Ethical/Moral Decision Making Sites

• Approaching Ethics (an outline of various ways to approach a decision provided by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics)
• Decisions and Ethics Center at Stanford University
• Doing Good and Avoiding Evil: Principles and Reasoning of Applied Ethics, Lisa H. Newton, Ph.D.
• Ethical Decision Making Model Dealing with Genetic Disorders
• A Framework for Ethical Decision-Making, by Dr. Michael McDonald (Director of the Center for Applied Ethics)
• A Framework for Universal Principles of Ethics by Larry Colero
• How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living, by Rushworth M. Kidder

Legal Resources

Legal Clinic for the Elderly - Wake Forest University - School of Law

Biomedical & Health Care Ethics Resources
Publications On-Line

• American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine, "Where We Stand" (position papers)
• Annals of Internal Medicine has lots of articles available on-line. Go to their Search page, under "search in" select "Annals" and type in "ethics" (for example)
• Bioethics: An Introduction, by Michael Burnham and Rod Mitchell
• Bioethics Examiner, from the University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics
• Bioethics Online Service (Medical College of Wisconsin)
• Canadian Medical Association's Bioethics for Clinicians series
• Biomed-II-Project: European Database Network -- Ethics in Medicine, Health Care and Health Professions
• Biomedical Ethics: Newsletter of the European Network for Biomedical Ethics
• Community Ethics: The Newsletter of the Consortium Ethics Program
• Creating, Patenting and Marketing of New Forms of Life, by Manfred Davidmann
• Deciding about CPR: Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) Orders A Guide for Patients and Families Courtesy of NYS Department of Health

• Ethics Committee Core Curriculum: An Orientation Manual for Ethics Committee Members (from University of Buffalo)
• Ethics Manual Fourth Edition, American College of Physicians
• Ethics Updates (Provides updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relate to ethics) Edited by Lawrence M. Hinman
• Gene Enhancements' Thorny Ethical Traits
• The Gene Letter (published by The Shriver Center)
• Letter to an ethicist: resuscitative interventions John J. Quinlan, MD; William A. Cook, MD, FRCSC
• Medical Ethics Articles, from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
• The National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
• Readings in Pediatric Medical Ethics Regarding Circumcision
• Standards for Bioethics Consultation (Discussion Draft of the SHHV-SBC Task Force)
• The Virtual Hospital (Medical Database)

Caregiver - Patient Relationship Papers

§          "Restoring the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship" J.R. Cooper, Medical Reporter

§          "The Doctor-Patient Relationship: Does it really matter?" J. Hughes

§          "Patient-Doctor Relationship in Parkinson's Disease" by Robert G. Feldman, M.D.

• Heritage Foundation on Restoring the DPR
• Enhancing Physician-Patient Rapport by Lewis Owen Amack

Disability and Decision Making Capacity Sites

• Dementia Resources
• The ARC: A mental retardation site
• ABA Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly
• NYS Family Decision-Making Bill
• Two Way Communication: The Patient-Doctor Relationship in Parkinson's Disease by Robert G. Feldman, M.D.

Bioethics Meta-Sites

• Ethics Updates editor, Lawrence Hinman
• Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana
• Canadian Bioethics Society
• Bioethics Resources from UPenn's Center for Bioethics
• Bioethics Resources from University of British Columbia
• Bioethics Resources listed at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden
• Bioethics Resources at MedPharm
• Bioethics Resources at MCW
• Nursing Ethics Network
• Topical Bibliographies from Eubios Institute

Organ Transplantation

§          Organ Transplant and Brain Death News, Eubios Journal, Japan, Abstracts since 1994

§          Transplant Ethics at Yale

§          FAQ for the transplant email list

§          TransWeb Transplantation Information

§          International Network for the Definition of Death and their Brain Death Page

§          Transplant-related Policies and Articles

·          "The Law (UK) Commission's Proposals on Mental Capacity and the Legality of Elective Ventilation for Transplantation Purposes" by M.E. Rodgers

·          University of Chicago Transplant Policies

Additional Topics

§          North Carolina Medical Society

§          Alzheimer Web

§          Biotechnology Resources

§          Careers in Bioethics

§          Codes of Ethics Online: Health Care

§          Cloning

·          Cloning: A Special Report in New Scientist: Planet Science
Cloning: A Step Too Far? -- a view from the Church of Scotland
Proposed Canadian "Human Reproductive and Genetic Technologies Act"
Recent news stories on cloning from Yahoo!
"Human Cloning Isn't as Scary as It Sounds," by Robert Wachbroit, The Washington Post. Sunday, March 2, 1997
"The Key: When Life Begins," by Nancy J. Duff, The Washington Post. Sunday, March 2, 1997

• Complementary Medicine Home Page (Dr. Bower's)
• DNA Banking

·         Banking DNA Evidence (Canadian Department of Justice)
DNA Banking: A Fact Sheet For Families
DNA Banking and DNA Databanking by Academic and Commercial Laboratories, by J.E. McEwen and P.R. Reilly
The Genetic Privacy Act (U.S.)
Statement on Storage and Use of Genetic Materials by the American College of Medical Genetics Storage of Genetics Materials Committee)

• The Doctor's Dilemma: Essentials of Medical Ethics
• Ethical/Moral Decision Making
• Euthansasia: "A Starting Point for euthanasia information and informed comment."
• Genetics & Ethics, Compiled by Bryn Williams-Jones at the UBC Centrr for Applied Ethics
• The Human Genome Project at Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications
• International Calendar of Bioethics Events
• long-term Care and Home Care Ethics
• Medical Ethics -- Where Do You Draw the Line? (from Annenberg/CPB)
• Teaching the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project
• Yahoo search for key-word "bioethics"
• Yahoo search for key-words "health care ethics"