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Rose Kennedy and her children, 1919

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Collection on Women, Infants and Children

The National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature is home to the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Collection on Women, Infants and Children. This collection, established on April 14, 2003 on the occasion of the awarding of an honorary degree to her daughter, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, is named in Mrs. Kennedy's honor in remembrance of her lifelong support for the welfare of the family.

Interested readers are invited to use the Collection, located in Healy Hall 102 on the main campus of Georgetown University. The Collection contains over 650 books covering health care and research for women, infants, and children. All the books in the Collection are in the library. Although materials do not circulate, photocopiers are available in the library.

Additional references to periodical literature on the following topics are also available:

• fetal health care
• fetuses as research subjects
• health care for women
• health care for infants and children
• minors as research subjects
• women as research subjects

We welcome your suggestions for additions to the Collection.

Doris Mueller Goldstein, M.L.S., M.A., Director
National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature

Lucinda Fitch Huttlinger, M.L.S., M.M., Curator
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Collection on Women, Infants and Children

Photograph by Bachrach Studios, from the John F. Kennedy Library collection.

Citations are from the ETHXWeb database, maintained by the NRCBL. NRCBL databases are updated twice a month.

Further assistance can be obtained by calling 1-888-BIO-ETHX (1-888-246-3849) toll free in the United States and Canada, or by email to: bioethics@georgetown.edu.

Last updated: May 2008