“Cognitive Disability and Moral Status” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cognitive-disability/
“Human/Non-Human Chimeras” (especially sections on the Human Dignity Argument and Moral Status Framework) in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chimeras/
Preamble and Articles in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
President’s Council on Bioethics, Reproduction & Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies (Washington, DC: The President’s Council on Bioethics, 2004)
http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/pcbe/
NIH Stem Cell Information
http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/basics1.asp
Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, Embryonic, Fetal and Post-natal Animal–Human Mixtures: An Ethical Discussion (Edinburgh, UK: Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, 2006)
http://www.schb.org.uk/
President’s Council on Bioethics, Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President’s Council on Bioethics (Washington, DC: The President’s Council on Bioethics, 2008)
http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/pcbe/reports/human_dignity/human_dignity_and_bioethics.pdf
Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
http://cbhd.org
Code of Federal Regulations, Title 45 (Public Welfare), Part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects)
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/45cfr46.html