Resource Links
These links are provided as a convenience to ASBH members and visitors to our Web site. Listing of links on these pages does not imply endorsement or sponsorship of those sites. If you would like to suggest a link to be added to this list, please email us.
Online Texts and Resources
Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments - Final Report
http://ryker.eh.doe.gov/ohre/roadmap/achre/index.html
ACHRE was created in 1994 to investigate and report on the use of human beings as subjects of federally funded research using ionizing radiation. It is an intensive inquiry into the history of government-sponsored human radiation experiments and intentional environmental releases of radiation that occurred between 1944 and 1974.
Belmont Report
http://helix.nih.gov:8001/ohsr/mpa/belmont.phtml
This seminal 1979 Report on Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research was prepared by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research.
Bioethics for Clinicians
http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/series/bioethic.htm
Bioethics for Clinicians is a series intended to elucidate key concepts in bioethics and to help clinicians to integrate bioethical knowledge into daily practice. These articles are written by scholars in medicine, ethics and law and are published on a monthly basis in Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Case Consultation by La Puma and Schiedermayer
http://www.mcw.edu/bioethics/ce/lap-sch.html
"Case Consultation" is the first chapter of the book, "Ethics Consultation: A Practical Guide" by John La Puma, MD, and David Schiedermayer, MD.
Doctor-Assisted Suicide
http://web.lwc.edu/administrative/library/suic.htm
Doctor-Assisted Suicide--a guide to WEB Sites and the Literature--is a comprehensive, current Web gathering of information about DAS, both pro and con.
Duty and Healing: Foundations of a Jewish Bioethic
http://www.mcgill.ca/CTRG/bfreed/
Duty and Healing is a book-length essay by the late Benjamin Freedman PhD exploring those ethical issues commonly encountered in clinical situations, by means of traditional Jewish sources.
MCW Bioethics
http://www.mcw.edu/bioethics/
The MCW Bioethics Online Service is an information resource of the Center for the Study of Bioethics and the Office of Research, Technology and Information (ORTI) of the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW).
Medbioworld: Bioethics Journals
http://www.medbioworld.com/med/journals/ethics.html
SHHV-SBC Task Force on Standards for Bioethics Consultation
http://www.mcw.edu/bioethics/DISDRFT4.html
The Task Force was comprised of twenty-one scholars in the field of health care ethics, health care, and health policy. Additionally, representatives from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Hospital Association (AHA), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the College of Chaplains, and the American Association of Critical Ca re Nurses (AACN) served on this Task Force (SHHV and SBC were two of the societies that consolidated into ASBH).
University of Tennessee Knoxville
http://web.utk.edu/~philosop/
Graduate Program in Philosophy with a concentration in Medical Ethics
When Death Is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context
http://wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/bioethics/WDIS.html
The New York State Task Force on Life and the Law report and supplement: "When Death Is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context" are now available on-line.
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