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This Research Guide focuses on sources dealing with life-and-death decisions for which there are not yet ethical codes or public consensus. Example issues include organ transplants, organ donation, euthanasia, human experimentation and genetic engineering.

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American Journal of Bioethics
This site includes numerous links to news articles and internet sites pertaining to various ethical issues in the medical and biological sciences. It also includes a searchable index of article abstracts from the American Journal of Bioethics.
Bioethics Resources on the Web
This site is produced by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It contains a list of internet resources exploring various positions on issues in bioethics.
BioethicsWeb
This site is "a gateway to evaluated, quality Internet resources relating to biomedical ethics, including ethical, social, legal and public policy questions arising from advances in medicine and biology.
Credo Reference
A collection of 100 reference tools that may be searched collectively or individually. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, statistical sources, biographical tools, thesauri, books of quotations, image collections, and more.
Ethics and Health (ETH), World Health Organization (WHO)
This site, created by The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations' specialized agency for health, explores issues in bioethics from an international perspective.
Ethics Updates
This is a site maintained by an ethics professor at University of San Diego to provide updates on current literature, both popular and professional, relating to ethics.
Kennedy Institute of Ethics: Library & Information Services
This site presents resources available for bioethics research at Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (OVRC) provides viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles related to controversial social issues.
The President's Council on Bioethics
President George W. Bush established the Council on Bioethics in November 2001, to investigate issues relating to human bioethics. This site includes information about the council and transcripts from the council meetings.