Ethics in Nursing--College of St. Catherine Libraries

CLICNET: The online catalog of the College of St. Catherine and the other CLIC libraries, to locate books and audio-visual materials.
MNCAT: The online catalog of the University of Minnesota.

Finding Journal Articles

Journal List

Bioethics, Nursing Ethics and Medical Ethics Journals: A list of journals found at CSC and other local libraries. List also contains indexing and holdings information.

Journal Indexes and Online Databases

BIOETHICS subset on Medline PubMed: MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, bioethics, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the pre-clinical sciences. MEDLINE contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,300 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries. Searchers of PubMed may limit to the "bioethics" journal subset. Coverage is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. See Bioethics Searching on PubMed for search tips.

BIOETHICS ONLINE SERVICE

A resource provided by the Medical College of Wisconsin. It is a collection of abstracts of journal articles and other sources from the bioethics literature. All entries are abstracted.
CINAHL

An index to major journals in nursing, occupational therapy and other allied health fields. See the Guide to Cinahl for search assistance.

General Web Resources and Overviews

The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (http://www.asbh.org)
From this professional society of individuals, organizations, and institutions interested in
bioethics and humanities is a website with a helpful list of links for on-line resources in ethics, including academic centers and programs, government and public policy, history, law, science and technology.

The American Society for Law, Medicine, and Ethics (http://www.aslme.org)
From this professional organization, a site that highlights research, publications and current activities of the organization and its members.

The Center for Bioethics (http://www.bioethics.umn.edu)
From the University of Minnesota, the Center's site offers a good list of web resources on specific ethics topics, as well as information about the Center's research and publications.

The Center for Ethics and Human Rights (http://www.ana.org/ethics/index.htm)
From the American Nurses Association, links on ethics news, human rights issues, and ethical issues of importance to nurses.

MacLean Center for Clincial Medical Ethics (http://ethics.bsd.uchicago.edu/us.html)
From the University of Chicago, the Center's web page offers an exhaustive list of both U.S. and international centers and institutes.

Web Resources by Topic

This list of resources is highly selective and does not include every web site related to these topics. The researcher should use caution in using and citing sources off the web. See Evaluating Information Found on the World Wide Web: a checklist to guide your use of web resources in research projects.

Topic Index

abortion / advanced directives / allocation of resources / assisted suicide / beginning of life / confidentiality / euthanasia / end of life / futility / genetic intervention / informed consent / life-sustaining treatment / medical costs /physician assisted suicide / religion / reproductive technologies / spirituality / truth-telling / whistle-blowing

Abortion: Ethical Issues of Abortion from Ethics Update (University of San Diego)
Advanced directives and living wills: Advanced Directives Resources (University of Buffalo Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care)
: Ethics in Medicine: Advanced Directives (University of Washington School of Medicine)
Assisted Suicide see Euthanasia
Beginning of life issues: Ethics in Medicine: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (University of Washington School of Medicine); Ethics in Medicine: Maternal-Child Conflict (University of Washington School of Medicine)
Confidentiality: Privacy Issues (University of Buffalo Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care); Ethics in Medicine: Confidentiality (University of Washington School of Medicine)
Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide: Assisted Suicide Bibliography (National Resource Center for Bioethics Literature); Bioethics.net: Court decisions and related links on assisted suicide (University of Pennsylvania); Ethics Update resources on Euthanasia (University of San Diego)
End of Life Decisions: Hospice and Palliative Care Resources (University of Buffalo Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care); Ethics in Medicine: End of Life (University of Washington School of Medicine)
End of Life Care (Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota); Information and Resources (Last Acts, a member organization for improving end of life care); Pain and the Law (Center for Health Law Studies, American Society of Law and Medicine)
Futility: Ethics in Medicine: Medical Futility (University of Washington School of Medicine)
Genetic intervention: Bioethics.net: Ethics & Genetics (University of Pennsylvania); Genetic Research Links (HealthWeb by Southern Illinois University School of Medicine)

Informed consent: Ethics in Medicine: Informed Consent (University of Washington School of Medicine)
Life sustaining treatment: Ethics in Medicine: Terminating Life-sustaining Treatment (University of Washington School of Medicine); Guidelines on Forgoing Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment for Adolescents (American Academy of Pediatrics)
Medical costs/allocation of resources: Ethics in Medicine: Managed Care (University of Washington School of Medicine); Managed Care Forum (American Medical Specialty Organization)

Religion and spirituality: Ethics in Medicine: Spirituality and Medicine (University of Washington School of Medicine)
Reproductive technologies: Ethics Update resources on reproductive technologies (University of San Diego); Ethical Issues of Surrogate Motherhood (American Academy of Pediatrics)
Truth-telling/Whistle-blowing: Ethics in Medicine: Mistakes (University of Washington School of Medicine); Ethics in Medicine: Truth-telling (University of Washington School of Medicine)

WWW Search Tools

For a more comprehensive search of web sites in health and medicine, use one of the search tools listed below.

Hardin Meta Directory (Hardin Health Sciences Library at the University of Iowa): A subject list of sites that contain lists of resources...a directory of directory sites.
HealthWeb (Southern Illinois University School of Medicine): A subject list of health and medicine sites.
InfoMine (University of California): A subject list of scholarly internet sites.
Medical Matrix (Medical Matrix, LLC): A subject list of health and medicine sites. Must register (free) to access.
MedWeb (Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University): A subject list of health and medicine sites.
Yahoo Health (Yahoo, Inc.): A subject index of health internet sites.

Citing Sources

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is often used as a guide for writing and citing sources. A current copy of the manual is located in the reference collection (REF BF76.6 .P83 2001). For a short guide to citing common publication types, see APA Guidelines for Citing Sources.

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The creation of this site was funded, in part, by a grant from the National Library of Medicine to the Rural Nurse Practitioner Collaborative Project. This site is maintained by staff of the College of St. Catherine Libraries