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American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB)
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Description: "AJOB provides a rapid, peer-reviewed collection of scholarship about emerging issues in bioethics. The Journal is available in a unique print and internet format. Subscribers receive access to the ajobonline portal, which features on-line news updates, live bioethics events, rankings of bioethics graduate programs, and other materials. AJOB is an authoritative forum for the discussion of new developments in the whole range of questions in bioethics, including both perennial and emergent controversies in cell and molecular genetics, reproductive technology, end of life care, human research, distribution of resources, transplantation, diversity, and health services research. Each quarterly issue features a target article accompanied by twenty peer commentaries, as well as a response to the peer commentary by the target author. Essays, photography and graphic arts, electronic media, book reviews, and comments on the law and medical science make the journal an essential resource."

Artificial Intelligence and Law
Publisher: Kluwer
Description: The scope of Artificial Intelligence and Law is as follows: Theoretical or empirical studies in artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, jurisprudence, linguistics, or philosophy which addresses the development of formal or computational models of legal knowledge, reasoning, and decision making. In-depth studies of innovative artificial intelligence systems that are being used in the legal domain. Studies which address the ethical and social implications of the field of Artificial Intelligence and Law.

Bioethics
Publisher: Blackwells
Description: As medical technology continues to develop, the subject of bioethics has an ever increasing practical relevance for all those working in philosophy, medicine, law, sociology, public policy, education and related fields. Bioethics provides a forum for well-argued articles on the ethical questions raised by current issues such as: abortion, euthanasia, AIDS, in vitro fertilisation, genetic engineering, and experimentation on embryos. These questions are considered on the basis of concrete ethical, legal and policy problems, or in terms of the fundamental concepts, principles and theories used in discussions of such problems.

Bioethics Bulletin
Description: The newsletter of the UB Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care.

Bioethics Examiner
Description: From the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota. Available in Adobe Acrobat PDF.

Bioethics Forum

Bioethics Literature Review
Description: "The Bioethics Literature Review is the only monthly publication that offers comprehensive and interdisciplinary coverage of biomedical literature. Surveying the essential medical literature, Bioethics Literature Review moves further to cover key publications in law, public policy, the social sciences, and allied health fields. More than 300 journals are scanned each month."
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Biology and Philosophy
Publisher: Kluwer
Description: Biology and Philosophy is aimed at a broad readership, drawn from both the sciences and the humanities. The journal subscribes to no specific school of biology, nor of philosophy, and publishes work from authors of all persuasions and all disciplines. The editorial board reflects this attitude in its composition and its world-wide membership. Each issue of Biology and Philosophy carries one or more discussions or comparative reviews, permitting the in-depth study of important works and topics.

BMC Medical Ethics
Description: "BMC Medical Ethics is an online journal publishing research articles after full peer review. All articles are published, without barriers to access, immediately upon acceptance. BMC Medical Ethics publishes original research articles in the ethics of medical research and practice."

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Description: The Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics is designed to address the challenges of biology, medicine and healthcare and to meet the needs of professionals serving on healthcare ethics committees in hospitals, nursing homes, hospices and rehabilitation centres. The aim of the journal is to serve as the international forum for the wide range of serious and urgent issues faced by members of healthcare ethics committees, physicians, nurses, social workers, clergy, lawyers and community representatives.

Christian Bioethics
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Description: "Christian Bioethics is a non-ecumenical, interdenominational journal, exploring the content-full commitments of the Christian faiths with regard to the meaning of human life, sexuality, suffering, illness, and death within the context of medicine and health care. The Journal seeks not to gloss over the differences among the Christian faiths, but rather to underscore the content-full moral commitments that separate and give moral substance. It is interdenominational in involving editors and inviting contributions from different Christian perspectives."

Community Ethics
Description: The newsletter for the Consortium Ethics Program (CEP) at the University of Pittsburgh. The Consortium Ethics Program (CEP) is an ongoing project in biomedical ethics education, co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Medical Ethics and the Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania.

