Library: Ethics of Health Care: General

Selected Resources

Cleveland Clinic Center for Bioethics Addresses common ethical questions for practitioners, patients and caregivers
Codes of Ethics and Conduct for Healthcare Quality Professionals National Association for Healthcare Quality (2018)
Hastings Center Bioethics Briefings Contains overviews of issues in bioethics of high public interest, such as abortion, brain injury, organ transplantation, physician-assisted death, and stem cell research. The chapters, written by leading ethicists, are nonpartisan, describing topics from a range of perspectives that are grounded in good scientific and ethical facts. They each include experts to contact and resources.
Kennedy Institute of Ethics The Kennedy Institute of Ethics is a center for practically engaged ethics at Georgetown University. Established in 1971 with a founding interest in medical ethics, it is one of the oldest academic ethics centers in the world.
National Center for Ethics in Health Care From the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs. The National Center for Ethics in Health Care serves as VA's authoritative resource for addressing the complex ethical issues that arise in patient care, health care management, and research. We provide information, education, and consultation and oversee nationwide programs and quality improvement projects to help health care practitioners and administrators to understand and apply health care ethics standards.

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Bioethics resources at the National Institutes of Health
Global Health Ethics From the World Health Organization

American Dental Hygienists Association Bylaws & Ethics "These documents govern the conduct of ADHA and its members."
Council on Ethical & Judicial Affairs (CEJA) "The Principles of Medical Ethics and the Opinions of the AMA Council on Ethical & Judicial Affairs make up the AMA Code of Medical Ethics."
American Nurses Association (ANA) The American Nurses Association "is the premier organization representing the interests of the nation's 4 million registered nurses. ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting a safe and ethical work environment, bolstering the health and wellness of nurses, and advocating on health care issues that affect nurses and the public. ANA is at the forefront of improving the quality of health care for all."
American Psychological Association Ethics Office "The office supports the Ethics Committee in adjudicating ethics complaints, offers educational workshops and seminars, provides ethics consultations, and serves as a resource to members and the Association in addressing new ethical dilemmas as psychology grows and evolves as a discipline."
American Public Health Association - Ethics section "...provides opportunities to connect and collaborate with colleagues--active professionals, retired professionals and students — from a wide variety of disciplines who are committed to advancing public health ethics in practice, teaching and research."
American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics "Our mission is to provide high-quality scholarship, debate, and critical thought for professionals at the intersection of law, medicine, and ethics."
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) "HIMSS is a global, cause-based, not-for-profit organization focused on better health through information and technology. HIMSS leads efforts to optimize health engagements and care outcomes using information technology."
PRIM&R Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) advances the highest ethical standards in the conduct of biomedical, behavioral, and social science research. We accomplish this mission through education, membership services, professional certification, public policy initiatives, and community building

Tracks We Leave

American Journal of Bioethics Coverage: 2001 to 18 months ago
Bioethics Coverage: 1998 to one year ago
Chronicle of Higher Education Coverage: 1999 to present
Journal of Medical Ethics Coverage: 1975 to 6 months ago
New Bioethics Coverage: 2012-present
Nursing Ethics coverage 1994 - present
Penn Bioethics Journal Coverage: 2006-present

Health Sciences Research Databases

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Health Sciences Databases (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Searches 10 health sciences databases simultaneously: Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database: Health & Medicine, Career & Technical Education Database: Health & Medicine, Consumer Health Database, Health & Medical Collection, Health Administration Database, India Database: Health & Medicine, Nursing & Allied Health Database, Psychology Database, Public Health Database, and Research Library: Health & Medicine.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition This link opens in a new window Provides access to nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines as well as the Lexi-PALS Drug Guide.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window Comprehensive coverage of all areas of nursing and allied health with access to more than 770 journals and 275 ebooks.
ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences and Physical Sciences Collections This link opens in a new window Access to over 1,550 full text journals in health & life sciences, chemistry, computer science, physics, mathematics, and earth & planetary sciences. On the results page, green icons mean the full text is available (white means abstract only). Please note: Articles are available from 1995 to present only.
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Assoc. This link opens in a new window Full text available from 1998-present. An international, peer-reviewed, general medical journal that contains groundbreaking research and insightful commentary from leaders across the broad spectrum of health care.
Ovid: Full Text Nursing & Allied Health Journals and eBooks This link opens in a new window Search across a targeted collection of full text journals and eBooks selected by Excelsior faculty that cover the nursing and allied health fields. You can also use the OVID Emcare database to browse citations of articles.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window A free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature and primary research reports from the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

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eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary eBooks representing a broad range of subjects.
Ebook Central (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window eBooks on a range of subjects such as business, information technology, education, engineering, health, history, humanities, life & physical sciences, and social and behavioral sciences.

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Films on Demand (Health & Medicine) The Health & Medicine collection of the Films On Demand database includes over 2,100 full-length streaming videos in the fields of health sciences and medicine
Alexander Street Press (Health Sciences) The Health & Medicine collection of the Alexander Street Press database includes over 2,500 full-length streaming videos in the fields of health sciences and medicine.
Khan Academy (Health & Medicine) Videos on health and medicine topics

ImageQuest (Britannica) This link opens in a new window Nearly 3 million rights-cleared images from more than 50 collections including Getty Images, the National Portrait Gallery of London, and the National Geographic Society.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Specialized reference eBooks for background information on all subjects, including audio, video, and image results.

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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Specialized reference eBooks for background information on all subjects, including audio, video, and image results.
Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window The largest, most authoritative encyclopedia in the world, this database contains articles, maps, images, videos, and yearbooks from 1993 to present. Use it instead of Wikipedia for your research!
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window More than 50 reference eBooks in business, communications, history, law, literature, medicine, nation & world, science, and technology.

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