On-line Ethics Library

The Center's Carolyn and Ralph Thompson Library is a growing collection that now includes twenty journals, nearly 5,000 books, and over 400 videos and DVDs. While our collection is catalogued as part of the main University Library, this search bar limits your search to resources found only in the Ethics Library.

UPDATE

The Center for Christian Bioethics publishes and mails UPDATE, its complimentary newsletter, to 3,000 individuals and institutions throughout the world each quarter.

Volume 21, Number 3 (January 2007) (PDF - 1,242 K)
Volume 21, Number 2 (October 2006) (PDF - 970 K)
Volume 21, Number 1 (June 2006) (PDF - 1,120 K)
Volume 20, Number 3 (September 2005) (PDF - 624 K)
Volume 20, Number 2 (June 2005) (PDF - 221 K)
Volume 20, Number 1 (March 2005) (PDF - 294 K)
Volume 19, Number 4 (December 2004) (PDF)
Volume 19, Number 3 (September 2004) (PDF)
Volume 19, Number 2 (June 2004) (PDF)
Volume 19, Number 1 (March 2004) (PDF)
Volume 18, Number 4 (November 2003) (PDF)
Volume 18, Number 3 (January 2003) (PDF)
Volume 18, Number 2 (September 2002) (PDF)
Volume 18, Number 1 (July 2002) (PDF)
Volume 17, Number 4 (May 2002) (PDF)
Volume 17, Number 3 (March 2002)
Volume 17, Number 2 (November 2001)
Volume 17, Number 1 (March 2001) (PDF)
Volume 16, Number 4 (December 2000) (PDF)
Volume 16, Number 3 (November 2000) (PDF)
Volume 16, Number 2 (September 2000) (PDF)
Volume 16, Number 1 (March 2000) (PDF)
Volume 15, Number 4 (December 1999)
Volume 15, Number 3 (September 1999)
Volume 15, Number 2 (June 1999)
Volume 15, Number 1 (March 1999)
Volume 14, Number 4 (December 1998)
Volume 14, Number 3 (October 1998)
Volume 14, Number 2 (July 1998)
Volume 14, Number 1 (March 1998)
Volume 13, Number 4 (December 1997)
Volume 13, Number 3 (September 1997)
Volume 13, Number 2 (July 1997)
Volume 13, Number 1 (February 1997)
Volume 12, Number 2 (July 1996)
Volume 12, Number 1 (February 1996)
Volume 11, Number 4 (December 1995)
Volume 11, Number 3 (October 1995)
Volume 11, Number 2 (July 1995)

*Note: Volumes and Issues dating from 1984-1999 are in the process of being digitized and will be available shortly. Further, all issues of UPDATE will soon be available through the Loma Linda University Libraries Digital Archive.

The Jack Provonsha lectureships

Conceptual Foundations of Our Health Message

Conditional Immortality and Cognitive Neuroscience - Presented at the Jack W. Provonsha Lectureship for the Alumni Postgraduate Convention - March 7, 2000

The Practice of the Ministry of Medicine - Presented during the Jack W. Provonsha Lectureship for the Alumni Postgraduate Convention - March 9, 1998

Cocaine Addiction: The Nemesis of Modern Culture - Presented at the Jack W. Provonsha Lectureship for the Alumni Postgraduate Convention on March 3, 1997 -

Making Human Life Captive to Biomedical Technology: Christianity and the Demise of Human Values - Excerpts from the Eighth Annual Jack W. Provonsha Lecture - March 4, 1995

Minding Our Language: Metaphors and Biomedical Ethics , Jack W. Provonsha Lectureship presented at the School of Medicine Alumni Postgraduate Convention, Loma Linda University - March 5, 1994

Wages Through The Ages: The Ethics of Physician Income, Jack W. Provonsha Lectureship presented at the School of Medicine Alumni Postgraduate Convention, Loma Linda University - February 6, 1993

Personal and Professional Integrity in Clinical Medicine, Jack W. Provonsha Lectureship presented at the School of Medicine Alumni Postgraduate Convention, Loma Linda University - February 22, 1992

The Secularization of Medical Ethics, Jack Provonsha Lectureship presented at the School of Medicine Alumni Postgraduate Convention, Loma Linda University - February 23, 1991

Strategies for Moral Decision-Making: Confessions of a Moral Underling, Jack W. Provonsha Lectureship presented at the School of Medicine Alumni Postgraduate Convention, Loma Linda University - February 24, 1990

Character, Virtue, and Self-interest in the Ethics of the Professions, Jack W. Provonsha Lectureship presented at the School of Medicine Alumni Postgraduate Convention, Loma Linda University - Feb. 15, 1989

Seventh-day Adventist General Conference

Reports & guidelines on bioethical issues

Guidelines on Care for the Dying
Guidelines on Genetic Engineering

General Conference statements

Seventh-day Adventist General Conference Statements Concerning Health, Life Style, and Social Issues

Christian Medical and Dental Society

Opinions on Ethical/Social Issues

The Loma Linda University Physician's Oath

Interesting items our readers have found

The Limitations of Secular Medical Ethics
"The Unbearable Rightness of Bedside Rationing"

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