Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Academic journal

*Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy*
Publication details
Discipline	Health care, philosophy, bioethics
Language	English
Edited by	Bert Gordijn, Henk ten Have
Former name(s)	European Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care
History	1987–present
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media/European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	1.450 (2018)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Med. Health Care Philos.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	MHCPF5
ISSN	1386-7423 (print) 1572-8633 (web)
LCCN	sn99040981
OCLC no.	40820601
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Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal covering the intersection of philosophy and medicine, including bioethics.

History

The journal was established in 1987 as European Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, obtaining its current name in 1998. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media in association with the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare, of which it is the official journal.

The editors-in-chief are Bert Gordijn (Dublin City University) and Henk ten Have (Duquesne University). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 1.450.^[1]