The American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB), founded in 1999 by bioethicist Dr. Glenn McGee

Glenn McGee

Glenn Edwards McGee is an American bioethicist. He holds degrees in philosophy from Vanderbilt University and Baylor University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Human Genome Project...

, is a peer review

Peer review

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ed journal published by Taylor and Francis

Taylor and Francis

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. The journal publishes 12 issues each year, and is available both in print and on the internet, at http://bioethics.net|bioethics.net, the most-visited bioethics website

Website

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. Its mission is described as to "provide the clinical, legal, academic, scientific, religious and broad community-at-large with a rapid but comprehensive debate of issues in bioethics." It has a "further goal...to inspire and inform research and writing across disciplines, through target articles, peer commentary, book review

Book review

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s, qualitative research

Qualitative research

Qualitative research is a method of inquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, traditionally in the social sciences, but also in market research and further contexts. Qualitative researchers aim to gather an in-depth understanding of human behavior and the reasons that govern such...

, literary criticism

Literary criticism

Literary criticism is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often informed by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of its methods and goals...

, photography and graphic arts

Graphic arts

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, and comments on developments in law and medical science

Medicine

Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

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Subscribers also regularly receive information about university bioethics programs, job vacancies, news reports, bioethics conferences and other related material.

External links

• Journal of Bioethics: Back issues at Ingentaconnect