Health Sciences & Law
This research guide can also serve as a library resources page for the Bioethics Law & Society seminar, the Genetics: Issues in Law seminar, the Health Science Concentration seminar, and the Law & Bioscience seminar.
Library Catalogs and Databases:
Hastings Online Catalog - Encore
Hastings
Online Catalog - Classic View
Tips: Try using the "keyword" or "advanced search" boxes for searching the catalog.
Notice the subject headings that appear in the full record for each title. Search further by clicking through the linked subject headings that are relevant to your topic.
The following are a few Library of Congress subject headings that you may find useful in a "subject" search:
Bioethics
Genetic Engineering
Genetics
Medical Ethics
Medical Genetics -- Moral and Ethical Aspects
Medical Sciences
Hastings Library E-Journals Search or browse the online full-text Journals, Magazines and Newspapers available in our online databases. Search for Journals cited in PubMed Central (Full text journal articles).
FirstSearch (ID and Barcode required off-campus)
Online access to WorldCat (holdings of many of the world's library collections, millions of records in over 400 languages), Electronic Collections Online (ECO) (access to journals published on the Internet), and ArticleFirst (an index to journal articles published since 1990). Use FirstSearch to electronically submit interlibrary loan requests for books held at other libraries.
San Francisco Public Library
Borrowing privileges are available with proof of California residency. Your SFPL card number allows remote access to online databases that cover journals in the social sciences, newspapers and magazines.
University
of California, San Francisco Library
Borrowing privileges are available at UCSF Parnassus Library with a current Hastings ID and a second government-issued form of identification, such as a California driver's license. The UCSF Library Circulation Desk telephone number is (415) 476-2336.
Hastings students may use the public terminals in the UCSF Parnassus Library to access Galen, UCSF's digital library. Accessible only on the UCSF campus, this system combines the resources of the California Digital Library, UCSF's own databases and online journals, and access to the full text of articles on PubMed. Printing from UCSF computers is $0.14 per page.
UCSF's Parnassus Library is located at 530 Parnassus Avenue, near the corner of Parnassus Avenue and 3rd Avenue in San Francisco's Inner Sunset district. The campus is served by SF MUNI bus lines 6, 43, 71, and the N-Judah streetcar. For more information, call (415) 476-2334.
University of
California, Berkeley Libraries
Borrowing privileges for some campus libraries, including the Gardner (MAIN) Stacks, can be obtained at the Privileges Desk on the first floor of the Doe Library. A current U.C. ID and semester's proof of registration is required. For more information, click here.
Interdisciplinary Databases:
Biotechnology Law Report (ID and Barcode required off-campus
Covers "...the evolving body of law and government regulation concerning biotechnology, particularly in the industries in which new products from these technologies are developing the most rapidly: pharmaceuticals, chemicals, agriculture, food processing, energy, mineral recovery, and waste treatment. All legal aspects are rapidly reported, and critical and often hard-to-obtain documents are reproduced."
BNA Health Law Reporter (ID and Barcode required off-campus)
A weekly service on the latest legal developments that influence the health care industry, including new cases, federal and state legislation, rules from federal regulators, and enforcement trends.
Oxford Journals Online (ID and Barcode required off-campus)
Searchable online access to the full range of journals published by Oxford University. Search in individual or mulitple titles, or by subject areas: Humanities, Law, Life Sciences, Mathematics and Physical Science, Medicine and Social Sciences.
Coverage: 1849 - current; full text for all titles available from 1996 - current.
ProQuest Health and Medical Complete (ID and Barcode required off-campus)
ProQuest Health and Medical Complete provides in-depth coverage from over 1,500 publications with over 1,250 available in full text and of these, over 900 include MEDLINE® indexing. The journals cover all major clinical and healthcare disciplines, including medical sciences, immunology, pharmacy and pharmacology, nursing, physical fitness and hygiene, surgery, and others.
ProQuest Psychology Journals (ID and Barcode required off-campus)
ProQuest Psychology Journals covers a wide range of topics from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications. In addition to clinical and social psychology, it also provides coverage of related disciplines including genetics, psychology of business and economics, addiction, linguistics, neurology, social welfare, and more.
