Useful links

The links below provide a range of general bioethics resources.

Please note, the Council does not endorse the contents of external websites.

UK organisations
Academic institutes
National Bioethics Advisory Bodies
International organisations
General bioethics sites
Journals
Bioethics teaching resources

UK organisations

Academy of Medical Sciences

Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)

British Medical Association (BMA)

Care Quality Commission

Centre for Life

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (defra)

Department of Health

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Food Standards Agency

Gene Therapy Advisory Committee

General Medical Council (GMC)

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)

Human Tissue Authority

Institute of Medical Ethics

Medical Research Council (MRC)

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)

National Research Ethics Service (NRES)

NC3Rs

Nowgen (Centre for Genetics in Healthcare)

PHG Foundation

Progress Educational Trust

Royal College of General Practitioners

Royal College of Nursing

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Royal College of Pathologists

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Royal College of Physicians

The Royal Society

The Royal Society of Medicine

Science Learning Centres

Scottish Council on Human Bioethics

Sense about Science

The Wales Gene Park

The Wellcome Trust

UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (UKCDS)

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Academic institutes

Centre for Applied Bioethics, University of Nottingham

Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol

Centre for Global Ethics, University of Birmingham

Centre for Medical Genetics and Policy, Cambridge University

Centre for Professional Ethics, Keele University (PEAK)

Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King’s College London

Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, University of Manchester

Cesagen, based at the Universities of Lancaster and Cardiff

The ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, University of Exeter

ESRC Genomics Network

Ethical Issues of Emerging ICT Applications, De Montfort University

The Ethox Centre, University of Oxford

The Hastings Center, New York

Innogen Centre, University of Edinburgh

Institute of Medicine, Law and Bioethics, University of Liverpool

Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham

Kennedy Institute of Bioethics, Georgetown University

Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics

Policy, Ethics & Life Sciences Research Centre, University of Newcastle

Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics (SIBLE)

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National Bioethics Advisory Bodies

Australia

The Australian Health Ethics Committee

Austria

Austrian Commission on Bioethics

Belgium

Belgian Advisory Committee on Bioethics

Canada

National Council on Ethics in Human Research

Science and Technology Ethics Committee, Quebec

Czech Republic

Bioethical Commission of the Research and Development Council

Denmark

Danish Council of Ethics

Finland

National Advisory Board on Social Welfare and Healthcare Ethics

France

CCNE – Comité Consultatif National d’Ethique

Germany

Deutscher Ethikrat

Greece

Greek National Commission of Bioethics

Italy

Comitato nazionale per la bioetica

Luxembourg

Commission Nationale d'Ethique (C.N.E.)

Netherlands

The Health Council of the Netherlands

Norway

National Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics

National Commitee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities

Nordic Countries

Nordic Committee on Bioethics

Portugal

National Ethics Council for Life Sciences

Slovakia

Central Ethic Committee of the Ministry of Health

Sweden

Swedish National Council on Medical Ethics

Switzerland

National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics

USA

Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues

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International organisations

The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS)
Council of Europe Steering Committee on Bioethics (CDBI)
European Forum for Good Clinical Practices (EFGCP)

EGE European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

Forum of National Ethics Councils: Library
HUGO The Human Genome Organisation
The International Institute of Research in Ethics and Biomedicine (IIREB)
OECD Internal Co-ordination Group for Biotechnology (ICGB)
UNESCO International Bioethics Committee
World Health Organisation
World Medical Association

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General bioethics sites

BioEdge - bioethics news from around the world

Bioethics.net - hosted by the University of Pennsylvania

Bioetica & Debat

BioNews

DRZE - German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences

EACME - European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics

International Association of Bioethics

National Institutes of Health Bioethics Resources on the Web

SciDev Net - Science and Development Network

SPIN - Science policy and Information News from the Wellcome Trust

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Journals

American Journal of Bioethics
Bioethics
BMC Medical Ethics
British Medical Journal
The Journal of Ethics
Journal of Applied Philosophy
Journal of Medical Ethics
Journal of Medical Genetics
The Journal of Philosophy, Science & Law
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
Medical Law Review

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Bioethics teaching resources

Nuffield Council on Bioethics resources for teachers

Bioethics bytes
BioEthics Education Project (BEEP)
Planet Science
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
Y-Touring Theatre Company

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