FYE 1050: Medical Ethics
- Books in the
Main Stacks - Citing Your
Resources - Dictionaries &
Encyclopedias -
Health/Medicine
Databases -
Medicine
Web Sites - NoodleBib
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Opposing Viewpoints
Database - Periodicals
- Taking
Sides - Web
Sites - Evaluate Your Information
Instruction Class
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Ahia, C.E. (2003). Legal and ethical dictionary for mental health professionals. Lanham, BD: University Press of America.
Ref. KF3828.A934 2003
Animals and their legal rights. (1990). Washington (D.C.): Animal
Welfare Institute.
A collection of animal rights laws from 1641-1990.
Ref. KF3841.L4 1990
Bioethics thesaurus. (1990). Washington, DC: Georgetown University.
Ref. QH332.B536 1990
Butler, J.D., & Walbert, D.F. (Eds.). (1992).
Abortion, medicine, and the law. New York: Facts on File.
A collection of articles by various authors on the abortion issue and divided
into 3 categories: law, medicine, and ethics.
Ref. KF9315.A93 1992
Costa, M. (1991).
Abortion : A reference handbook. Santa Barbara, Calif.:
ABC-CLIO, Inc.
Provides a chronological history of the abortion issue, descriptions of the
procedure, biographical sketches of significant people, a directory of
organizations and more.
Ref. HQ767.5.U5 C67 1991
Does it run in the family?. (1997). New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers
University Press.
A description of DNA testing and what genetic disorders can be uncovered through
testing.
Ref. RB155.6.T45 1997
Encyclopedia of bioethics. (1995). New York: Macmillan Reference
USA.
Includes articles and bibliographies on a wide range of medical ethics topics.
Ref. QH332.E52 1995
Keyguide to information sources in animal rights. (1989). London:
Mansell Pub.
Bibliographies to literature on animal rights.
Ref. Z7164.C45 M36 1989
Post, S.G. (Ed.). (2004). Encyclopedia of bioethics. New York: Macmillan Reference USA.
Ref. QH 332.E52 2004
Triche, C.W. (1975).
The euthanasia controversy. New York: Whitston Publishing.
Bibliography of literature on euthanasia.
Ref. Z6675.E95 T74
Taking Sides
Taking sides is a series of books which address various controversial issues
in society by presenting brief articles supporting opposite sides of each issue.
These books can be located in the reference section.
Ref. HN17.5.T35
Some of the more relevant volumes to this class are the following:
Bioethical Issues
Ref HN17.5.T35 B56 2001
Family and Personal Relationships
Ref HQ536.T35 2005
Health and Society
Ref HN17.5.T35 H43 2001
Moral Issues
Ref HN17.5.T35 M67 2002
Political Issues
Ref HN17.5.T35 P65 2001
Psychological Issues
Ref HN17.5.T35 P79 2002
Social Issues
Ref HN17.5.T35 S63 2003
Books in the Circulating Collection
Bioethics
Medical
Ethics
Abortion
Reproductive Technology (Assisted Reproduction)
Stem Cells
Cloning
Infanticide
(Letting Impaired Newborns Die)
Brain Death
(Coma)
Euthanasia
(Requests to Die)
Assisted
Suicide
Animal Rights
(Animal Research Subjects)
Human Experimentation in Medicine (Human Research Subjects)
Involuntary Treatment (Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment)
Genetic
Disorders (Genetic Disease)
Periodicals
Search the Journal Locator for online availability of these journals.
American Journal of Bioethics
Bioethics
Ethics
Hastings Center Report
Medical Ethics Advisor
Web Sites
Bioethics Resources on the Web
http://www.nih.gov/sigs/bioethics/
A government web site run by the National
Institutes for Health (NIH).
The President's Council on Bioethics
http://www.bioethics.gov/
See what the current presidential administration's
positions are.
See also the Health/Medicine Selected Web Links.