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Medical Ethics

Bioethics Resources on the Web (NIH Site)
http://www.nih.gov/sigs/bioethics/

The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity
http://www.bioethix.org/

National Bioethics Advisory Committee
http://bioethics.gov

U. Penn's Center for Bioethics
http://www.bioethics.net/

By & For Organ Donors, Recipients and Others

Liver & Onions-A Liver Recipient's Experience
http://www.pinn.net/~jacq/liveron.htm

The James Redford Institute for Transplant Awareness
http://www.jrifilms.org

National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program
http://www.nationalmottep.org/

TRIO: Transplant Recipients International Organization, Inc.
http://www.trioweb.org/

Human-to-Human Organ Transplantation

Coalion on Donation
http://www.shareyourlife.org/

Ethics in living donor organ transplantation
Th. Gutmann / W. Land (Oct 1999)
http://www.med.uni-muenchen.de/trans/ethics.htm

Non-Heart-Beating Organ Transplantation: Practice and Protocols
Institutes of Medicine (2000)
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309066417/html/R1.html

OrganDonor.Gov
http://www.organdonor.gov

"Organ Procurement and Transplantation: Ethical and Practical Issues"
Arthur Caplan (Sept 1995)
http://www.upenn.edu/ldi/issuebrief2_5.html

To take without permission? Presumed consent for organ harvest in the ER
Dustin Ballard (Mar 23 2000)
http://www.med.upenn.edu/bioethics/er/er33.html

TransWeb
http://www.transweb.org

UNOS: The United Network for Organ Sharing
http://www.unos.org

Animal Welfare Issues

Animal procurement sources and source facility controls
1-11-00
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/00/backgrd/3581b1h.doc

Animal Protection Institute
http://www.api4animals.org/

The Nature of Wellness
http://www.animalresearch.org/

Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/olaw.htm

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
http://www.peta.org/

Animal-to-Human Organ Transplantation

Background Info - Creating Transgenic Animals
http://www.criver.com/techdocs/transgen.html

Campaign for Responsible Transplantation
http://www.crt-online.org/

Controversies Surrounding Xenotransplantation
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/innovation/show2/html/4sb-contr.html

Could This Pig Save Your Life?
http://www.xenomed.com/ Could%20This%20Pig%20Save%20Your%20Life.htm

Cross-Species Transplants
http://whyfiles.org/007transplant/index.html

Draft PHS Guideline on Infectious Disease Issues in Xenotransplantation
10/18/2000
http://www.fda.gov/cber/gdlns/xenophs1000.htm

The Ethical Acceptability of Xenotransplantation
by Pascal Ferzli
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/pgf1/bioethics.html

Ethics Issues in Xenotransplantation.
By Arvind Koshal, MD, MS, FRCSC
http://gpu.srv.ualberta.ca/~ethics/bb6-3xen.htm

FDA Backgrounder - Xenotransplantation (2-25-98)
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/backgrounders/xeno.html

Genetically altered animal organs offer patients hope
Steve Struble. (November 8, 1995)
http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/95/11/08/04GeneticallyAltered.html

New England Antivivisection Society
The Trouble with Xenotransplants
http://www.neavs.org/articles/xeno.html

New rules proposed for animal-to-human transplants
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9609/20/nfm/transplant/index.html

Nuffield Council on Bioethics
Conclusions and Recommendations on Xenotransplantation
http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/bioethics/publication/transplants/rep0012708.html

Organ Transplants from Animals: Examining the Possibilities
Rebecca D. Williams
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/596_xeno.html

Xenotransplantation: huge benefits, hard choices
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-1.2/Xeno.htm#Choosing

Xenotransplantation: Risks, Clinical Potential, and Future Prospects
EID Volume 2(1) January-March 1996
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol2no1/michler.htm

Xenotransplants - safety, reliability and ethics
http://www.globalchange.com/xenosafe.htm

Embryonic Stem Cells & Fetal Tissue

"Declaration on the Production and the Scientific and Therapeutic
Use of Human Embryonic Stem Cells"
Pontifical Academy for Life
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdlife/
documents/rc_pa_acdlife_doc_20000824_cellule-staminali_en.html

Embryonic Stem Cells Debut Amid Little Media Attention
Ricki Lewis (Sep 29 1997)
http://www.the-scientist.com/yr1997/sept/lewis_p1_970929.html

"Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Ethically Wrong Treatment of the Tiniest of Humans"
Hannah M. Vick (May 2000)
http://www.cwfa.org/library/life/2000-05_pp_stem-cell.shtml

Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research - Executive Summary
NBAC (September 1999)
http://www.bioethics.gov/execsumm.pdf

NIH Lifts Stem Cell Funding Ban, Issues Guidelines
Kate Devine (Sept 18 2000)
http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2000/sep/devine_p8_000918.html

A Paradigm Shift in Stem Cell Research?
Ricki Lewis (Mar 6 2000)
http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2000/mar/lewis_p1_000306.html

Organ & Body Part Manufacture and Repair

American Society for Artificial Internal Organs
http://asaio.com/

Biomedical Engineering Society Newsletter
http://mecca.org/BME/BMES/bulletin.htm

"Growing New Organs"
David J. Mooney & Antonios G. Mikos
Scientific American (Apr 1999)
http://www.sciam.com/1999/0499issue/0499mooney.html

'Heart in a Box': Global Effort Works to Put the Pieces Together
Paul Smaglik (Mar 15 1999)
http://www.the-scientist.com/yr1999/mar/smaglik_p1_990315.html

New Medical Devices Challenge Scientists And Regulators Alike
Elizabeth Pennisi (Apr 30 1990)
http://www.the-scientist.com/yr1990/apr/pennisi_p6_900430.html

What Constitutes Death?

"Brain Death and Organ Transplantation: Biological, Ethical and Philosophical Issues"
Joze Trontelj
http://www.trnovo.kclj.si/transplant/trontelj1_e.html

Brain Death in Islamic Jurisprudence
Abdulaziz Sachedina
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~aas/article/article7.htm

"Non-Heart-Beating Organ Donation: A Defense of the Required Determination of Death"
James M. DuBois (1999)
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
http://www.aslme.org/pub_jlme/27.2c.html

"Organ Transplantation and Brain-Death in Japan.
Cultural, Legal and Bioethical Background"
Rihito Kimura (1998)
http://kenko.human.waseda.ac.jp/rihito/licht_transplant98.html

 



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