Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
Overview
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics is a scientific journal, published by Springer since 1998 in English. The journal's country of origin is Netherlands and its primary focus area is medical ethics.
Details
Details
Abbr.
Theor Med Bioeth
Publisher
Springer
Start
1998
End
Continuing
Frequency
Six no. a year
p-ISSN
1386-7415
e-ISSN
1573-0980
Country
Netherlands
Language
English
Specialty
Medical Ethics
Metrics
Metrics
h-index / Ranks: 8115
44
SJR / Ranks: 13781
188
CiteScore / Ranks: 8773
2.90
Recent Articles
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Brummett A, Eberl J
Theor Med Bioeth
. 2025 Feb;
46(1):67-87.
PMID: 40009322
Public bioethics aims to provide moral guidance on questions of public policy, research, and clinical ethics. However, Alasdair MacIntyre famously opened his seminal work, After Virtue, with a 'disquieting suggestion'...
2.
Deng R, Fan R
Theor Med Bioeth
. 2025 Feb;
46(1):89-102.
PMID: 40009321
The language of principlism seems to have emerged as the predominant guiding framework in teaching, research and even legislation within contemporary Chinese bioethics. This essay reveals the dissonance between the...
3.
Fitzgerald M
Theor Med Bioeth
. 2025 Feb;
46(1):103-120.
PMID: 40009320
The prospect of shared decision-making with animals is an elusive one. Its elusiveness comes largely from how difficult it is to assess the linguistic abilities of animals, whether that be...
4.
Karches K
Theor Med Bioeth
. 2025 Feb;
46(1):31-49.
PMID: 40009319
Predictions that artificial intelligence (AI) will become capable of replacing human beings in domains such as medicine rest implicitly on a theory of mind according to which knowledge can be...
5.
Vest M
Theor Med Bioeth
. 2025 Feb;
46(1):51-65.
PMID: 40009318
This essay asks what quality of moral guidance is offered via the language of principlism, the lingua franca of bioethics. In particular, I suggest three approaches to principlist language via...
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Katz P
Theor Med Bioeth
. 2025 Feb;
46(1):13-30.
PMID: 40009317
This essay considers the idea of 'representation' and pain in neuroscience, continental philosophy, and analytic philosophy. To do so, it considers two forms of representation: linguistic representation refers to how...
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Schlagman S
Theor Med Bioeth
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39951216
In this paper I present a novel understanding of diagnostic hypothesis that draws ideas from Walter Benjamin's work on translation. My framework originates from previous literature that aligns diagnostic hypothesis...
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Fowers B, Novak L, Selim M, Chandran L, Kristjansson K
Theor Med Bioeth
. 2024 Nov;
PMID: 39616292
Virtue-based ethics prioritizes phronesis (practical wisdom) because, as rules have become less action-guiding, good judgment (phronesis) becomes more necessary as a guiding meta-virtue. The view of phronesis that MacIntyre proposed...
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