Resources
Founded in 1969, the Hastings Center is a research institution focused on ethics in healthcare, medicine, the environment, and biotechnology. The center is best known as the publisher of Hastings Center Report and IRB: Ethics & Human Research, which features scholarship and commentary in bioethics. Both are published six times per year. The Report also periodically features special reports, published as supplements, from the center's research projects.
The American Journal of Bioethics
Founded in 1993, the American Journal of Bioethics is a peer-reviewed journal providing clinical, legal, academic, scientific, religious and broad community-at-large with a rapid but comprehensive debate of issues in bioethics. Its sister site, bioethics.net, provides up-to-date bioethics news culled from hundreds of newspapers.
A peer-reviewed journal publishing original articles related to bioethics in the developing world. Includes case studies, teaching materials, news, and legal backgrounds to bioethics.
The Journal of Clinical Ethics
A double-blind peer-reviewed journal in its 17th year of publication. The Journal is written for and by physicians, nurses, attorneys, clergy, ethicists, and others whose decisions directly affect patients.
Pharmaceutical Executive’s mission is to serve as a forum where industry leaders can exchange opinions, experiences, and insights about innovative business and marketing ideas, strategies, and tactics. An interesting view of pharmaceutical industry from the inside.
The President’s Council On Bioethics
A committee created by President George W. Bush to advise his administration on emerging technology and bioethics.
Biotechnology Industry Organization
BIO is the world's largest biotechnology organization, providing advocacy, business development and communications services for more than 1,100 members worldwide.
Information about Federal documents and funding. Publications in genetics, medicine, and research ethics.
Human Genome Project Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues
Explores ethical issues relating to the Human Genome project, such as gene testing, gene therapy, privacy, and patenting.
An organization based in Japan, Thailand, and New Zealand that produces research, publications (Journal of Asian and International Bioethics), and news related to bioethics.
Bioethics Advisory Committee Singapore
Provides reports related to personal information, genetic testing, and research involving human subjects, human tissue research, human stem cell research, reproduction, and therapeutic cloning.
Select University Programs
Center for Bioethics at Columbia University
University of Pennsylvania Bioethics
The Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University
Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
Ethics for the Biotech Industry at St. Mary’s University
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University
Business Ethics at Wharton Business School
The Bioethics Centre at the University of Otago
------ The interface between science and ethics is a notoriously gray area where intended and unintended consequences surface, and unique and unexpected outcomes emerge. Given the rapid and unrelenting advances in biotechnology and medicine, it is imperative to consider their ethical, legal, social, and policy implications.
