WOST 212: Researching Feminist Bioethics

Fall 2008

• Library Resources - Course Reserves, Reference Works, Finding Articles & Books, Journals
• Bioethics Research Resources, Organizations, and Centers
• Your Research Librarian

Library Resources

Course Reserves
Books for this course are on the open reserve shelves on the first floor of Clapp Library. Find them listed under Professor Galarneau.

Reference Works
Use these to find background information and citations to relevant texts.

• Encyclopedia of Bioethics, third edition - Clapp Ref QH 332.E52 2004 or Online
  
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Online (Feminist Bioethics entry has a great bibiography)
• Feminist Perspectives on Bioethics - Clapp Ref Z 5322.B5 M33 1996
  
• Bibliography of Bioethics - Clapp Ref Z 6675.E8 B53 (annual bibliography of writings in bioethics)
  

Find Articles and Books
Use the library catalog to find books. Use WorldCat to find books we don't own.

The College subscribes to many databases which contain citations to journal articles, and often, links to full text. Try these first:

Most relevant:

• PubMed - articles in all fields of medicine and biomedicine, with abstracts and links to additional resources from the National Library of Medicine, mid-1960's to present
  
  
• Women's Studies International - indexes journal articles and books on women's studies, feminism, and gender studies, 1972 to present

Multidisciplinary databases:

• Academic Search Complete - multi-disciplinary, full text database - inclides scholarly and popular articles

• JSTOR - all topics, up to 3 to 5 years ago

• Project Muse - picks up coverage where JSTOR leaves off

• SocINDEX with Full Text - articles on all aspects of sociology and other social science articles, with full text from 400 core sociology journals

• Web of Science - Interdisciplinary subject searching of scholarly articles in the social sciences (1956-present) physical & life sciences (1900 to present), and arts & humanities (1975 to present). Search for articles that cite known journal articles or books
  

See more databases on the Databases A-Z page.

Selected Journals
If you prefer to browse in journals (print and/or online) to see what's available, check out these titles:

• American Journal of Bioethics (also see the AJOB Blog)
• Bioethics (Clapp Library QH332 .B517)
• Christian Bioethics
• Developing World Bioethics (Clapp Library QH332 .B52)
• Eubios: Journal of Asian and International Bioethics
• Hastings Center Report (Clapp Library q R724 .H27)
• Journal of Health and Biomedical Law
• Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics (Clapp Library q KF3821.A15 L38)
• Journal of Medical Ethics
• Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (Clapp Library R723 .J66)
• Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (Clapp Library QH332 .K46)
• Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Journal
• Science and Engineering Ethics
• Second Opinion (1989-1995)
• Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics

Journals with special issues on feminist bioethics:

• American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, vol. 05, no. 2, 2006 (online only)
• Bioethics, vol. 15, no. 3, 2001 (Clapp Library QH332 .B517)
• Hypatia, vol. 4, no. 2, 1989 (Clapp Library HQ1101 .H96)
• Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 26, no. 4, 2001and vol. 23, no 2, 1998
  (Clapp Library R723 .J66)
• Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, March 1996

Bioethics Research Resources, Organizations, and Centers

Gateways for Bioethics Research
These sites are gateways to reliable resources for bioethics research -- including journal citations, bioethics texts, government publications, legal materials, and consumer health information

• Bioethics Information Resources - National Library of Medicine
• National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature - Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University

Bioethics Organizations and Centers

• FAB: International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
• Women's Bioethics Project (Blog)

• American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
• ANIS: Institute of Bioethics, Human Rights and Gender (Brazil)
• Hastings Center
• Kennedy Institute of Ethics
• National Institutes of Health - Bioethics Resources On the Web
• The President's Council on Bioethics
• Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics (South Africa)
• Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Healthcare
• World Health Organization - Ethics and Health

I'm Alana Kumbier, your friendly research librarian.

E-mail me - akumbier-at-wellesley-dot-edu
Call me - x3372

I'm happy to help you with your research. Just contact me!

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