Collins Memorial Library: Bioethics: 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.
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
Combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals.
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.

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