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Last Updated: June 5, 2006

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Applied Ethics


General Sites

Ethics and Public Policy Center (Washington, DC)

Association for Practical and Professional Ethics

Canadian Resource for Professional Ethics

Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions

Illinois Institute of Technology Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions

The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University

This site focuses on the connection between decision making frameworks and making decisions and includes a large number of cases and message boards for discussion. It has an extensive set of links, which are well organized and rated for their content. Be prepared; although impressively designed, this site seems to run very slowly.

Ohio University Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics

University of British Columbia Centre for Applied Ethics

This site includes an extensive set of links pertaining to various fields of applied ethics, including links on ethical decision making. They describe their mission "to bring moral philosophy into the public domain by advancing research in applied ethics, supporting courses with a significant ethical component and acting as a community resource."

 

Bioethics

The American Journal of Bioethics Online

This site provides job offerings and a bioethics bookstore, but it may be difficult to take it all in. Their mission is "to provide the clinical, legal, academic, scientific, religious and broad community-at-large with a rapid but comprehensive debate of issues in bioethics."

National Institutes of Health Bioethics Resources on the Web

NIH offers a comprehensive, well-organized listing of bioethics sites with commentary.

Academic Institutes in the United States

The Bioethics Forum of Princeton University

Center for Biomedical Ethics, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota

The Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine

Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin

The Hastings Center

John's Hopkins University Bioethics Institute

Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University

Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics

University of Buffalo Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care

University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics

University of South Carolina Institute of Human Values in Health Care

Center for Biomedical Ethics, UVA

Foreign Academic Institutes-Some with parts in English

Bioethics Research Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand

Centre for Bioethics, Clinical Research Institute of Montreal

Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University

Dossetor Health Ethics Centre at the University of Alberta

Karolinska Instatutet (Sweden)

La bioéthique à l'Université de Montréal (French)

University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics

Zentrum für medizinische Ethik: Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (German)

Health Law

American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Dalhousie University: Health Law Institute

Pittsburgh University: Center for Bioethics and Health Law

University of Liverpool & Manchester: Institute of Medicine, Law, and Bioethics

Government Sites

Comité consultatif de Bioéthique de Belgique (French)

The Danish Council of Ethics

National Bioethics Advisory Commission (United States)

President's Council on Bioethics (United States)

National Committees for Research Ethics in Norway

National Council on Ethics in Human Research (Canada)

Private Organizations

American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities

Cleveland Clinic: Department of Bioethics

Health Priorities Group

Nursing Ethics Network

Resources

Canadian Resource for Hospital Ethics Committees

European Ethics Database

MedWeb

U.S. National Library of Medicine

Transnational Institutions

UNESCO: International Bioethics Committee

Bioethics Journals

American Journal of Bioethics

American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics

Bioethics Bulletin

Biomedical Ethics

Bulletin of Medical Ethics

The Hastings Center Report

Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine

Human Research Report

Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law

Journal of Medical Ethics

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Newsletter

The Lancet

Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics

 

 Business Ethics

Bentley College: Center for Business Ethics

Business for Social Responsibility

BSR is "a membership organization for companies seeking to sustain their commercial success in ways that demonstrate respect for ethical values, people, communities, and the environment." Their site covers many topics: the environment, human rights, community involvement, etc. It describes what each topic is, explains how consideration of it is relevant to businesses, and provides examples of businesses with cutting edge ethical policies on the issue.

Canadian Resource for Business Ethics

DePaul University Institute for Business and Professional Ethics

The IBPE aims to "encourage ethical deliberation in decision-makers by stirring the moral conscience and imagination." The site has well-organized links to business and other applied ethics sites.

Gonzaga Institute of Ethics

The GIE's primary mission is to provide innovative, principle-based ethics resources and programs for the Gonzaga University community and for businesses, schools, non-profit organizations, professional groups, and government agencies in the Spokane area, the Pacific Northwest, and beyond.

International Business Ethics Institute

Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide

Loyola Marymount: The Center for Ethics and Business

Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business

Wharton Ethics Program


Engineering Ethics

The Online Ethics Center for Engineering & Science

This site covers research (human subjects, intellectual property) and engineering ethics. Its purpose is to connect engineers, scientists, and students with information regarding the ethical implications of their work. There is also a section on diversity issues, complete with cases. It has some good links, but they are hidden under the various topics.

Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism at Texas Tech University

 
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