ETHICS RESOURCES ONLINE
Codes of Ethics
Case Studies
Theoretical Frameworks
Business Ethics
Education Ethics
Engineering Ethics
Legal Ethics
Medical Ethics
Nursing Ethics
Science Ethics
Other Resources
Resources in Business Ethics
Business Ethics Resources – by Sharon Stoerger MLS, MBS
*Site contains an enormous collection and summary of links to online publications, codes from different corporations, case studies, and other resources pertaining to business ethics. Extremely comprehensive and helpful.
Business Ethics Online: The Magazine of Corporate Responsibility
*Site contains current and archived back issues of the journal, news articles, and various resources for academics and journalists concerned with business ethics. An enormous and comprehensive list of links to other relevant organizations and associations.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics – Business Ethics Resources
*Site contains a variety of resources, including articles, presentations, and links.
Business Ethics (Canada)
*Site contains resources in business ethics, including articles and case studies
Business Ethics Forum
*Site contains a regularly updated blog, newsletter, and other resources in business ethics.
Codes of Ethics – Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at IIT
*Site contains a regularly updated library of codes of ethics in nearly all professions. Indexed by field.
Case Studies in Business Ethics
*Site contains a sizeable collection of links to sources of case studies in business ethics.
Links to Business Ethics Centers
*Site contains a large collection of links to business ethics centers.
Resources in Education Ethics
Utah Valley State College’s Ethics Across the Curriculum – Education Case Studies
*Site contains cases in education ethics ranging from plagiarism to school prayer.
Syracuse University Professional Development – Cases
*Site contains a collection of video case studies concerning issues in education ethics.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics – Case Studies in Education Ethics
*Site contains cases various areas of education ethics
Codes of Ethics (Education & Academia) – Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at IIT
*Site contains a regularly updated library of codes of ethics related to education professions.
Ethics Updates – Multimedia Resources on Academic Integrity
*Site contains regularly updated lectures, articles, honor codes, and other resources relevant to education ethics.
Resources in Engineering Ethics
Codes of Ethics (Engineering) – Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at IIT
*Site contains a regularly updated library of codes of ethics related to engineering professions.
The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science at Case Western
*Site contains an enormous collection of resources in engineering, science, computer ethics including case studies, essays, educational resources, teaching tools, problem solving aids, etc.
Web Clearinghouse for Engineering and Computing Ethics
*Site contains a fairly comprehensive collection of links to ethics centers, course syllabi, professional societies, codes, conferences, literature, reports, online articles, and case studies related to engineering and computer ethics. Some links are broken.
Penn State College of Engineering – Ethics Website
*Site contains a variety of resources in engineering ethics, including case studies, teaching aids, decision processes, theory guides, course resources, links to codes, relevant organizations, books, and articles.
Professional Ethics and Engineering: A Resource Guide 2nd Edition
*Site contains a bibliography in engineering ethics compiled for the National Institute of Engineering Ethics. Some links are broken.
Case Studies in Engineering Ethics
*Site contains links to a variety of sources of case studies in engineering ethics.
Engineering Ethics Centers
*Site contains links to various engineering ethics centers.
Association for Information Systems
*Site contains technology/computer ethics resources, including an extensive bibliography of cyberethics literature.
Computer Ethics
*Site contains computer ethics resources for students and teachers.
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
*Site contains a variety of resources in computer and technology ethics, including articles, cases studies, and legal references.
Computer Ethics Institute of the Brookings Institute
*Site contains a variety of resources in computer and technology ethics, including articles, conference announcements, bibliography, etc.
Ethics in Computing Website
*Site contains a variety of resource in computing ethics, including sections on free speech, property, social justice, and computer abuse.
Resources in Legal Ethics
Cornell Law School – American Legal Ethics Library
*Site contains a digital library of “both the codes or rules setting standards for the professional conduct of lawyers and commentary on the law governing lawyers,” searchable by jurisdiction or by topic.
LegalEthics.com
*Site contains various resources in legal ethics, including codes of professional conduct, advertising rules, ethics opinions, and other material searchable by state. Also, the site contains news and other articles related to legal ethics.
American Bar Association – Center for Professional Responsibility
*Site contains an enormous and comprehensive collection of resources in legal ethics, including model rules for professional and judicial conduct, ABA ethics opinions, links to various commissions, etc.
FindLaw – Ethics & Professional Responsibility
*Site contains an enormous collection of resources in legal ethics, including a searchable database in ethics and professional responsibility law, briefs, documents, articles and books, as well as a database of law firms that specialize in the area of ethics and professional responsibility.
Codes of Ethics (Law) – Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions
*Site contains a regularly updated library of codes ethics related to legal professions.
Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics
National Organization of Bar Counsel
*Site contains resources in legal ethics including links to rules of professional conduct, links to bar association and disciplinary authorities, links to various governmental and other national organizations related to legal ethics.
University of Minnesota Law School – Resources for Researching Legal Ethics
*Site contains a huge collection of resources for doing research in legal ethics, including standards and opinions, a listing of periodical indexes and bibliographies, links to texts and other useful websites.
Virtual Chase – Resources in Legal Ethics
*Site contains legal ethics resources, including links to databases and publications.
Georgetown Law Library – Legal Ethics Research Guide
*Site contains an excellent collection of resources for doing research in legal ethics, including links to codes, cases, bibliographies, etc.
Ethics and Lawyering
*Site contains a newsletter about new issues in legal ethics.
HierosGamos – Resources in Legal Ethics
*Site contains an enormous collections of resources, including links to codes, ethics opinions, commentary, and cases.
Legal Ethics Forum
*Site contains a variety of news articles related to legal ethics.
