LEWI - Bibliographic Database on Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities

Alternative title
LEWI - Literatur zur Ethik in den Wissenschaften

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Database code
BELIT: LEWI (IZEW)

Publication types

Books (monographs, reference books, textbooks, manuals, bibliographies, academic dissertations)
Book contributions (analytics)
Journal articles
Legal documents (laws, bills, decrees, court decisions)
Parliamentary and government publications
Grey literature
Reports
Guidelines
Statements
Proceedings
Electronic documents

Languages
English, German (mainly)

Links to full text
Yes

Number of records
42,383 (2011-11-14)

Update frequency
Irregularly

Controlled vocabulary used for indexing

Producer
International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)
University of Tübingen
Wilhelmstraße 19
72074 Tübingen
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)7071 29 77985
Email: bibliothek@izew.uni-tuebingen.de
http://www.izew.uni-tuebingen.de

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Notes
The bibliographic database LEWI provides references to literature on ethics in the sciences and humanities and has a particular focus on ethics of biotechnology. It contains the catalogues of the IZEW library and the library of the Chair for Ethics in the Life Sciences at the University of Tübingen.

LEWI is integrated into the ETHICSWEB portal via BELIT.

Keywords
Ethics of science; Ethics of biotechnology; Ethics of genetics; Agricultural ethics; Environmental ethics; Bioethics; Bibliographic databases