General Links to Ethical Sites, Organizations,
Publications
æ
Professional
Ethical Resources on the WWW
http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources/professional/
æ Ethical Considerations of Assisted Reproductive Technologies: ASRM Ethics Committee Reports and Statements
This site is available from the American Society of Reproductive Medicine. You can readily access the Home Page of the ASRM from here, but this particular page provides material that is specifically of an ethical nature
http://www.asrm.org/Media/Ethics/ethicsmain.html
æ The National Bioethics Advisory Commssion
Aside from providing some potentially useful ethical links, the site offers the Commission's own reports; these could be valuable as titles include (among others):
Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research, September 1999
http://bioethics.gov/cgi-bin/bioeth_counter.pl
æ Council for Biotechnology Information
This is a Canadian site and it is completely in support of genetic modification of foods (among other things). There are lots of articles and links which support the Council's purpose.
æ North West Resistance Against Genetic Engineering (NW RAGE)
Not everyone is organizing a voice against GM products! This is one site which is lobbying strongly against such media coverage as provided by the Council for Biotechnology Information.
http://www.nwrage.org/nwrage.html
æ Bulletin of Medical Ethics
This "bulletin" is apparently a 10-times-a-year journal from Britain. This particular web site has not been updated since 1998; however, the references are still valid. In particular, one might use the "links" here and get to the Bulletins list of selected sites. There are several of interest to those dealing with animal-related issues.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Bulletin_of_Medical_Ethics/homepage.htm
æ Canadian Institutes in Health Research
This is a page available from the CIHR which identifies its ethical framework.
http://www.cihr.ca/about_cihr/ethics/research_e.shtml
æ Codes of Ethics: Animal Breeding and Care
The Centre for Study of Ethics in the Professions from Illinois Institute of Technology has gather links to several animal breeding associations where one will find their particular efforts at establishing a code of ethics.
http://csep.iit.edu/codes/animal.html
æ Canadian Bioethics Society
The site provides some useful links to Canadian sites
http://www.bioethics.ca/english/
æ The Center for Bioethics
Hosted by the University of Minnesota, the site also directs you to the CNN - Ethics Matters regular feature
æ The Islet Foundation
Read about another view on various research techniques from foundation pushing for a cure for DIABETES
æ Coalition for Biomedical and Health Research
The advocacy web site for a group dedicated to ensuring that the Canadian government continues to support research.
æ Chowan College Center for Ethics
Various links to describe the center as well as some photos of ethical people.
http://www.chowan.edu/acadp/ethics/
This page was last update on 02/10/01