BIOL/PHIL 305 - Ethics, Science, Medicine, Tech: Websites

Excellent resource with news and links to journal articles coming out in Bioethics field. If you find an article here that is not full text, try to get it from the library search engine!

Report from the national commission for the protection of human subjects of biomedical and behavioral research

How has COVID-19 influenced the goals of bioethics or how society should view the importance of bioethics?

Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) and other genetic testing can be viewed ethically through many perspectives. The following link is a great resource that incorporates Egoism, Utilitarianism and Libertarianism.

NOVA article: When I was born, the doctors couldn't tell my parents what I was: They couldn't tell if I was a boy or a girl.

Health Information Privacy (HIPA) guidelines from the US department of health and human services.

Documentary about Henrieta Lacks, whose cells were taken without permission and are now immortalized in medical research.

BBC news segment about cloning animals.

Publications from Nature the discuss this research and the implications on "trusting" not only the data/results/conclusions but also the process of a "peer-reviewed" publication.

Brief article on stem cell engineering from the platform Science Alert, which aims "to publish trustworthy and easily accessible science news for a diverse audience across the globe."

When limited resources exist, how do we decide *who* gets the resources?

2019 article tracing the history of human and animal relationships and ethics.

Full-text article on animal rights.

Peter Singer is a famous and controversial bioethicist who has written on Animal Rights and ethics.

"The Centre is establishing an Archive that aims to be a specialist online resource of papers on animal ethics;
a unique facility for researchers, teachers, and commentators; comprehensive in providing the most important academic papers in the field, and inclusive of theoretical and applied aspects of animal ethics, as well as commentaries on topical issues."

USAFacts provides a data-driven portrait of the American population, US governments’ finances, and governments’ impact on society. We are a nonpartisan, not-for-profit civic initiative without a political agenda. We provide vital spending, revenue, demographic, and performance information as a free public service and are committed to maintaining and expanding our available data in the future.

The Conversation is a nonprofit, independent news organization dedicated to unlocking the knowledge of experts for the public good.

"Our mission is to address fundamental ethical issues in the areas of health, health care, life sciences research, and the environment as they affect individuals, communities, and societies."

The research agenda and recommendations of Brookings's experts are rooted in open-minded inquiry and our 300+ scholars represent diverse points of view. Research topics cover foreign policy, economics, development, governance and metropolitan policy.