Achoo Internet Health Care Directory: This is meant to serve as a search engine for health care issues. I have not checked it out yet, but it seems useful.
Genetics and Ethics, a listing of resources on this prepared by Bryn Williams-Jones of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University.
University
of Buffalo Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health
Care: The home page says that this "is an interdisciplinary
academic center of the University at Buffalo. The Center draws upon a
wide range of individuals from various health care and academic
institutions in the Buffalo N.Y. area." However, the link to "Library of Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Texts and other documents from a variety of sources around the
world" might be of interest to people more widely. See especially the following (mostly quoted from their page):
Benjamin Freedman PhD, McGill University, has made his new work on
bioethics and Judaism, "Duty and Healing:
Foundations of a Jewish Bioethic" available in its entirety
exclusively on the World Wide Web.
The New York State Task Force on Life and the Law has produced a
number of reports over the past several years. The latest is an
extensive review of
Assisted Suicide & Euthanasia. The full text of the report is
available here courtesy of the New York State Department of Health
Gopher.
A wide variety of Bioethics Texts
are found on the Medical College of Wisconsin Bioethics Online system.
This includes "Case Consultation" by John La Puma & David Schiedermayer
which is a full on-line version of their guide to clinical ethics
consultation. "Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?" is a book
written by Kenneth V. Iserson. "Help for the Living: Organ, Tissue and
Whole Body Donation," the third chapter of this book is included in MCW
Bioethics Texts. "Practical Ethics for Resident Physicians: A Short
Reference Manual" by Charles Junkerman and David Schiedermayer is designed
to be a quick reference for housestaff, originally written for use at the
Medical College of Wisconsin.
Law and
Ethics for Doctors in Victoria was designed as a practical guide
to significant ethical obligations and legal requirements which today
accompany the practice of medicine in Australia (provided by Monash
University). It includes an extensive overview of medical ethics
theory and principle in the first section: "Ethical Principles and the
Doctor."
Catholic Encyclicals related to bioethics include Pope
John Paul II's
1995 Encyclical entitled "On the Value and Inviolability of Human
Life," and the
1991 Enclyclical entitled "On Combatting Abortion and Euthanasia."
The 1995 document is a very large work which utilizes hypertext
extensively, particularly in the references. These are made available
by American University.
The Genetic Privacy Act and Commentary by George J. Annas, Leonard H.
Glantz, Patricia A. Roche, Health Law Department, Boston University School
of Public Health. The Genetic Privacy Act and Commentary is also the
Final Report of a project entitled "Guidelines for Protecting Privacy of
Information Stored in Genetic Data Banks" which was funded by the Ethical,
Legal & Social Implications of the Human Genome Project.