ProQuest Research Library (ID and Barcode required off-campus)
A large collection of journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of subjects such as science, business, art, literature and psychology. You can search the whole Library or select the specific databases you want to search, including the "Health Module," which includes periodicals on health subjects such as medical conditions, substance abuse, insurance, and health policy.
PsycNET (ID and Barcode required off-campus)
PsycNET includes PsychBOOKS, PsycARTICLES, and PsycINFO. PsycBOOKS is a searchable full-text database of scholarly books dating back to 1806 from the American Psychological Association and other distinguished publishers. Also a searchable full-text databse, PsycARTICLES includes over 39,000 articles spanning a wide range of subjects from general psychology to specialized areas within psychology. PsycINFO® is a bibliographic database published by the APA. It covers all psychology disciplines, plus related articles from education, business, medicine, nursing, law, and social work. It provides abstracting and indexing for nearly 2,000 key psychology titles, with coverage dating from the 1800s.
Lexis - Area of Law by Topic: Medical
Westlaw - Topical Materials by Area of Practice: Health and Medicine
Law Review Articles:
HeinOnline (Extensive database of pdf scans of Law Reviews, 1890's to current)(ID and Barcode required off-campus)
Full Text Law Reviews (selected Law Reviews, 1990's to current): [Lexis] [Westlaw]
Index to Legal Periodicals (comprehensive law review index, 1980 to
current):
[Lexis]
[Westlaw]
[Internet
database (includes ILP Retrospective (1903-1980)) - ID and Barcode required off-campus]
Legal Resource Index/LegaTrac (comprehensive law review, legal newspaper & bar ass'n journal index, 1980-current): [Lexis] [Westlaw] [Internet database - ID and Barcode required off-campus]
United States National Library of Medicine:
NLM
MeSH Browser
Medical Subject Headings used on all NLM systems.
MEDLINE
via PubMed
Access to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed interface to MEDLINE.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central is the U.S. National Institutes of Health's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Locatorplus
The NLM's catalog of books, journals, audiovisuals and access points
to other medical
research tools.
NLM
Gateway
The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems
at the US National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches
MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, Health Services
Research Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE:
Directory of Health Organizations.
U.S. National Library of Medicine homepage
Bioethics Websites:
Bioethics Research Library at Georgetown University
This site is from the Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute of Ethics
at Georgetown University. Includes
the searchable databases:
ETHX
on the Web (journal articles, analytics, bills, laws, court decisions,
reports, and news articles relating to bioethics and professional ethics)
and GenETHX (books, journal articles, analytics, bills,
laws, court decisions, reports, news articles and audiovisuals).
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
The web site for the Federal office. Contains meeting
transcripts and working papers.
Biotechnology
and Health Care Ethics
Articles, cases, and links on medical ethics, biotechnology and ethics, clinical ethics, end-of-life decision making, culturally competent health care, and public health policy from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University.
Bioethics.net
A clearinghouse of current news and information on bioethics from
the Alden March Bioethics Institute, the publisher of the American
Journal of Bioethics (AJOB). Includes selected articles
and commentary from AJOB, and a blog hosted by the editors
of AJOB.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Heath maintains an excellent page of links to Bioethics Resources on the Web.
U.S. Government Websites:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence
National Research Council (NRC)
Noteworthy Titles and Websites:
50 State Surveys
A Westlaw database, SURVEYS contains surveys of state and federal statutes on various topics.
American Journal of Law and Medicine.
(K1 .M57 Fifth Floor Stacks)
Also available online through HeinOnline, Proquest, and LegalTrac, and on Westlaw (1993-current).
Attorney's Textbook of Medicine.
A Matthew Bender title on Lexis.
Bibliography
of Bioethics. Washington, D.C.: Kennedy Institute of Ethics
(Z6675.E8 B53 Sixth Floor Stacks)
A research project of the Kennedy Institute, Center for
Bioethics at Georgetown University, this annual index contains citations to bioethics documents published from 1975-2006.