Resources in Medical Ethics
National Institute of Health – Bioethics Resources on the Web
*Site contains one of the most comprehensive sets of resources related to all aspects of bioethics, including tutorials for protection of human subjects, policies, documents, articles, institutions, links, etc.
Kennedy Institute (Georgetown) – National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
*Site contains an “Annual index containing over 7,000 new citations to documents in the bioethics area. Published each year since 1975, the bibliography is derived from bioethics citations added to the NLM databases. It provides the most comprehensive access to literature about the ethical, legal, and public policy aspects of health care and biomedical research.”
The President’s Council on Bioethics
*Site contains an enormous set of articles and discussion transcripts on bioethics and related public policy as discussed by the President’s council. Searchable by specific sub-topic.
AMA – Medical Ethics Resources
*Site contains codes, oaths, teaching strategies, and various other AMA sponsored resources in medical ethics.
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics – Biotechnology and Health Care Ethics
*Site contains an excellent array of resources, articles, case studies, and links related to biotechnology, health care ethics, and related sciences.
Codes of Ethics (Health Care) – Center for the Study of Ethics in the Profession at IIT
*Site contains a regularly update library of codes of ethics relative to the health care professions.
Karolinska Institutet – Links to Resources in Medical Ethics
*Site contains an enormous collections of links related to medical ethics and professional conduct.
International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
*Site contains resources in medical ethics related to a feminist perspective, including bibliographies, articles, links, etc.
U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Resources
*Site contains an enormous set of links and services available related to nearly all salient health care issues.
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities – Resource Links
*Site contains links related to academic centers and programs, bioethics in education, public policy, history of medicine, law, online texts and bibliographies, organizations and networks, etc.
Baylor College of Medicine – Links in Medical Ethics and Health Care Policy
*Site contains an enormous list of links to all things related to biomedical ethics, including other ethics centers, journals, articles, and online resources.
Bioethics.com
*Site contains daily news articles related to bioethics, commentary, and one of the most comprehensive list of links of online resources related to bioethics.
Bioethics.net
*Site contains news articles related to bioethics, the American Journal of Bioethics, blogs, featured commentary, and a vast array of other links related to bioethics.
Links to Other Centers – Medical and Bioethics
*Site contains a large collection of links to ethics research centers dedicated to the study of medical and bioethical issues.
Case Studies – Bioethics & Sciences
*Site contains a large collection of links to sources of ethics case studies in medical and related fields.
Resources in Nursing Ethics
American Nursing Association – Center for Ethics and Human Rights
*Site contains a variety of resources in nursing ethics, including codes, issue updates, topical resources and links, etc.
Nursing Ethics of Canada
*Site contains articles, news, codes, and other resources relevant to nursing ethics.
Boston College Wm. Connell School of Nursing – Nursing Ethics Site
*Site contains an excellent array of resources in nursing ethics, including a great literature review and bibliography (book and research abstracts), and ethics tools database, and a good collection of links to other resources in nursing ethics.
Medi-Smart – Nursing Ethics Resources
*Site contains a literature reviews, interactive tutorials (e.g. on informed consent), and a sizeable collection of reviewed website links related to nursing and health care ethics.
IUPUI Nursing Ethics Resources – by Jan Beckstrand
*Site contains a variety of resources in nursing ethics, including links to articles and other online texts, sample syllabi, and other web resources.
The College of St. Catherine Library – Ethics in Nursing
*Site contains a bibliography and research guide related to nursing ethics.
International Council of Nurses
*Site contains resources relevant to nursing ethics, including links, etc.
Codes of Ethics (Health Care) – Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at IIT
*Site contains a regularly update library of codes of ethics related to all areas of health care, including nursing ethics codes.
Case Studies – Bioethics & Sciences
*Site contains a large collection of links to sources of ethics case studies in medical and related fields.
Links to Other Centers (Medical & Bioethics)
*Site contains a large collection of research centers dedicated to issues in medical ethics and bioethics.
Resources in Science Ethics
The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science at Case Western
*Site contains an enormous collection of resources in engineering, science, computer ethics including case studies, essays, educational resources, teaching tools, problem solving aids, etc.
Ethics in Science
* Site contains science ethics resources, essays and case studies.
Genetics and Ethics
* “The goal of this site is to serve as a clearing house for information on the social, ethical and policy issues associated with genetic and genomic knowledge and technology.”
Bioethics & Science Ethics Case Studies
*Site contains a sizeable collection of links to sources of case studies relevant to ethics in sciences.
Codes of Ethics (Science) – The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at IIT
*Site contains a regularly updated library of codes of ethics related to science professions.
http://moral.wjh.harvard.edu/
*The Moral Sense Test is a Web-based study into the nature of human moral judgment. How do human beings decide what is right and wrong? To answer this question, the Harvard University Cognitive Evolution Laboratory has designed a series of moral dilemmas to probe the psychological mechanisms underlying our moral judgments.
http://poynter.indiana.edu/sas/lb/
*The Least of My Brothers is an on-line module or short course in the ethics of research with human subjects. Content for the module was developed by the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana University-Bloomington.
http://www.peta.org/
*People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), with more than a million members and supporters, is the largest animal rights organization in the world. Founded in 1980, PETA is dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals. PETA operates under the simple principle that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment.
Ethics Updates – The Moral Status of Animals
*Site contains multimedia lectures, articles, court cases, and other online resources relevant to ethical issues involving animals.
http://www.apa.org/science/research.html
*The American Psychological Association (APA) Code of Ethics was updated in 2002, and includes other legislation and advice for psychological scientists.