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Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Journal ISSN: 1386-7415,1573-1200

JCR: Q3

Impact Factor: 1.1

Articles

One R or the other – an experimental bioethics approach to 3R dilemmas in animal research

Christian Rodriguez Perez, David M. Shaw, Brian D. Earp, Bernice S. Elger & Kirsten Persson
Published: 17 August 2024
Volume 27, pages 497–512, (2024)

Ontology of doctor and patient relationship and bioethics: from Aristotle’s teleology to Pellegrino’s philosophy of medicine

Nuno Ribeiro Ferreira, Américo Pereira & Rui Nunes
Published: 27 November 2024
Volume 28, pages 113–119, (2025)

Correction: The role of social justice in triage revisited: a threshold conception

Felicitas Holzer, Nikola Biller-Andorno & Holger Baumann
Published: 25 January 2025
Volume 28, page 371, (2025)

Compassion in the justification of physician-assisted dying: Gandhi’s non-violence vs. Aristotle’s virtues and vices

Ercan Avci
Published: 29 January 2025
Volume 28, pages 213–218, (2025)

The disservice of publishing preliminary results based on a premature hypothesis – Semmelweis’ ordeal revisited

Niels Lynøe, Niklas Juth & Anders Eriksson
Published: 13 February 2025
Volume 28, pages 261–273, (2025)

Understanding “interests”: historical insights for managing conflicts of interest in healthcare and biomedical science

Miriam Wiersma, Ian Kerridge & Wendy Lipworth
Published: 22 April 2025

The use of social media in social care: a systematic review of the argument-based ethics literature

Tijs Vandemeulebroucke & Larissa Bolte
Published: 03 May 2025

Giving as repaying: towards an embodied ethics of living donor liver transplantation

Ya-Ping Lin ,Huei-Ya Chen 
Published: 05 June 2025
Doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-025-10281-8
Keywords:Living donor liver transplantation · Organ donation · Family · Embodied phenomenology · Narrative analysis · Ethics

A normativity mapping review on end-of-life care in long-term care institutions by authors from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Ingrid Metzler, Hanna Mayer, Giovanni Rubeis & Jasmin Eppel-Meichlingert
Published:  
Doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-025-10281-8
Keywords:End-of-life care · Palliative care · Advance care planning · Normativity · Theories of the social · Mapping review

Burnout as breakdown of one’s existence in the world

Lisa IJzerman,Annemie Halsema
Published: 07 July 2025
Doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-025-10281-8
Keywords:Phenomenology · World alienation · Breakdown · Burnout · Merleau-Ponty · Arendt

Introduction

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy: A European Journal is the official journal of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care. It provides a forum for international exchange of research data, theories, reports and opinions on bioethics, and the philosophy of medicine and health care in general. The journal promotes interdisciplinary studies, and stimulates international exchange.

Particular attention is paid to developing contributions from all European countries, and to making accessible scientific work and reports on the practice of health care ethics, from all nations, cultures and language areas in Europe.

 

 

Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief

Bert Gordijn, Ph.D., Institute of Ethics, Dublin City University, Ireland
Henk ten Have, Ph.D., Center for Healthcare Ethics, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA

Associate Editors

  • Ana Borovecki, Ph.D., University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
  • Péter Kakuk, Ph.D., Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
  • Pekka Louhiala, Ph.D., Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Stefano Semplici, Ph.D., Department of Social Ethics, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy
  • Fredrik Svenaeus, Ph.D., Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden

Editorial Board

  • Rolf Ahlzén, Ph.D., Karlstad University, Sweden
  • Ghiath Alahmad, Ph.D., King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • Roberto Andorno, Ph.D., University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Kia Aramesh, Ph.D., Edinboro University, USA
  • Berna Arda, Ph.D., Ankara University, Turkey
  • Garnar Arnason, Ph.D., University of Tuebingen, Germany
  • Michael Barilan, Ph.D., Meir Hospital, Israel
  • Pascal Borry, Ph.D., KU Leuven, Belgium
  • Alena Buyx, Ph.D., Technical University of Munich, Germany
  • Ruth Chadwick, Ph.D., Cardiff University, UK
  • Anne Fagot-Largeault, Ph.D., Paris, France
  • Eugenijus Gefenas, Ph.D., Vilnius University, Lithuania
  • Joris Gielen, Ph.D., Duquesne University, USA
  • Vasil Gluchman, Ph.D., University of Prešov, Slovakia
  • Diego Gracia, Ph.D., Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  • Björn Hofmann, Ph.D., Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
  • Søren Holm, Ph.D., The University of Manchester, UK
  • Gerrit K. Kimsma, Ph.D., Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • Josef Kure, Ph.D., Masaryk University, Czech Republic
  • Uffe Juul Jensen, Ph.D., Aarhus University, Denmark
  • Pierre Mallia, Ph.D., University of Malta, Malta
  • Maria do Céu Patrao Neves, Ph.D., University of the Azores, Portugal
  • Renzo Pegoraro, Ph.D., University of Padova, Italy
  • Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, Ph.D., Roskilde University, Denmark
  • David Resnik, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health, USA
  • Joanna Różyńska, Ph.D., University of Warsaw, Poland
  • Judit Sandor, Ph.D., Central European University, Hungary
  • Maartje Schermer, Ph.D., Erasmus MC, Netherlands
  • Paul Schotsmans, Ph.D., KU Leuven, Belgium
  • Ayman Shabana, Ph.D., Georgetown University, Qatar
  • Jan Helge Solbakk, Ph.D., University of Oslo, Norway
  • William E. Stempsey, Ph.D., College of the Holy Cross, USA
  • Jos V.M. Welie, Ph.D., Creighton University, USA
  • Guy Widdershoven, Ph.D., VU University Medical Center, Netherlands
  • Simon Woods, Ph.D., Newcastle University, UK
  • Hub Zwart, Ph.D., Erasmus University, Netherlands

Aims & Scope

  • Philosophy of Medicine
  • Bioethics
  • History of Health Care
  • Anthropology of Health and Illness
  • Epistemology and Logic in Medicine
  • Metaphysics in Medical Contexts
  • Philosophy of Science and Technology in Health
  • Sociology and Political Philosophy of Health Care
  • Law and Health Care Ethics
  • Philosophy of Culture and Religion in Medicine
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