Bioethics -- Yale Selected Library and Internet Resources
This guide was initially prepared for use by students of CSTS/TC 481 Bioethics, taught by Professor Arthur
Galston in 1998 and 1999. The current revision shows major and notable information sources available in or outside of the identified libraries at Yale and reflects more contemporary search examples and a limited number of recent publications. The guide is intended as a overview for identifying publications and sources of reference or published information for topics within science.
Additional sources associated with animals are also available. These include the UFAW Handbook on the Care and Management of Laboratory Animals and the National Rresearch Council's newer Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals in the KSL reference collection at SF406/SF405.5 .
The bioethics thesaurus, found in Bibliography of Bioethics, is useful for selecting
keywords and their synonyms or related terms to form search strategies in numerous sources. This annual is located at Kline Science Library, in the
Abstracts area. See volume 1 (1975) for the bioethics thesaurus. A newer thesaurus was published in volume 18 (1992).
Sections: |Electronically-accessible sources| Print resources| Yale activities and contacts|
I. Electronically-accessible sources -
- *** Agricola - a U.S.-based literature database for agriculture topics
- Example keyword search: livestock and inspection
- *** Biosis -
an international citation and abstract database for biology and life sciences
- Example keyword search: animal and experimentation
- *** CAB Abstracts - a worldwide agriculture database of references plus abstracts
- Example keyword search: genetically and modified and food
- *** Embase - a medical citation and abstract database with more of a European and non-Western emphasis, added coverage also of pharmaceutical fields
- *** Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - a recent encyclopedia with a number of ethically-related articles (for example, eugenics, cloning, stem cell research)
- *** Ethics Index - cd-rom at Sterling Memorial Library - Indexes
journal articles and essays from books; for the mid-1990s only.
- Example keyword searches: (assisted death) or (assisted
suicide), confidentiality, life-support
- *** Medline - the best-known medical
citation and abstract database with international coverage
- Example keyword search: immunization and risk
- *** PAIS (Public Affairs
Information Service) - a useful database of citations for finding
publications on public affairs and policy as they relate to current social and
political issues, 1972 - present, worldwide in scope.
- Example search: genetically modified food
- ***Zoological Record - the major database of references for published literature in zoology and natural history with some abstracts
- Example search: endangered species
- *** Freely-accessible World Wide Web Internet sites -
- - BIOETHICSLINE, part of the resources provided by the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature.
- - Best Information on the Net --
Bioethical Issues, from St. Ambrose
University, O'Keefe Library
- - bioethics.net, from University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics.
- - Web Resources for Bioethics, from J. McLaughlin. Emphasizes health care. An earlier page.
II. - Print resources -
- *** - Bibliography of Bioethics (Kline Science Library Abstracts, Sterling Memorial Library Starr Main Reference Room, Medical Library Reference, Divinity Library) Since its beginning in 1975, subject matter newly or more closely monitored, all in English, includes: AIDS, animal experimentation, capital punishment, genome mapping, immunization, occupational health, patenting life forms, public health, suicide, surrogate mothers, torture, war.
- *** - Biology Digest (Kline Library Abstracts area). Keyword index in each issue and cumulated annually. At KSL 1992- .
- *** - Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (Sterling Memorial Library, Starr Main
Reference Room BJ63 +E44X 1998 (LC))
- *** - Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues in Biotechnology Medical Library Reference sect. 19 TP248.16 M87 2000+ and also at the Law Library
- *** - Encyclopedia of Genetics (Kline Science Library Reference QH427 +E533 2002, vol. 2) A general article with some historical perspective.
- *** - Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (Kline Science Library Reference QH302.5 +E539 2002) This multi-volume encyclopedia includes a number of articles on topics of bioethical interest, including: eugenics, cloning, stem cell research. (Also accessible online to current Yale affiliates. See I., above.)
- *** - Frontiers of Life (Kline Science Library Reference QH302.5 +F76 2002, vol. 4, pt. 3) A more substantive and recent treatment, touching on understanding of the vocabulary of this field, human-related examples placed in their historical contexts, and problems associated with medical and technological capabilities (especially with respect to genetics and practice). Some laws and codes are mentioned. Rights and experimentation on non-humans is included. Worldwide in perspective.
- *** - Source Book in Bioethics (Kline Science Library Reference R724 +S599X 1998) This source is a collection of essays on human-related topics: humans as research subjects, death, genetics, reproduction, and health care.
- *** - World of Genetics (Kline Science Library Reference QH427 +W67 2002, vol. 1) A concise discussion.
- *** - other, non-reference books - Use Orbis the Yale library online catalog to identify books and use remaining card catalogs for additional titles of older and lesser-known sources. Reference assistance for the SML card catalog is online accessible.
Morris is the online catalog for sources held in the Yale Law Library.
- Animal Rights: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, 2002 [one in its very short introductions series]
- Ethics and Law in Biological Research, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2002.
- Example keyword search: bioethic?
- Example keyword phrase search: scientific integrity
- *** - selected current journals - searching Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory, also available in print in a number of the Yale libraries, may yield additional titles as will Journal Citation Reports (see ethics in the Social Sciences edition) and other reference sources. Identify many of the Yale library holdings with
Orbis, online Yale library catalog
- Example keyword search: bioethics [with search limit on Item type: Serials and Journals]
- *** - basic texts include:
- Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, edited by TL Beauchamp and L. Walters, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 5th ed., 1999