Philosophy: PHL 375
Researching Medical Ethics
There are several online databases which contain information pertaining to cases involving medical ethics.
Combine key words that describe your particular case with the subject headings each database uses to describe medical ethics.
- Medline (medicine)-Ethics, medical
-Biomedical Research Ethics
-Informed Consent Ethics
-Ethics, research
-Ethics, professional - PubMed (medicine)-medical ethics
-research ethics
-ethics nursing
-care ethics - SocINDEX (sociology)-Medical ethics
-Professional ethics
-Bioethics - Ageline (gerontology)(covers issues relating to aging)
-medical ethics
-ethical practices - Psych. Info. (psychology)-Experimental ethics
-Professional ethics
-Bioethics - CINHAL (nursing)-research ethics
-ethics
-ethics, nursing
-ethics, professional - JSTOR: Journals in PhilosophyContains journals devoted entirely to scholarship in ethics
Professional codes of ethics
Below are examples of general codes of ethics.
Many medical specialities also have ethics codes. Locate these by doing a search for the medical specialty and "code of ethics."
Locating Cases
Search these news resources for examples of specific cases by using key terms relating to the topic. For example if you would like an example of a case dealing with assisted suicide of a terminally ill patient, search using terms such as "end of life," "terminal illness," and "ethics."
- LexisNexis NewsUse "add index term" to narrow down to related fields (health care or pharmaceuticals for example)
Use Select Sources drop down box to search a certain type of newspaper (US News, Major World Papers, etc.)
