PHIL444: Medical Ethics

General

Ethics Updates: Introducing you to theoretical ethics, specific ethical theories, and various topics in applied ethics (abortion, euthanasia, reproductive technologies, animal ethics,...). Includes slide shows and video presentations, so have a look when you are on a high bandwidth connection.
Nuffield Council on Bioethics: A very rich resource. Includes pdf downloads of their reports.
NIH Bioethics resources: Bioethics resources from the National Institutes of Health.
SEPP: UD's Science, Ethics, and Public Policy program has resources in bioethics and other areas of applied ethics and policy.

Delaware Advance Directive Info: Maintained by Delaware Health and Social Services
Caring Connections: General information and guidance concerning advance directives. Includes a helpful FAQ and links to state specific information

The Nazi Doctors: Experiments by Nazi Doctors during WW2. Led to the Nuremberg Code (q.v.)
A Case Study of the Tuskegee Syphilis Project: The notorious Tuskegee study of syphilis in poor rural black Americans.
NPR: Remembering Tuskegee: More Tuskegee
Human Radiation Experiments: The Department of Energy's site on its radiation experiments on human subjects.
Stanford Prison Experiment: The official site of a fascinating study in both psychology and ethical blunders.

The Nuremberg Code: The first international code of ethical conduct for HSR.
Declaration of Helsinki: A later international agreement on ethical conduct of HSR.
The Belmont Report: Statement of principles very influential the conduct of HSR, especially in the USA.
Code of Federal Regulations: Protection of Human subjects: Regulations for federal human subject research.

Dennett: Animal Consciousness: What Matters and Why: A paper on the challenges of finding out about the goings on in animal minds.