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Bioethics
Stem cell research, genetic testing, cloning: progress in the life sciences is giving human beings new power to improve our health and control the development processes of all living species. Concerns about the social, cultural, legal and ethical implications of such progress have led to one of the most significant debates of the past century. A new word has been coined to encompass these concerns: bioethics. Read more...
 


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WebsitesAkademie für Ethik in der Medizin e.V.   (Go)
The Academy for Ethics in Medicine is an interdisciplinary, independent forum for medical ethics issues in Germany.
 WebsitesBioethics Bulletin   (Go)
Monthly bulletin published by the University of Buffalo Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care
 WebsitesBioethics.com   (Go)
Website providing information concerning recent developments in the field of bioethics
 WebsitesBioethicsLine   (Go)
Database of documents on ethical and public policy issues in health care and biomedical research
 WebsitesCenter for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia   (Go)
An interdisciplinary research centre that studies a range of topics, including health care practices, business and professional procedures, new information technologies and environmental issues.
 WebsitesCentro di Bioetica   (Go)
Bioethics Center of the Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome
 WebsitesChinese Bioethics   (Go)
Chinese Bioethics Research
 WebsitesComité Consultatif National d'Éthique (CCNE)   (Go)
Comité Consultatif National d'Éthique pour les sciences de la vie et de la santé (France)
 WebsitesConselho Nacional de Ética para as Ciências da Vida   (Go)
National Council of Ethics for the Life Sciences, Portugal
 WebsitesDanish Council of Ethics   (Go)
Det Etiske Råd
 WebsitesEthics Commitees for the Sciences   (Go)
Comité d'éthique pour les sciences (CNRS)France
 WebsitesEubios Institute   (Go)
Available in Japanese and in English
 WebsitesEuregenethy-network   (Go)
The Euregenethy-network is a a scientific network of users which focuses on regulation, safety and ethics of gene therapy in Europe.
 WebsitesEuropean Federation of Biotechnology   (Go)
Non-profit association of biotechnology
 WebsitesEuropean Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies to the European Commission   (Go)
The EGE is an independant, pluralist and multidisciplinary body which advises the European Commission on ethical aspects of science and new technologies in connection with the preparation and implementation of Community legislation or policies.
 WebsitesHastings Center   (Go)
An independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit bioethics research institute founded in 1969 to explore fundamental and emerging questions in health care, biotechnology, and the environment.
 WebsitesHuman Genome News   (Go)
Promoting Awareness, Progress, and Applications of the Human Genome Project
 WebsitesINSERM   (Go)
National Institute of Health and Medical Research
 WebsitesInter-parliamentary Union   (Go)
Your site on parliamentary democracy
 WebsitesInterfakultäres Zentrum für Ethik in den Wissenschaften   (Go)
Interdisziplinäres Forschungszentrum der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
 WebsitesInternational Council for Global Health Progress (ICGHP)   (Go)
Integrating Science, Medicine and Society
 WebsitesKennedy Institute of Ethics   (Go)
Georgetown University
 WebsitesKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal   (Go)
Offers a scholarly forum for diverse views on major issues in bioethics
 WebsitesMcGill University (Canada)   (Go)
Biomedical Ethics Unit
 WebsitesMedWeb   (Go)
MedWeb is a catalog of biomedical and health related web sites maintained by the staff of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University.
 WebsitesNational Consultative Ethics Committee for the Life and Health Sciences (France)   (Go)
Official Name: Comité Consultatif National d'Ethique pour les sciences de la vie et de la santé (CCNE)
 WebsitesNational Institutes of Health (USA)   (Go)
United States Department of Health and Human Services
 WebsitesThe Danish Council of Ethics   (Go)
Annual Report 2003 of the Danish Council of Ethics
 WebsitesWorld Medical Association (WMA)   (Go)
WMA Ethics Unit



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