Electroneurobiología
Description: "Buenos Aires City Govt.'s Electroneurobiology Journal. Philosophy of consciousness and cognition, brain-mind biophysics, memory and time issues (philosophy & physics), sociology of neuroscience, psychology - Mostly in English."

Ethics and Medicine
Description: "Since 1984, Ethics & Medicine has tackled the tough issues of bioethics from an international perspective. The journal reasserts the Hippocratic consensus in medicine on the conviction that only a robust medical professionalism is able to withstand the challenges of emerging technologies and their clinical applications."

Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics
Description: EJAIB is the official journal of the Asian Bioethics Association (ABA) and the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) Bioethics Program. It aims to review and update news and trends in bioethics from around the world. Bioethics is broadly defined as life ethics, including both medical and environmental ethics, and environmental, ethical, legal and social issues arising from biotechnology. To publish research papers, and relevant news, and letters, on topics within Asian Bioethics, promoting research in bioethics in the Asian region, and contributing to the interchange of ideas within and between Asia and global international bioethics.
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Hastings Center Report
Description: "The Hastings Center Report was the first periodical devoted specifically to ethical issues in medicine, the life sciences, and the professions. This bimonthly journal offers a public forum in which the many disciplines and professions that contribute to bioethics - philosophy, medicine, law, the natural and social sciences, theology - can join in mutually enriching conversation on common ground. Its goal is to stimulate the moral imagination of its diverse readers in articles that are both intellectually rigorous and generally accessible."
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Health Care Analysis
Publisher: Kluwer
Description: "Health Care Analysis is a journal for everyone interested in philosophical issues in health care which seeks to support the conversation between philosophy and policy. It publishes contributions from philosophers, social scientists, other health-related academics and policy analysts, health care educators, health care professionals and managers."

Health Ethics Today
Description: "Health Ethics Today is a publication of the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre and the Provincial Health Ethics Network, which was first produced in 1997. Prior to that the Centre had produced The Bioethics Bulletin from 1993-95."

HEC Forum: HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum
Publisher: Kluwer
Description: HEC Forum is an international, peer-reviewed bimonthly publication featuring original contributions of interest to practicing physicians, nurses, social workers, risk managers, attorneys, ethicists, and other HEC committee members. Contributions are welcomed from any pertinent source, but the text should be written to be appreciated by HEC members and lay readers.

Issues in Medical Ethics
Description: "Issues in Medical Ethics is the quarterly journal of the Forum for Medical Ethics Society, a not-for-profit, voluntary organisation based in Mumbai, India. Through essays, debates, reports, book reviews case studies and other material, IME provides a platform for discussion on health care ethics with special reference to the problems of developing countries like India."

Journal of Biolaw and Business
Description: "An international quarterly journal for attorneys, biotechnology and pharmaceutical executives, biomedical researchers, investors, and other professionals involved in the biotechnology and life science sectors. In the forefront of a new era, BioLaw provides practical guidance, expert insights and substantive analysis of 21st century biotechnology law, business, regulatory, and policy matters."

Journal of Clinical Ethics
Description: "The Journal of Clinical Ethics is written for and by physicians, nurses, attorneys, clergy, ethicists, and others whose decisions directly affect patients. More than 70 percent of recent articles have been authored or coauthored by physicians. It is a refereed, peer-reviewed journal."

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
Description: The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics is a professional quarterly read by more than 5,000 doctors, lawyers, nurses, ethicists, educators, hospital and public administrators, risk managers, pharmacists, social workers, and students. The journal is peer reviewed and provides articles on such timely topics as health care quality and access, managed care, ethics committees, assisted dying, genetics, malpractice, long-term care, palliative care and pain management, reproductive health, and public health. The journal reviews significant policy decisions, books, and recent developments in health law.

