Waggoner Library: BS: Health Care Administration: Culture & Ethics of Healthcare

"Health care ethics (a/k/a "medical" ethics or "bioethics"), at its simplest, is a set of moral principles, beliefs and values that guide us in making choices about medical care. At the core of health care ethics is our sense of right and wrong and our beliefs about rights we possess and duties we owe others." Read more...

This page has links to journals, trade publications, newspaper and video resources relating to the field of healthcare ethics.

Ethics related databases

Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window A multidisciplinary database covering many subjects with content from journal articles, newspaper resources, magazines, and audio & video files.
ATLA Religion with ATLA Serials This link opens in a new window An online collection of major religion and theology journals selected by leading religion scholars and theologians.
Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included. Searchable cited references. It is a superior database for full-text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, and economics. Additional full-text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, and more.
Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine This link opens in a new window This database is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on a complete range of healthcare topics. Ethics, patient care, management, legal and policy issues are some of the topics covered.
PubMed Central® This link opens in a new window PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). Over 3.8 million articles.

Browsing journals relating to medical ethics

Browse or search within journals by title or by topic. Most have PDF downloads or will link to a library database for the full text. Click here to Browse eJournals (not print) Subject.

Browse by topic: Medical Ethics Journals in the subject area of medical ethics from the resource Browzine.

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Bioethics
2005-current. New Full Text unavailable for 12 months from time of publication.
BMC Medical Ethics
Browse this journal from 2005 to the present for ethics-related articles. New Full Text unavailable for 12 months from time of publication.
Journal of Medical Ethics
1992-current. New Full Text unavailable for 12 months from time of publication.