Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy
Overview
Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy is a scholarly journal that explores the intersection of medicine, healthcare, and philosophy. It publishes articles that critically examine ethical, theoretical, and practical issues in healthcare, addressing topics such as medical ethics, bioethics, healthcare policy, and the philosophy of medicine. The journal provides a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and fosters a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between medicine, health care, and philosophical inquiry.
Details
Details
Abbr.
Med Health Care Philos
Start
1998
End
Continuing
Frequency
Three no. a year.
p-ISSN
1386-7423
e-ISSN
1572-8633
Country
Netherlands
Language
English
Specialty
Medical Ethics
Metrics
Metrics
h-index / Ranks: 7207
51
SJR / Ranks: 6793
659
CiteScore / Ranks: 7633
3.50
Recent Articles
1.
Battisti D, Mannelli C
Med Health Care Philos
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40089616
The structural scarcity of healthcare resources has deeply challenged their fair distribution, prompting the need for allocation criteria. Long under the spotlight of the bioethical debate with an extraordinary peak...
2.
Katz R, Graham S, Buchman D
Med Health Care Philos
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40087254
It has been difficult historically for physicians, patients, and philosophers alike to quantify pain given that pain is commonly understood as an individual and subjective experience. The process of measuring...
3.
Tsiakiri L
Med Health Care Philos
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40087253
The prevalence of non-communicable diseases, the related increased medical costs, and the recent public health emergency bring out more forcefully pre-existing dilemmas of distributive justice in the healthcare context. Under...
4.
Nielsen K, Nordgaard J, Henriksen M
Med Health Care Philos
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40053307
The research field of epistemic justice in healthcare has gained traction in the last decade. However, the importation of Miranda Fricker's original philosophical framework to medicine raises several interrelated issues...
5.
Wang Y
Med Health Care Philos
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40053306
An ethical framework for pandemic healthcare distribution typically encompasses multiple ethical values. However, integrating various ethical values and distributive principles into a single framework raises concerns about their compatibility and...
6.
van Woerkum-Rooker T
Med Health Care Philos
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39953268
Research on understanding the self of persons with dementia (PWD) has increased significantly in the past decades across various fields of research. This has led to a profusion of novel...
7.
Lynoe N, Juth N, Eriksson A
Med Health Care Philos
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39946019
In an interesting article, Dr Zuzana Parusniková claimed: (i) that Semmelweis' colleagues did not recognise the importance of his animal experiments, (ii) that the resistance to Semmelweis' hypothesis and results...
8.
Engen C
Med Health Care Philos
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39907891
In 2023, thousands of young Norwegian physicians joined an online movement called #legermåleve (#doctorsmustlive) and shared stories of their own mental and somatic health issues, which they considered to be...
9.
Degerman D
Med Health Care Philos
. 2025 Jan;
PMID: 39878868
Silence is a byword for socially imposed harm in the burgeoning literature on epistemic injustice in psychiatry. While some silence is harmful and should be broken, this understanding of silence...
10.
Avci E
Med Health Care Philos
. 2025 Jan;
PMID: 39875641
Compassion is an essential phenomenon in the therapeutic relationship, and some use it to justify physician-assisted dying practices. The value of compassion in the relationship between healthcare professionals and patients...