Course Guides
Philosophy 261: Ethical Issues in Health Care
Reference Sources
(facts on disease states, health conditions, medical issues, legal issues, philosophical issues)
| Magill's Medical Guide | REF RC41 .M34 2005 |
| Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine | REF RC41 .G35 2002 (5 vols) |
| Encyclopedia & Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health | REF R121 .M65 2003 |
| Encyclopedia of Bioethics (3rd ed) | REF QH332 .E52 2004 |
| Encyclopedia of Philosophy | REF B51 .R68 1998 (10 vols) |
| Other texts | |
| The right of patients: the authoritative ACLU guide | KF3823 .A96 2004 |
HELIN Catalog
The best way to find books relevant to your research topic is by “LC Subject” searching, but the correct subject headings aren’t always obvious:
Papillomavirus [not HPV]
See also Sexually Transmitted Diseases
To identify useful Library of Congress Subject Headings for your topic, conduct a ‘Keyword” search with terms describing your topic (e.g., HPV).
When you find a title that interests you, go to the full record and scroll to the bottom of the page to view the “LC subjects” assigned to that book. By clicking on the subject headings, you can locate other items that are assigned that subject heading.
Keyword examples
Suggested Subject Headings
Bioethics
Medical ethics
Moral and ethical aspects (This subject subdivision may appear with such medically related headings as: Assisted Suicide, Biotechnology, Euthanasia, Genetic Engineering, Human Cloning, Palliative Treatment; Right to Die, Stem Cells, Terminal Care; Transplantation of Organs or with the names of specific diseases, i.e.: AIDS (Disease), Alzheimer's Disease)
Periodical Indices/Databases
Academic Search Premier
Google Scholar
JSTOR
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
- Legal Research section - for law reviews
- News section - for news coverage; Choose U.S. News category; Note that news organizations from different regions may have widely differing perspectives--pro or con, liberal or conservative, etc.--on the same issue or topic.
PubMed
- To find bioethics-related articles add the string <bioethics [sb]> to your search, i.e. <brain death AND bioethics [sb]>
Course readings
- Remember that many of the readings that have been put on Reserve for your course will have bibliographies with potentially useful sources.
Web resources (Evaluating Web Resources)
General Medical/Health
Healthfinder [National Health Information Center, US Department of Health and Human Services]
MedlinePlus [National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine]
HON [Health On the Net Foundation]
Health A to Z - Encyclopedia [many articles are reproduced from the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (2nd ed.) REF RC41.G35 2002
Bioethics-related
Center of Bioethics (University of Pennsylvania)
Center for Practical Bioethics
Kennedy Institute of Ethics (Georgetown University)
- ETHX on the Web (National Information Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics)
- Genetics and Ethics Database (National Information Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics)
- National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
NIH Bioethics Resources on the Web
Address to the Participants in the International Congress on "LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENTS AND VEGETATIVE STATE:
SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES AND ETHICAL DILEMMAS” Saturday, 20 March 2004Top Ten Myths about Donation and Transplantation Note especially Myth#3 “Q&A on Brain Death” and Myth#4 “Religious Views on Donation” (TransWeb: All About Transplantation and Donation)