Library Materials

The Bioethics Research Library of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics is home to the world’s most comprehensive collection of materials relating to the ethics of health care, biomedical research, biotechnology, and the environment. The interdisciplinary, multi-format collection includes not just books and journals, but oral history recordings and transcripts, Bioethics Commission reports and meeting notes, unpublished manuscripts, ephemera, and other “gray” literature.

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Index

A full listing of the specialized holdings (physical and digital) of the Bioethics Research Library.

• Archived Bioethics Websites
• Bioethics Archives
  • Belmont Report Anniversary and Oral History
• Bioethics Research Library Databases
  • Bibliographies on Bioethics Topics
  • Bioethics Thesaurus
  • BioethicsLine
  • Classification Scheme
  • DNA Patent Database
  • EthxWeb: Literature in Bioethics
  • GenEthx: Genetics and Ethics Database
  • International Bioethics Organizations Database
  • Islamic Medical and Scientific Ethics
• Digital Collections
  • Acadia Institute Observing Bioethics Interviews
  • Bibliography of Bioethics
  • Bioethical Issues: Scope Notes Archive
  • Bioethics Syllabus Exchange Repository
  • Digital Archive on the Protection of Human Subjects
  • Encyclopedia of Bioethics
  • Ethics and Intellectual Disability Newsletter Collection
  • Founders of Bioethics Scholarly Publications Archive
  • Genetics and Ethics Digital Bookshelf
  • GeorgetownX: Introduction to Bioethics MOOC Archive
  • Government and NGO Documents in Bioethics
  • Historical Ephemera of the Bioethics Research Library
  • Office of Technology Assessment Reports Collection
  • Publications of the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
  • Reports of the Institute on Human Values in Medicine
  • The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Newsletters
  • The Robert Cook-Deegan Human Genome Archive
  • U.S. Bioethics Commissions
• Open Access Resources
  • Annotated Bibliography of Articles Concerning Attitudes of Biospecimen Donors
  • High School Bioethics Curriculum Project Archived Website
• Special Collections
  • Archives and Manuscripts of Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino
  • Bioethics Audiovisuals
  • Bioethics Film Collection
  • Historical Bioethics Newsletters Archival Collection
  • Max M. and Marjorie B. Kampelman Collection of Jewish Ethics
  • Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Collection on Women, Infants and Children
  • Shigeo Morioka Asian Bioethics Collection
  • Shriver Collection of Christian Ethics