What we collect
The Bioethics Library holds the most comprehensive collection of material relating to bioethics in the world. It ranges from the earliest works in the field of bioethics to current publications. The physical and digital collection includes all formats of material, from books and journals to oral history recordings and transcripts, ephemera, Bioethics Commission reports and meeting notes, and unpublished manuscripts.
U.S. Bioethics Commissions | Books and Journals |
Islamic Medical Ethics | Human Genome Project Archives |
Bioethics Interviews | Archived Bioethics Websites |
Jewish Ethics | Asian Bioethics |
The Bioethics Research Library houses the following special collections:
- Digital Archive on the Protection of Human Subjects
- Islamic Medical and Scientific Ethics
- Kampelman Collection of Jewish Ethics
- National Bioethics Advisory Commission Digital Archive
- President’s Council on Bioethics Digital Archive
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Collection on Women, Infants and Children
- Shigeo Morioka Asian Bioethics Collection
- Shriver Collection of Christian Ethics
- The Acadia Institute Bioethics Project: Interviews
- The Robert M. Cook-Deegan Genome Archive