In recent years, the use of tissue from fetal remains for transplantation and biomedical research has surfaced as a controversy that involves scientists, doctors, patients and the federal government. Fetal tissue is ...

(Scope Note 8, AIDS: Law, Ethics and Public Policy, was published in April 1988. This updated bibliography was prepared at the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature (NRC), and first appeared in RSR: Reference ...

Visual aids to stimulate discussion and enhance lectures have long been a popular supplement for education. Classic medical ethics films made in the early 1970’s survive as strong teaching tools used by ethicists, medical ...

Each of us has some basic sense of what the words "fair" or "just" or "fairness" or "justice" mean. Each of us probably also has an idea of what is "fair" in health care. The attempt by the state of Oregon in the mid-1980s ...

(Literature about hospital ethics committees has grown enormously since Scope Note 3 first appeared. This update provides new information about resources and documents now available while continuing include important ...

Changes in the way that health care is perceived, delivered, and financed have occurred rapidly in a relatively short time span. The 50-year period since World War II encompasses enormous growth in medical technology, soaring ...

After a contentious debate at its 2002 annual meeting, the American Medical Association's House of Delegates voted to endorse the opinion of its Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs that the impact of financial incentives ...

Within medical research and healthcare certain groups are afforded special protections and services because of their designation as vulnerable. The vulnerable require special justification to participate in human ...

This annotated bibliography with an introductory essay was first published in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 163-178, June, 1995. It has been updated by Bioethics Research Library at Georgetown ...