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REFERENCE (All Topics)

Scientific Titles

• Encyclopedia of Bioethics (©1998)- REF 174.2 ENC
• Ethics and Values - REF 170.3 ETH
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology (©1987 + yearbooks 1999, 2000) - Ref 503 McG

General Resources

• Abridged Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature - REF 051 ABR
• Encyclopedia Americana - REF 030 ENC
• World Book Encyclopedia - REF 030 WOR

ABORTION/BIRTH CONTROL

• Abortion:  an eternal social and moral issue - 179 ABO
• Abortion and Social Justice - 179 HIL
• Ambivalence of Abortion - 179 FRA
• Birth Control in America:  the career of Margaret Sanger - 921 SAN
• Biomedical ethics:  opposing viewpoints - 174 BIO
• Kids still having kids:  talking about teen pregnancy -  306.7 BOD
• Margaret Sanger:  pioneer of birth control - 921 SPA
• Roe vs. Wade:  marking the 20th anniversary... - 179 FAU
• Teenage Sexuality - 306.7 TEE
• Time Was There - SP 900 TIM
• Who Shall Live? - 179 WHO

AGING

• Aging in America - 305.26 AGI
• Aging Population:  opposing viewpoints - 305.26 AGI

BIOMEDICAL

• Biomedical ethics:  opposing viewpoints - 174 BIO
• Control of Life - the 21st Century - 574.8 WAR
• Human life:  controversies and concerns - 179 HUM

EUTHANASIA

• Control of Life - the 21st Century - 574.8 WAR
• Death is a noun - 128 LAN
• Human life:  controversies and concerns - 179 HUM

GENETIC ENGINEERING

• Altered Fates:  Gene Therapy and the Retooling of  human life - 616.042 LYO
• Biotechnology - 660.6 BIO
• Genetic Engineering - 174 GEN
• Genetic Engineering -  575.2 STW
• Genome:  the autobiography of a species in 23 chapters - 599.93 RID
• Medical Ethics - 174 HEI
• Recent Revolutions in Biology - 574 COR
• Science Ethics -  174 NEW

Web Resources

ONLINE DATABASES

• Expanded Academic ASAP

For up-to-the-minute magazine articles on all topics.
 
• Health Reference Center ASAP

Contains magazine articles, reference book articles, and pamphlets from government and independent health organizations.
 
• Periodical Abstracts (PerAbs)

More scholarly articles found in research journals.
  
• SIRS Discoverer Deluxe

Contains magazine and newspaper articles in full text.  Separate searches may also be conducted in an encyclopedia and an almanac.
 

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

• Encyclopedia Britannica

The entire 32 volume set of the Britannica available online.  The site also offers searching of periodicals, a web subject site directory, and current events. Updated daily.  http://britannica.com

• Encarta Concise Encyclopedia (the free version)

Good, reliable, and free!  This source is a good starting point for research.  Result lists display accessible "free concise encyclopedia" articles, selected Web links from an MSN search, and related news articles from MSNBC.   http://encarta.msn.com
 

GENETIC ENGINEERING

• Human Genome Project - Ethical, Legal and Social Issues

http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/elsi/elsi.html
A Project of the U. S. Department of Energy and the National Institute of Health.

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