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Philosophy and Bioethics This is a selective list of resources for locating information on philosophy. This guide is arranged in the following sections:	Subject Librarian: Deborah Gaspar Location: Gelman Library E-mail: dgaspar@gwu.edu Phone: 202-994-1333 Updated: August 2007 Need Help? Click
Best Places to Start Books on or by Individual Philosophers Finding Journal Articles via Aladin Select Internet Resources Special Topics:  Bioethics

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Best Places to Start

Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Location: REF B 41 .C35 1999

Entries in this text are brief, excellent introductions.  The coverage of topics is comprehensive. 

 

Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Macmillian, 2006.
Location: Gale Virtual Reference Library (ALADIN); also available in print REF B 51 .E53 2006
The print version of this resource is ten volumes providing a comprehensive range of topics.  Articles are well written and well documented.

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. University of Tennessee at Martin.
Location: http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/
The entries for major theories and philosophers are very detailed and each has a bibliography. The interface is simple and navigation is easy.

Books on or by Individual Philosophers

To find books written by a particular philosopher, search in the ALADIN Catalog using the philosopher's name as author. To find books about a particular philosopher, use the Advanced Search option. Enter the philosopher's name in the search box and search in the 'Subject' field.

Finding Journal Articles via Aladin

Philosopher's Index. 1940 to current
Location: ALADIN
The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

JSTOR. Dates vary.
Location: ALADIN
Full text access to eighteen important philosophy journals. Coverage extends from the nineteenth century to 1998.

Project MUSE. Dates vary.
Location: ALADIN
Full text access to fourteen philosophy journals. Coverage extends from 1995 to current.

Academic Search Premier. Dates vary.
Location: ALADIN
This general database includes 199 journals focused on philosophy and many articles are full text. In order to limit your search to scholarly journals, be sure to check the box next to 'Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals.

ProQuest Research Library Plus. Dates vary.
Location: ALADIN
Many full text articles. In order to limit your search to scholarly journals, be sure to check the box next to 'Show articles from peer reviewed publications only'.

ATLA Religion Database. 1949 to current
Location: ALADIN
Provides indexing and abstracts to works related to the study of religion, including the philosophy of religion.

 

Select Internet Resources

 

PSearch. University of Hong Kong.
Location: http://philosophy.hku.hk/psearch/info.php
pSearch is a customized search engine dedicated to authoritative philosophy-related web pages.

Philosophy: Information Gateway UK Resource Discovery Network.
Location: http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/philosophy/
Internet resources "selected and described by a librarian or academic." The catalogue is browsable or searchable by subject area.

 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University.
Location: http://plato.stanford.edu/

Excellent source with authoritative articles.  The table of contents includes articles that are not yet available as well as those that are already posted.

Voice of the Shuttle: Philosophy. University of California at Santa Barbara
Location: http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2724
Excellent resource. Comprehensive subject listings, including philosophical fields (such as Aesthetics, Ethics, Metaphysics), modern philosophical movements (such as Existentialism and Marxism), and individual philosophers and their works. Direct links to listservs, academic programs, international conferences, and over thirty online journals.

 

Special Topics:  Bioethics

Encyclopedia of Bioethics. New York, Macmillan, 2004.
Location: Gale Virtual Reference Library (ALADIN)
This resource covers a wealth of topics on the ethics of health professions, animal research, population control and the environment, the set helps researchers to consider the impact of new scientific knowledge and its potential to harm or benefit present and future generations.

Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues in Biotechnology New York, Wiley, 2000.
Location: Gale Virtual Reference Library (ALADIN)

This electronic book provides articles on a range of ethical issues including treatment of animals, eugenics, and cloning.  Additional information on legal issues in specific countries is also included. 

Bioethics Resources on the Web. National Institutes of Health.
Location: http://www.nih.gov/sigs/bioethics/
A well-organized and easy to navigate site that provides links to resources across the Internet.

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