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The American Medical Association (AMA) Ethics Standards Division has created a range of reports and recommendations to provide physicians, health professionals and the public with guidance on physician ethics and professionalism. The following list of online links and references was compiled to complement AMA resources.
Organizations
Universities
Resources
(This list of resources is not inclusive, and it will be growing continuously as materials are suggested. If you would like to suggest resources to be included, please e-mail the Institute for Ethics at ife@ama-assn.org. The listing of an organization on this Web page does not contitute endorsement by the AMA.
Center for Ethics and Professionalism
American College of Physicians
The Center for Ethics and Professionalism is devoted to policy development and implementation on issues related to medical ethics and professionalism, and as a resource for ACP members and the public.
The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
The purpose of ASBH is to promote the exchange of ideas and foster multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and interprofessional scholarship, research, teaching, policy development, professional development, and collegiality among people engaged in all of the endeavors related to clinical and academic bioethics and the health-related humanities.
The Hastings Center
The Hastings Center is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit bioethics research institute founded in 1969 to explore fundamental and emerging questions in health care, biotechnology, and the environment.
Midwest Bioethics Center
Dedicated to our mission to raise and respond to ethical issues, and acting always on our guiding principles, the Center offers workshops and educational programs for professionals and lay people, helps providers throughout the country resolve ethical issues in clinical work, and helps administrators and their staffs iintegrate ethics into their organizational structures.
National Institutes of Health
Internet site that brings together all web-based resources at the NIH having to do with bioethics.
World Health Organization Ethics and Health Initiative
The Ethics and Health Initiative was launched by the World Health Organization in October 2002 both to provide a focal point for the examination of the ethical issues raised by activities throughout the organization, including the regional offices, and to develop global initiatives on a wide range of bioethics topics.
World Medical Association
The World Medical Association is an international organization representing physicians. The organization was created to ensure the independence of physicians, and to work for the highest possible standards of ethical behaviour and care by physicians, at all times.
Baylor College of Medicine
Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Case Western Reserve University
Center for Biomedical Ethics
Georgetown University
Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Loyola Marymount University
The Bioethics Institute
Loyola University, Chicago
Neiswanger Center for Bioethics and Health Policy
Medical College of Wisconsin
Center for the Study of Bioethics
Michigan State University
Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences
Oklahoma University College of Medicine, Tulsa
Oklahoma Bioethics Center
Oregon Health Sciences University
Center for Ethics in Health Care
St. Louis University Health Sciences
Center for Health Care Ethics
Stanford University Medical Center
Center for Biomedical Ethics
Tuskegee University
National Center for Bioethics
University of Chicago Department of Medicine
MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
University of Iowa
Program in Biomedical Ethics and Humanities
University of Minnesota
Center for Bioethics
University of Pennsylvania
Center for Bioethics
University of South Carolina
Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities
University of Utah School of Medicine
Division of Medical Ethics
University of Virginia
Center for Biomedical Ethics
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Center for Clinical and Research Ethics
West Virginia University
Center for Health Ethics and the Law
Bioethics.net
Home of The American Journal of Bioethics, this user-friendly, award-winning website provides ready access to commentary about a variety of issues in bioethics, including important cutting edge topics as well as more familiar subjects in the field.
Bioethics and Bioterrorism
In collaboration with the University of Virginia Center for Biomedical Ethics, The American Journal of Bioethics has developed a special web resource (video clips) to explore, and hopefully clarify, the bioethical dilemmas confronting the global community at present.
Bioethics International Calendar
Maintained by the Division for Medical Humanities, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Calendar is up-dated approximately every two weeks.
Bioethics Organizations (Source: Georgetown)
Bioethics Organizations (Source: University of Chicago)
List of bioethics organizations in the United States and across the world.
Ethics and Public Health: Model Curriculum
The Curriculum is a collaborative effort between the Association of Schools of Public Health, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and The Hastings Center. The Curriculum is intended as a resource to enhance and encourage thoughtful, well informed, and critical discussions of ethical issues in the field of public health.
Virtual Mentor
Produced by the Ethics Resource Center at the American Medical Association, Virtual Mentor is an interactive, Web-based forum for analysis and discussion of ethical and professional issues that medical students, residents and young physicians encounter during their educational training.
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