Introduction

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief: Daniel P. Sulmasy, Ph.D., Georgetown University, USA
Co-Editor: Lynn A. Jansen, Ph.D., University of Arizona, USA
Managing Editor: Cody F. Feikles, Ph.D., Georgetown University, USA
Editor Emeritus: David C. Thomasma†
Founding Editor: Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh, Ph.D., University of Münster, Germany

Associate Editors

• Sean Aas, Ph.D., Georgetown University, USA
• Daniel Brudney, Ph.D., University of Chicago, USA
• Evert van Leeuwen, Ph.D., Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
• Melissa Moschella, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, USA
• Jeremy Simon, Ph.D., Columbia University, USA
• Kristin Zeiler, Ph.D., Linköping University, Sweden

Book Review Editors

• James Marcum, Ph.D., Baylor University, USA
• Renzo Pegoraro, Ph.D., Pontificia Accademia per la Vita, Italy

Editorial Advisory Board

• Alex Broadbent, Ph.D., Durham University, UK
• Courtney Campbell, Ph.D., Oregon State University, USA
• Jason Eberl, Ph.D., Saint Louis University, USA
• Ruiping Fan, Ph.D., City University of Hong Kong, China
• Andreas Frewer, Ph.D., Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany
• Jennifer Hawkins, Ph.D., Duke University, USA
• Matti Häyry, Ph.D., Aalto University, Finland
• Søren Holm, Ph.D., University of Manchester, UK
• Peter Kampits, Ph.D., University of Vienna, Austria
• Gerrit K. Kimsma, Ph.D., Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
• Mária Kolesárová, Ph.D., Comenius University, Slovakia
• Mark G. Kuczewski, Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago, USA
• Joseph Mfutso-Bengo, Ph.D., University of Malawi College of Medicine, Malawi
• Erik Parens, Ph.D., The Hastings Center, USA
• Annette Rid, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health, USA
• Andrea Rodríguez-Prat, Ph.D., Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Spain
• Thomas Schramme, Ph.D., University of Liverpool, UK
• Mark Sheehan, Ph.D., University of Oxford, UK
• William Stempsey, Ph.D., College of the Holy Cross, USA
• Fredrik Svenaeus, Ph.D., Södertörn University, Sweden
• Henk ten Have, Ph.D., Duquesne University, USA
• Bernadette Tobin, Ph.D., Plunkett Centre for Ethics in Health Care, Australia

Aims & Scope

• Philosophy of Medicine
• Clinical Judgment and Decision Making
• Medical Language and Knowledge Acquisition
• Theory Formation in Medicine
• Analysis of Medical Hypotheses and Theories
• Clarification of Basic Medical Concepts
• Application of Advanced Methods in Philosophy of Science
• Interplay Between Medicine and Other Scientific or Social Institutions
• Clinical and Research Ethics
• Development of New Methods and Tools for Conceptual and Ethical Analysis