Dr. John McMillan, Editor, Otago Bioethics Report, welcomes articles or reports on biomedical ethics from India for publication. His journal incorporates the Newsletter of the Bioethics Research Centre of the University of Otago and carries an editorial, commentaries on ethical issues, book reviews, announcements and much more. Please write to Dr. McMillan at:
McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law (founded in 1986) offers a graduate course in bioethics. The Faculty of Medicine (Division of Experimental Medicine), Faculty of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts (Division of Philosophy) and Faculty of Law (Institute of Comparative Law) collaborate for this purpose. For details contact The Chairperson, Bioethics Graduate Studies Executive Committee, McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, 3690 Peel Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A lW9.
The Center for Biomedical Ethics at Case Western University of Medicine announces the inauguration of the course leading to the Master’s degree in Arts in Biomedical Ethics. The program starts in August 1995. For details contact Stephen G. Post, Associate Director for Educational Programs, Center for Biomedical Ethics at Case Western University of Medicine, 1900 Euclid Drive, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4976, U. S. A.
This database of bibliographic references on ethical and public policy issues in health care and biomedical research from 1973 to date is maintained at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington DC, 20057, USA. This database can be searched after obtaining a password and user identification code from the MEDLARS Management Section, National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20894. The database is also available on CD-ROM.
The Center’s primary publication is The Hastings Center Report – a long established bimonthly journal that now serves as a source of references to so many. One encounters papers by philosophers, legal experts, medical personnel, social scientists, students of the natural sciences and theologians. Through the courtesy of Dr. Daniel Callahan and his team, Forum for Medical Ethics Society has received three volumes of this publication (see section on Gifts). The Center also publishes IRB: A review of human subjects research once every two months. Cumulative indices to both these are available on 5.25 inch floppy disks.
Several special supplements to The Hastings Center Report have been published over the years including those on Theology, Religious Traditions and Bioethics; Animals, Science and Ethics; Mercy, Murder and Morality; Perspectives on Euthanasia; Genetic Grammar and AIDS.
Publications on audio-tape include Living with mortality, The nature of suffering and The future of medical education and Medical futility: the limits of patient autonomy.
The Center also published books, monographs, handbooks under its own imprint, under the imprint of Plenum Press and, more recently, under that of The Georgetown University Press (see below) and other University presses and publishing companies.
The Georgetown University Press serves the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and publishes several works on ethics. Their titles on biomedical ethics include Ethics of health care, Inquiries in bioethics, Medical ethics and Healthcare ethics.
The Press has recently announced publication of a new series entitled Hastings Center Studies in Ethics. The first in this series is entitled Life choices. It examines the answers to a wide range of provocative ethical questions on topics such as abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, life-sustaining treatment, reproductive technologies, organ transplantation and allocation of health care resources. Contributors to the volume include Drs. Ruth Macklin and James Childress.