMAS

CRISP

Supreme Court of Canada Cases

U.S. Supreme Court

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Journals

American Journal of Bioethics
American Journal of Human Genetics
American Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics
American Journal of Managed Care
Annals of Internal Medicine
Annual Reviews: Biomedical, Physical, and Social Science Series
Bioethics (Journal of the International Association of Bioethics)
British Medical Journal
Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics
Canadian Medical Association Journal
Christian Bioethics
Genomics, Society, and Policy
Health Affairs
Health Law Perspectives
Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
Journal of Medical Ethics
JSTOR
The Lancet
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
Kluwer Journals
The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine
Nature
New England Journal of Medicine
Social Science and Medicine
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Virtual Mentor (Ethics Journal of the AMA)

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