Related Bioethics Websites by Topic

This list of online bioethics sites is arranged alphabetically by Bioethics Topics. Use the alphabet menu to go to the general area of your topic title or scroll to find a specific title. Clicking on a topic title will take you to that bioethics topic.

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Advanced Care Planning

Advance Directives

Compassion & Choices
This site includes detailed information about advance directives, State-specific downloadable advance directives, a summary of Right-to-Die Issues and facts about end-of-life care.

Complementary Medicine

Bastyr University
In addition to information about their educational and clinical programs, this site offers features such as "A History of Naturopathic Medicine" and links to their research center for alternative medicine and AIDS.

Confidentiality

Cross-Cultural Issues and Diverse Beliefs
with an Emphasis in Pediatrics

Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders
during Anesthesia and Urgent Procedures

End-of-Life Issues

Before I Die
Includes "real-life stories" and provides key facts and in-depth information on end-of-life topics. This is the companion website to a PBS special that dealt with the medical, ethical, and social issues surrounding end-of-life care.

Growth House: Guide To Death, Dying, Grief, Bereavement, and End Of Life Resources
Excellent source. This site includes resources for life-threatening illness and end of life issues, including hospice care, home care, palliative care, pain management, death with dignity, bereavement, and related end of life topics.

Ethics Committees and Ethics Consultations

Medical College of Wisconsin's Ethics Committee Resource Page
This site includes JCAHO guidelines and resources that meet JCAHO requirements. It is intended to help committee members meet patient needs and organization needs with ethics-related concerns. The "distance learning" section includes information about running and revitalizing ethics committees.

University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics: Ethics Committee Resources
Information on resources, orienting new committee members, ethical decision making, and links to special topics.

Futility

Genetics

Human Genome Project Information
Excellent resource about the Human Genome Project. Includes general information about the Project and genetics, up-to-date information about current research, and excellent links to related sites.

HIV and AIDS

Public Health Department, Seattle-King County: HIV/AIDS Program
A comprehensive site providing major links to other HIV and AIDS related websites, testing options, reporting requirements, and community services.

Informed Consent
in the Operating Room

Interdisciplinary Team Issues

Law and Medical Ethics

Maternal/Fetal Conflict

Mistakes

Neonatal ICU Issues

Parental Decision Making

Physician-Aid-in-Dying

Euthanasia ProCon.org presents facts, laws, surveys, and pro and con statements on questions related to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.

Physician-Patient Relationship

Center for Communication in Medicine
Includes current research in communication and health outcomes, medical students and residents on breaking bad news, confidentiality, truth-telling, and informed decision making. Teaching ideas and telemedicine updates are also available.

Professionalism

The Arnold P. Goldman Foundation for Humanism in Medicine
This site posts a new message from a medical student or faculty every day! The messages are often reflections on experiences with patients and being or becoming a physician. Go to the Big Picture link for the daily message or the library for recently posted reflections.

 

American College of Physicians, Ethics Manual
Reprints of articles that appeared in Annals of Internal Medicine offering guidelines for approaching major ethical issues.

Public Health Ethics

Research Ethics

Human Subject Protections-Office of Human Subjects Research National Institutes of Health
Provides general information and guidelines about protecting human subjects, including downloadable training information, and useful resources such as the full-text of the Belmont Report.

University of Washington Human Subjects Division
Includes information about the Human Subjects Division, contact information, and downloadable forms.

Resource Allocation

Spirituality and Medicine

Student Issues

Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment

Truth-telling and Withholding Information

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