Step 1: Skim the Table of contents and indexes of reference books on bioethics. This will give you an overview of what topics might fall within the realm of bioethics.
Step 2: Look at Websites of organizations involved in bioethics issues. Try to get a feel for what topics are hot right now.
Step 3: Skim some Bioethics blogs. Once again, try to get a feel for what topics are hot right now
Step 4: Jot down some topics. Look at what has been published in Recent journal articles. If someone already wrote your exact paper, then change your topic and try again. Eliminate any topics which have been done to death. But make sure you can find enough material to write the paper using research and not just your imagination.
Bioethics and the Law by
Bioethics and the Law takes a multidisciplinary approach that combines legal discussion with jurisprudential, philosophical, and sociological materials. Strong expressions of different points of view highlight debates about bioethical issues. The text underscores the need to mediate between the law's focus on broad rules and the bioethicist's concern with context and detail. Students are required to consider the ethical implications of health care as a business, face the shifting parameters of the provider/patient relationship in healthcare, and understand the role of government in designing and implementing healthcare programs such as Medicaid and Medicare. Bioethics and the Law supplements the traditional focus of bioethics on the interest of the individual with a second focus on the socio-economic developments that shape healthcare. Connecting broad public healthcare issues to concerns of the individual patient/healthcare consumer, the text promotes understanding of unsettling and complex situations and shows the implications of bioethical developments for understandings of personhood. A helpful glossary defines basic terms and several short appendices summarize recent developments in science and technology.
The Oxford handbook of bioethics by 
The Penn Center guide to bioethics by 
The Cambridge textbook of bioethics by 
Bioethics and Law in a Nutshell by
This book provides a concise analysis of areas in which the law has addressed issues in bioethics. Topics include assisted reproductive techniques and family-making, limitations on reproduction (including abortion, contraception and sterilization), the role of ethical and religious beliefs of health care professionals, the definition of death, end-of-life decision-making (including physician assisted death), genetics, research involving human subjects (including issues related to conflicts of interest), stem cell research, organ transplantation, and other emerging topics. The book provides an excellent introduction to the process of ethics decision-making as well as useful support for students.
A good paper topic is:
1. interesting to you (because you have to work with it and spend sooo much time reading about it)
2. related to current hot topics (so your final product will be publishable)
3. different from what's already published (you need to say something new in order to have a publishable paper).
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