Bioethics Resources: Home

Issues in Genetics: genetic discrimination, genome editing, genome statutes and legislation, informed consent for genomics research, and more.

NIH Department of Bioethics: featured projects, empirical research, recent publications, and other resources.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM®) offers a consolidated Bioethics Information Resource. Included are references to ethical, legal, and policy issues in health care and biomedical research.

The observatory is a system of databases with worldwide coverage in bioethics and other areas of applied ethics in science and technology such as environmental ethics, science ethics, and technology ethics.

Free resources including advance directives, DNR directives, power of attorney forms, case studies, end of life planning, and pain resources.

Many have seen the headlines that bring attention to the multiple societal factors that impact disparities in care, including environmental and other social determinants. Add the facts that racial and ethnic minorities currently represent one-third of the U.S. population and will become a majority of the population in 2042.

This site was created to help hospitals, health systems, clinicians and staff improve the quality of care for each and every patient.

Citations to literature on bioethics and professional ethics. Maintained by the Bioethics Research Library of Georgetown.

This public resource posts a list of all former U.S. national bioethics commissions (and one prominent international one), with all of their reports and, where available, a downloadable copy of these reports.

EthnoMed contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and related topics pertinent to the health care of immigrants to Seattle or the US, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world.

The Bioethics Forum is made possible by Supporting Members of The Hastings Center.