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	BMC Medical Ethics Open Access 2000 - current
	Ethics & Medicine Apr 2001 - current
	Hastings Center Report 1988 - current 12 month embargo
	IRB: Ethics and Human Research 2008 - current
	Journal of Hospital Ethics 2012 -
	Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 1995 - 2007
	Journal of Medical Ethics 1975 - current
	Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal Dec 2002 - current 12 month embargo
	Philosophy, Ethics and Humanity Open Access 2006 - current
	South African Journal of Bioethics and Law Open Access 2008 - current

Find more journals

Canadian Bioethics Companion by David Unger
Call Number: e-Book
Publication Date: 2011
Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine by Albert R. Jonsen; Mark Siegler
Call Number: e-Book
Publication Date: 2015, 8th edition
Doing Right by Philip C. Hebert; Wayne Rosen
Call Number: W 50 H446d 2019 (RGH)
Publication Date: 2019, 4th edition
Ethical Canary: Science, Society, and the Human Spirit by Margaret A. Somerville
Call Number: e-Book
Publication Date: 2004
First Principles: Applied Ethics for Psychoanalytic Practice by Alessandra Lemma
Call Number: e-Book
Publication Date: 2023
A Good Death by Sandra Martin
Call Number: W 50 C383g 2016 (SPH)
Publication Date: 2016
Health Ethics Guide by Catholic Health Alliance Of Canada
Publication Date: 2012
Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Advanced Practice by Pamela J. Grace
Call Number: e-book
Publication Date: 2018
Principles of Biomedical Ethics by Tom L. Beauchamp; James F. Childress
Call Number: W 50 B372p
Publication Date: 2019, 2013, 2009

Find more books

SHA Ethics Framework
Ethics Intranet Page
Only accessible from SHA-networked computers
IDEA: Ethical Decision-Making Framework Guide & Worksheets

Declaration of Geneva
World Medical Association
Declaration of Helsinki
World Medical Association
Declaration of Taipei
World Medical Association
Medical decision-making in paediatrics: Infancy to adolescence
Canadian Paediatric Society
Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans – TCPS 2 (2018)
Government of Canada

Find more guidelines

Find Standards

Code of Ethics and Professionalism
Canadian Medical Association
Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses
Canadian Nurses Association
Code of Medical Ethics
American Medical Association
Principles of the Ethical Practice of Public Health
Public Health Leadership Society

General:

British Medical Association: Medical Ethics
Daniels N. Accountability for reasonableness. BMJ. 2000;321(7272):1300–1301.
Hastings Center
Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics
Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Sanctity of Life or Quality of Life in the Context of Ethics, Medicine, and Law
A study written for the Law Reform Commission of Canada by Edward W. Keyserlingk
University of St. Michael's College: Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute
University of Toronto: Joint Centre for Bioethics

Associations & Societies:

DVDs:

Transfusion Alternative Strategies: Simple, Safe, Effective [DVD]

Blogs:

Blog on Bioethics
Blog of Stephen R. Latham, JD, PhD, Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Yale.
No longer updated, but can search the back file.
Bioethics Forum
Blog of the Hastings Center Report.
Bioethics Today Blog
A blog by the editors, staff and friends of The American Journal of Bioethics.
Global Bioethics Blog
The blog of a collaborative bioethics project entitled 'Strengthening bioethics capacity and justice in health' funded by the Fogarty International Center.