Subject Guide: Bioethical Decision Making

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Databases

Academic Search Premier - Provides full text for more than 3,460 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

Annual Reviews: Cell & Developmental Biology - This site contains abstracts and full text articles in the biomedical, physical and social sciences.

Health Reference Center: Academic - A full service resource for people needing health related research. It provides an integrated collection of general interest health and fitness magazines, medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets. Records are available in a combination of indexing, abstracts or full text formats. Contains information on a wide variety of topics.

Medline - Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, this site allows users to search abstracts for over 4,000 current biomedical journals.

Opposing Viewpoints - This site offers information on some of the ethical topics your instructor has chosen for this class. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspapers articles.

PapersFirst - This database provides an index of papers presented at conferences worldwide from 1993 to the present.

ProceedingsFirst - An index of worldwide conference proceedings. Provides citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.

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Internet Sites

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (http://www.cdc.gov)

Chronic ILL Net (http://www.chronicillnet.org) -- information on a variety of chronic illnesses.

Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Resources (http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/) -- links to health related sites.

Health Web (http://www.healthweb.org) -- guide to Internet resources in health and medicine.

Land of Medical Links (http://www.west.asu.edu/jbuenke/) -- medical health sites, research tools, news and more.

MedWeb (http://www.medweb.emory.edu/medWeb/) -- directory of biomedical information on the net.

National Guideline Clearinghouse (http://www.guideline.gov) -- An internet site based on comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related materials that have been submitted by 167 health care organizations, associations, medical societies and Federal agencies.

Books and Journals

Books may be found using the library's online catalog. In the library, you can find books according to their classification number. If you need help ask any of the librarians, technical staff or student assistant to assist you.

Online full-text journals are available. These journals are arranged by title.

Also, the library subscribes to periodicals in paper copy or microfiche. They are shelved or filed in alphabetical order according to title.