Journal of Medical Ethics
Description: First published in 1975, Journal of Medical Ethics has become a leading international journal, which reflects the whole field of medical ethics. Contributions to the journal originate in many countries and disciplines, and all undergo rigorous assessment. The journal features orignial articles on ethical aspects of health care, as well as case conferences, book reviews, editorials, correspondence, news and notes. Occasional series focus on teaching medical ethics, experiences of medico-moral dilemmas (At the Coalface - Medical Ethics in Practice) and medical ethics in literature.
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Journal of Medical Humanities
Publisher: Kluwer
Description: Journal of Medical Humanities is seeking manuscripts that reflect its enlarged focus on interdisciplinary inquiry in medicine and medical education. Such inquiry can emerge in the following ways: (1) from the medical humanities, which includes literature, history, philosophy, and bioethics as well as those areas of the social and behavioral sciences that have strong humanistic traditions; (2) from cultural studies, a multidisciplinary activity involving the humanities; women's, African-American, and other critical studies; media studies and popular culture; and sociology and anthropology, which can be used to examine medical institutions, practice and education with a special focus on relations of power; and (3) from pedagogical perspectives that elucidate what and how knowledge is made and valued in medicine, how that knowledge is expressed and transmitted, and the ideological basis of medical education.

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
Description: "The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy is the leading and one of the oldest journals in Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine. All major indexing and abstracting services list JMP including Index Medicus/Medline. The majority of the issues are thematic with recent issues including 'Critiques of Embryo Experimentation', 'The Best Interests Standard for Treating Children', 'Bioethics, Expert Witnesses and the Courts'."

Journal of Near-Death Studies
Publisher: Kluwer
Description: "Journal of Near-Death Studies, sponsored by the International Association for Near-Death Studies, is the only periodical devoted specifically to explorations on the nature and scope of human consciousness as it is affected by the prospect or occurrence of clinical death. The journal publishes articles on near-death experiences, and the empirical effects and theoretical implications of such events."

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Description: The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal offers a scholarly forum for diverse views on major issues in bioethics, such as active euthanasia, fetal tissue research, human embryo cloning, genetics, health care reform, and organ transplantation. Each issue includes "Scope Notes," an overview and extensive annotated bibliography on a specific topic in bioethics, and "Bioethics Inside the Beltway," a report written by a Washington insider updating bioethics activities on the federal level.

Medical Law Review
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Description: The Medical Law Review is already established as an authoritative source of reference for academics, lawyers, legal and medical practitioners, law students and anyone interested in health care and the law. Primarily the Review presents articles of international interest which provide thorough analyses and comment on the wide range of topical issues that are fundamental to this expanding area of law.

Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy
Publisher: Kluwer
Description: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy: A European Journal is the official journal of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care. It is a forum for international exchange of research data, theories, reports and opinions in the discipline of bioethics, and the philosophy of medicine and health care in general. The journal welcomes contributions from history, ethics, anthropology, epistemology, logic, metaphysics, philosophy of science and technology, sociology and political science, law, and the philosophy of culture and religion.

Monash Bioethics Review
Description: "Monash Bioethics Review is Australia's oldest and its only peer reviewed bioethics journal. It appears four times a year in January, April, July and October, and is sent free of charge to Associate Members of the Centre for Human Bioethics."

New Zealand Bioethics Journal
Description: "The New Zealand Bioethics Journal (formerly the Otago Bioethics Report) is a fully peer reviewed international journal which focuses on ethical and legal issues in health care ethics, health law, environmental ethics, research ethics, and health policy. The journal is published three times a year and is circulated to a wide range of national and international subscribers."

NTM: International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Sciences,Technology and Medicine
Publisher: Birkhauser
Description: NTM is an international journal for history and ethics of natural sciences, technology and medicine that publishes original research papers, book reviews and news.

Nursing Ethics: An International Journal for Health Care Professionals
Description: "Nursing Ethics takes a practical approach to this complex subject and relates each topic to the working environment. The articles on ethical and legal issues are written in a comprehensible style and official documents are analysed in a user-friendly way. The international Editorial Board ensures the selection of a wide range of high quality articles of global significance."

