The Creighton University Center for Health Policy and Ethics
- http://chpe.creighton.edu/
- The CHPE exists to advance Creighton University's mission as a Catholic and Jesuit comprehensive university committed to excellence. The Center takes a leadership role in shaping the future of health policy and health care ethics through research, teaching, and service. The Center helps professionals, policy makers, and the general public clarify ethical issues and supports them in efforts to make health care and health policy more just and humane.
General Resources
- Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach (eBook)
- Healthcare Standards
- National Guideline Clearinghouse
- Public Health Observatory Handbook of Health Inequalities Measurement
- Encyclopedia of Bioethics
- Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine
- Encyclopedia of Ethics
- Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society
- Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- New Catholic Encyclopedia
- Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
- Encyclopedia of Religious Rites, Rituals, and Festivals
- More Routledge Religion Resources
Journals
- Ethics journals on the web
- Newsletter
- Center for Health Policy and Ethics Focus
Ethics Databases
Don't forget: Medline and CINAHL have links above, just below the banner.
- ETHX on the Web
- A bibliographic database on bioethics and professional ethics. Includes journal articles, book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, books, audio-visuals, and news articles relating to bioethics and professional ethics. Produced by the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRCBL) of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University.
- ATLA Religion Database
- Covers both the popular magazines and scholarly journal
- Academic Search Premier
- A general periodical index covering scholarly journals, magazine and some newspapers
- PsycINFO
- An index to the literature of psychology
- Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
- Covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and life
- Humanities International Index
- Covers journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities.
- Philosopher's Index
- Covers scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters.
Internet Resources for Bioethics
The Hastings Center
- The Hastings Center addresses fundamental ethical issues in the areas of health, medicine, and the environment as they affect individuals, communities, and societies.
- www.thehastingscenter.org/
Kennedy Institute of Ethics
- The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, established at Georgetown University, is a teaching and research center offering ethical perspectives on major policy issues. The Institute houses the most extensive library of ethics in the world, the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature and conducts regular seminars and courses in bioethics.
- www.georgetown.edu/research/kie/
The Linacre Centre
- The Linacre Centre exists to promote understanding of Catholic teaching on abortion, assisted conception, advance directives, contraception, euthanasia, genetic engineering and other issues in biomedical ethics.
- www.linacre.org
National Catholic Bioethics Center (formerly Pope John Center)
- Research at the Pope John Center consists in the systematic study and investigation into Catholic moral teaching and its application to issues in contemporary biomedical ethics. Several types of research are conducted by experts and scholars in a variety of disciplines including medicine, law, theology, and philosophy.
- www.ncbcenter.org/home.html
National Bioethics Advisory Commission
- The National Bioethics Advisory Commission will provide advice and make recommendations on bioethical issues arising from research on human biology and behavior, and the applications, including the clinical applications, of that research.
- www.bioethics.gov
