Collins Memorial Library: BIOE 272: Public Health Ethics: Find Articles

Key Databases

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of bioethics, you'll likely need to search multiple subject databases.

PubMed
Bibliographic database that contains references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. Records are indexed with NLM's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Coverage encompasses those areas of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering needed by health professionals and others engaged in basic research and clinical care, public health, health policy development, or related educational activities.
Philosophers Index
Covers scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. It contains research published since 1940 including journals from many countries with content representing a variety of languages.
Political Science Database
Gives users access to leading political science and international relations journals, providing full-text of many core titles indexed in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. In addition, it includes recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country profiles, political news and other sources.
Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
History of Science, Technology and Medicine (HSTM)
An international bibliography for the history of science, technology, and medicine and their influence on culture, from pre-history to the present. Includes records of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, serials, maps and other materials.

Finding News Articles

Newspaper Source
Provides cover-to-cover full text for national (U.S.) newspapers, including The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post and The Washington Times. The database also contains selective full text for regional (U.S.) newspapers. Also includes international news sources including The Times (London), The Toronto Star and others.
New York Times (ProQuest)
Includes The New York Times; Late Edition (East Coast), New York Times Magazine, and New York Times Book Review.
Access World News
Find global information on topics related to business and economics, the environment, global issues, health, international studies, literature, performing and fine arts, politics and government, science, social issues, technology and more from a variety of news media featuring newspapers, videos and web-only content.
Seattle Times Collection
Explore local news, events, people, and history with this Integrated Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online.
Los Angeles Times
One of the largest metropolitan newspapers in the U.S. The Times' is the largest news gathering operation in California. Each issue of every newspaper is indexed thoroughly, giving access to top news stories, and detailed information on the arts, sports, business, and popular culture. Even such items as editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor from well-known people are indexed.

Key Bioethics Journals

The links below will take you to the Primo catalog page for each journal. Click on the "View it" tab to connect to online access tools or to find the location in Collins Library. This is NOT a comprehensive list, but rather, a selection of the most well-known scholarly journals devoted to bioethical themes.

Search Terms

You'll need to use a variety of search terms within databases, depending on your focus and topic. Some examples are listed below, but you also may wish to consult the Bioethics Thesaurus currently maintained by The Bioethics Research Library at Georgetown University.

Advance care planning
Advance directives
Animal rights
Animal testing
Assisted suicide
Clinical ethics
Cloning
Code of ethics
Confidentiality
End-of-life
Ethical review
Euthanasia
Gene therapy
Genetic engineering
Human experimentation
Informed consent
Medical ethics
Organ transplant
Patient rights
Professionalism
Public health