National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature

Abstract The collection publications and ephemera related to the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and its library, dating from 1971 to the 2010s. These include newsletters, promotional materials, and clippings. It includes a number of publications produced by the Bioethics Research Library, including Scope Notes (primers on bioethical topics), bioethics bibliographies, bioethics thesauruses, database guides, and lists of holdings. The KIE Newsletters include messages from the Institute's...

Abstract The collection consists of Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE) records that were created and/or maintained by LeRoy Walters. Walters joined the KIE as one of its first scholars, served as Director of the Bioethics Center from 1971 to 1993, and as Director of KIE from 1996 to 2000. The records primarily document establisment and development of the KIE, its library, and various bioethics information retrieval projects over the years. The collection also includes some of Walters teaching files,...