HLT 145: Ethics for Healthcare Professionals

Medical ethics association grounded in religious ethical beliefs. Use the Issues drop down menu in the upper right corner or scroll to the bottom of the page, and click the ethical issue link in the black footer.

The AMA houses its own ethics council and institute.

The American Nurses Association (ANA) Center for Ethics and Human Rights was established to help nurses navigate ethical and value conflicts, and life and death decisions, many of which are common to everyday practice. The Center develops policy designed to address issues in ethics and human rights at the state, national, and international levels.

This organization encourages "consideration of issues in human values as they relate to health services, the education of health care professionals, and research."

Searchable collection of the "Case & Commentary" articles from the AMA Journal of Ethics

The Hastings Center addresses social and ethical issues in health care, science, and technology. The Hastings Center is the oldest independent, nonpartisan, interdisciplinary research institute of its kind in the world.

Provided by Georgetown University Medical Center - Center for Clinical Bioethics.

Fogarty aims to strengthen research bioethics expertise in developing countries by providing resources and information to bioethicists, research ethics committee members, researchers, students, and everyone else involved in international health research.

The Santa Clara University center features a long list of online articles by the institution's fellows on the topic of medical ethics.

The scientific arm of the United Nations has combined its resources in one place, with links to the advisory bodies, the International Bioethics Committee (IBC), and the Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee (IGBC).

Translation from the Greek by Ludwig Edelstein, from The Hippocratic Oath: Text, Translation, and Interpretation, by Ludwig Edelstein. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943.

Hippocratic Oath: Modern Version (by Louis Lasagna, Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University)

The American Medical Association's "standards of conduct which define the essentials of honorable behavior for physicians."

Replaces the AHA Patient Bill of Rights.

Full text available in several languages, also available as a downloadable brochure.