Health & Medicine : Ethics & Legal Issues

Forensic Science Reference List
ash.lab.r1.fws.gov/
The Forensic Science Web Server provides pointers to information sources onthe application of natural and physical sciences to legal matters. Includeslinks to medical, educational and governmental sites.

Institute for Jewish Medical Ethics
www.hia.com/hia/medethic/
The Institute For Jewish Medical Ethics of the Hebrew Academy of SanFrancisco seeks to identify underlying principles of Jewish law as theyrelate to medicine and analyze the efficacy of these principles as theyapply to specific medical problems. Visitors can learn more about theInstitute and access information about its annual conferences at thissite.

The Journal of Biblical Ethics in Medicine
www.usit.net/public/CAPO/jbem.html
The Center for the Advancement of Paleo Orthodoxy (CAPO), a biblical andhistoric consortium, provides articles on a variety of topics, includingethical and religious conflicts in medical practice and teen sexuality.Visitors can link to CAPO's home page, the Augustine Institute (Ethics) orthe Calvin Institute (Theology).

MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
ccme-mac4.bsd.uchicago.edu/CCMEHomePage.html
The MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicagoposts course and faculty information here. The site advises that "Ethics isEasy. . .Life is Hard" and lists an index to medical and bioethics sites onthe Net.

Medical College of Wisconsin Bioethics Online Service
www.mcw.edu/bioethics/
The Bioethics Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin maintains thisinformational site, featuring news and announcements, academictexts andperiodicals, database resources, and more. Includes keyword searches forinternal documents and links to major Internet search engines.

Psychiatry & the Law
ua1vm.ua.edu/~jhooper/
Psychiatry & the Law, the forensic psychiatry resource page of theUniversity of Alabama, offers information about legal issues surroundingmental illness. Visit here for landmark cases, U.S. Supreme Court Rulings,links to psychiatry and law databases and more.