BioLaw. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1986-
(KF3821 .B5 Fifth Floor Stacks (recent volumes in Research Alcove))
California Powers of Attorney and Health Care Directives. Oakland, CA: Continuing Education of the Bar--California, 2008-
(KFC336.C35 Research Alcove)
Consent
to Treatment: A Practical Guide. Fay A. Rozovsky.
4th ed., Gaithersburg, Md.: Aspen, 2007
(KF3827.I5 R69 2007 Research Alcove)
Encyclopedia
of Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues in Biotechnology. Thomas H.
Murray, and Maxwell J. Mehlman eds.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000
(TP248.16 .E54 2000 Sixth Floor Stacks)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Encyclopedia
of Bioethics. Warren Thomas Reich, editor in chief.
Rev. ed., New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1995
(QH332 .E52 1995 Sixth Floor Stacks)
Appendix (pp.2599-2842) contains codes, oaths, and directives related
to bioethics.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genetics & Inherited Conditions. Jeffrey A. Knight, editor.
Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2010
(RB155.5 .G464 2010 Sixth Floor Stacks and Online)
An A-Z encyclopedia offering non-specialist information about 460 topics in genetics.
The
Hastings Center Report. (http://www.thehastingscenter.org)
Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life
Sciences
(R724 .H27 Sixth Floor Stacks (unbound issues at Circulation))
Also available in the ProQuest Research Library: Hastings Center Report [Feb 1988 (Volume 18, Issue 1) - current] (ID and Barcode required off-campus).
Health Affairs: The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere.
(RA410.A1 H36 Sixth Floor Stacks (Vols. 11-current; unbound issues at Circulation))
Also available online (with a 1-year delay) through Highwire Press and Proquest (ID and Barcode required off-campus). The Health Affairs website has additional content, including Web Exclusives and the Health Affairs blog.
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
(R15 .A48 Sixth Floor Stacks (2010-current; unbound issues at Circulation Desk))
Select coverage also available online.
Available in print from 1947-current at the San Francisco Public Library.
Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics.
(RA395.A3 L382 Sixth Floor Stacks (Vols. 21-current; unbound issues at Circulation))
Also available online through ProQuest (with a 1-year delay) and on Westlaw (1998-current).
Journal of Medical Genetics.
Available online through HighWire Press (with a 1-year delay) and PubMed (1964-2006). ID and Barcode required off-campus.
Legal Perspectives in Bioethics. New York: Routledge, 2008
(KF3821 .L445 2008 Fifth Floor Stacks)
Nature Genetics.
Available online through Proquest (with a 1-year delay). ID and Barcode required off-campus.
New England Journal of Medicine.
(R11 .N43 Sixth Floor Stacks (1988-current; unbound issues at Circulation))
Available online through the publisher and Proquest (with a 1-year delay; ID and Barcode required off-campus). Also available through Westlaw (1985-current).
Public Library of Science
Open access journals on a variety of subjects, including biology, medicine, genetics, and pathogens.
The Right to Die: The Law of End-of-life Decision Making. Alan Meisel.
3rd ed., New York: Aspen, 2004-
(KF3827 .E87 M45 2004 Research Alcove)
Sourcebook in Bioethics: A Documentary History.
Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1998
(R724 .S62 1998 Research Alcove)
Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics.
(K29 .A335 Fifth Floor Stacks (unbound issues at Circulation))
Also available on HeinOnline.
Library Assistance:
Library Hours:
Monday - Friday: 8:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Saturday: 9:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Sunday: 9:00 AM - 11:00
PM
Getting Help with your Project: The Reference Librarians are available to help you plan your research strategy and to help you find the resources that might be useful in your project. It is best to call (or e-mail) one of the Reference Librarians, and make an appointment before coming in to discuss your project.
Reference Librarians:
Hilary Hardcastle, 565-4792
Chuck Marcus, 565-4838
Vincent Moyer, 565-4752
Tony Pelczynski, 565-4768
Grace Takatani, 565-4808
Linda Weir, 565-4761
Reference Desk Hours:
Mon-Fri: 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Sat: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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Posted on August 24, 2011 by Jodi Collova, Temporary Reference Librarian
Last updated on September 23, 2011 by Beth Gemellaro, Temporary Reference Librarian