Bioethics.net

Founded in 1993 as the first bioethics website, bioethics.net and The American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB) have grown to become the most read sources of information about bioethics online and in print, respectively, and collectively are visited millions of times every month by readers from around the world and every walk of life. Today, AJOB is owned and published in print and online by Taylor & Francis Group. Its editorial offices are available by telephone (888-360-AJOB) or email (editor@bioethics.net).

The mission of The American Journal of Bioethics is to provide the clinical, legal, academic, scientific, religious and broad community-at-large with a rapid but comprehensive debate of issues in bioethics. Our further goal is to inspire and inform research and writing across disciplines, through target articles, peer commentary, book reviews, qualitative research, literary criticism, photography and graphic arts, and comments on developments in law and medical science.

In service to the disciplines of bioethics, bioethics.net publishes the latest announcements, job offerings, and analysis of the education and job opportunities, together with bioethics information and access to AJOB, and offers a comprehensive information source updated by the editorial group whose other distinct mission is the editorial management of AJOB.

American Journal of Bioethics is a comprehensive, peer-reviewed journal about ethical issues in medicine and the biomedical sciences. Each issue of AJOB includes Target Articles that zero in on a pressing problem in healthcare or biomedical science, followed by Open Peer Commentary articles written about the Target Article by scholars in many disciplines including medicine, public health, philosophy, religion, law, health services research, and social work.

Open Peer Commentary articles provide access to all facets of the issue at hand, across disciplines and methodologies, so that both the practical and theoretical are up for discussion. The result is a conversation that meets the needs of the teacher, the casual reader, the researcher, the policy analyst, the student.

And AJOB does not leave the reader in the passive mode of reading. Manuscript Central lets the peer commentators respond to each other and to the Target article during their writing process. bioethics.net opens the conversation with additional Open Peer Commentary articles and online Letters to the Editor.

With the American Journal of Bioethics, Taylor & Francis Group has implemented a publishing system that is truly worthy of bioethics, a way in which scholarship about bioethics can reach the widest and most intellectually broad audience, magnifying the rigor, intimacy and interdisciplinary value of the discipline.

An online subscription is an outstanding resource for students in bioethics. Online-only subscriptions include the complete text of AJOB – the only thing you miss is the paper. All paper subscriptions do include, in addition, and at no extra cost, full online access.

Yes, and in any quantity or section.

The print edition of AJOB is a peer reviewed, complete treatment of important issues in bioethics together with open peer commentary that translates scholarship into a clear, relevant and useful conversation. bioethics.net allows online access to the text of The American Journal of Bioethics, but that is only the beginning. Every day bioethics.net collects news and analysis from among hundreds of sources, linking you to news and commentary you might have missed in the day’s papers and magazines. A subscription to the peer reviewed journal AJOB lets readers enjoy an interactive dialog among leading scholars about the issues at hand. A subscription lets you download ready-to-print teaching materials for informal learning sessions or for graduate, undergraduate, and professional courses. By contrast, the distinct website bioethics.net, while it benefits from the work of the editors and the editorial office, is fresh every day and independent of the peer reviewed journal and its time constraints – and, unlike the Journal, is in no way a product of or owned by Taylor & Francis LLC. It is the “home page” for thousands of scholars and students in bioethics. And speaking of students, bioethics.net puts the focus squarely on student and career opportunities, offering a list of graduate programs, career advice, an entire site called “bioethics for beginners”. Job seekers turn every day to our updated list of jobs in the field.

Please mail materials to be considered for review to:
Book Review Editor
American Journal of Bioethics
1101 Walnut Street #1303, Kansas City MO 64106

bookreviews@bioethics.net

Requests for permission to use copyrighted material should be addressed to Taylor & Francis Group.

For online content of bioethics.net, please contact the website at webmaster@bioethics.net.

Plenty of people wrote us and complained that the Journal’s web site 1) did not cover all the news (only a few things fit there), 2) did not discuss the news or put it in context. So, now we think we’ve solved that problem. Editing a journal makes this a much, much easier proposition: not only do we get news items from lots of reporters and other contributors, we are happily blessed with students and others who volunteer time to help synthesize it.

Bioethics clearly needs a good blog and AJOB is trying to create it. That we happen to run bioethics’ most-visited web site does, admittedly, make it much easier to get feedback quickly and from lots of people. We hope you like this thing enough to add it to your daily diet. And please send us your advice.

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