Nursing Philosophy
Publisher: Blackwells
Description: "This journal provides a forum for discussion of philosophical issues in nursing. These focus on questions relating to the nature of nursing and to the phenomena of key relevance to it. For example, any understanding of what nursing is presupposes some conception of just what nurses are trying to do when they nurse. But what are the ends of nursing? Are they to promote health, prevent disease, promote well-being, enhance autonomy, relieve suffering, or some combination of these? In addition to a focus on the ends of nursing, philosophical enquiry into the means by which these ends are to be met are also welcomed within the journal. What kind of knowledge is needed in order to nurse? Practical, theoretical, aesthetic, moral, political, 'intuitive' or some other? In addition to these subject areas, critical discussions of the work of nurse theorists who have advanced philosophical claims, and of philosophers themselves, are encouraged. For example, the works of Benner, Benner and Wrubel, Carper, Schrok, Watson, Parse and so on all include substantial philosophical content. Moreover, the writings of a number of philosophers are appealed to and discussed with increasing frequency in nursing journals: such philosophers include Heidegger, Husserl, Kuhn, Polanyi, Taylor and Macintyre. Critical discussions of the works of these philosophers and of their relevance to nursing are also welcomed within Nursing Philosophy. Although the main scope of the journal is nursing, philosophical contributions on related areas of healthcare work such as midwifery and occupational therapy are encouraged."

Online Journal of Health Ethics
Description: "It is the purpose of this on-line ethical journal to provide a forum to inform ethical debates from a holistic worldview. Clearly, this approach demands a multicultural, multidisciplinary team of scholars open to challenges of their ontologies. While editors do not purport that readers will be left without a reasonable doubt regarding one's ethical quandaries, what is promised is the presentation of scholarly works known for their veracity and challenges to the commonly believed and generally accepted notions of truth and right. This philosophy demands the presentation of works which are not just expedient for the hour, but which form the basis of principles for the future. Works presented consist of clinical cases studies, poems, songs, art, dilemmas, ethical papers from renown experts and novices, and electronic bulletin board interactive chats, to name a few. Collectively, these varied forms of expression, while endorsed by some, will not be agreeable to all. What is promised though is a forum wherein expression of ideas is valued and encouraged."

Politics and the Life Sciences
Description: "The PLS topic range is exceptionally broad. Recent issues have addressed chemical and biological terrorism, the evolution of group formation and ritualistic deception, the neuroscience of intolerance and violence, the genetics controversy in criminology, feminism and the evolutionary sciences, adolescent sexuality in public policy, pregnancy and substance-abuse policy, assisted reproduction, germ-line gene therapy, physician-assisted suicide, biotechnology regulation, population policy, and the political economy of global environmental degradation. Typical contributors include political scientists, life scientists, bioethicists, clinicians, health-policy scholars, physical anthropologists, moral and evolutionary philosophers, international security experts, jurists, and ecological economists."

Princeton Journal of Bioethics
Description: The Journal is the first international undergraduate bioethics journal in the world. Topics could include but are not limited to research papers or personal analysis of issues that confront the awareness of biology in the highly technical modern age. Suggested areas of interest which may foster a discussion of Bioethics include: genetic enginneering, medical anthropology, reproductive rights, biotechnology, ethics, philosophy, public policy, healthcare economics/insurance, status of the medical profession, areas of scientific research, environmental issues and various public health initiatives.
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Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
Publisher: Kluwer
Description: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics provides a forum for interdisciplinary studies in the philosophy and methodology of medical practice and research. Matters of particular interest are the developments of the philosophy and methodology of clinical judgment and clinical decision making; the study of problems of medical language, of knowledge acquisition and of theory formation in medicine; the analysis of the structure and dynamics of medical hypotheses and theories; the discussion and clarification of basic medical concepts and issues; the application to medicine of advanced methods in the general philosophy of science, classical and non-classical logics, and mathematics; and the study of the interplay between medicine and other scientific or social institutions. Particular attention is paid to heuristic approaches in developing new methods and tools for the better analysis and understanding of the conceptual and ethical presuppositions of the medical sciences and health care processes.