About this journal

The American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB) is an international journal of bioethics that publishes leading research on current ethical challenges in the health sciences.

AJOB has followed through on the innovative vision that built bioethics: serious discussion of the social implications of biomedicine. The journal provides an authoritative, annotated conversation that has been used by judges, senators, journalists, scholars, schoolteachers, and many others.

Areas of interest include:

• social implications of clinical research
• access to health services
• medical records and data
  

AJOB accepts the following types of article: target articles, open peer commentaries, book reviews, response to open peer commentaries.

The journal operates a double-anonymized peer review policy. Information on the journals peer review times and acceptance rate can be found in the "Metrics" tab, and further detail is available on the journals website.

You can discover more about bioethics and the AJOB family through bioethics.net, which publishes InFocus articles, current news, and other features on emerging issues in bioethics.

Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.
Read the Instructions for Authors .

AJOB is the companion journal of AJOB Neuroscience and AJOB Empirical Bioethics.

Editor in Chief
David Magnus, Ph.D. – Stanford University

Executive Managing Editor

Bela Fishbeyn, M.S. - Stanford University

Digital Media and Associate Editors

Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA - Stanford University, USA
Keisha Ray, Ph.D. -  University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA

Research Ethics Case Editors
Devan Duenas, M.A. -  Seattle Children's Research Institute, USA
Liza-Marie Johnson, M.D. - St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA
Ben Wilfond, M.D. - Seattle Children's Research Institute, USA

Clinical Ethics Case Editor

Leah Eisenberg, J.D., M.A. - University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Anita Tarzian, Ph.D., RN -  University of Maryland School of Nursing, USA

Editorial Board

Lisa Campo-Engelstein, Ph.D. – University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D. – New York University, USA
Mildred K. Cho, Ph.D. – Stanford University, USA
I. Glenn Cohen, J.D. - Harvard University, USA
Marion Danis, M.D. - National Institutes of Health, USA
Ellen Wright Clayton, M.D., J.D. - Vanderbilt Law School, USA
Norman Daniels, Ph.D. – Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Arthur R. Derse, M.D., J.D. – Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Denise Dudzinski, Ph.D. – University of Washington, USA
Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. – Yale University, USA
Autumn Fiester, Ph.D. - University of Pennsylvania, USA
Holly Fernandez Lynch JD, MBE - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
Joseph Fins, M.D., M.A.C.P. - Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
Ellen Fox, M.D. – Integrated Ethics Consulting, LLC, USA
Rosemarie Garland-Thomas, Ph.D. - Emory University, USA
Nanibaa' Garrison, Ph.D., -  UCLA, USA
Christine Grady, RN, PhD - National Institutes of Health, USA
Henry T. Greely, J.D. – Stanford University, USA
Scott Halpern, M.D., Ph.D. - M. Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, USA
Judy Illes, Ph.D. - University of British Columbia, Canada
Steven Joffe, M.D., MPH - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
Eric T. Juengst, Ph.D. – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Mark G. Kuczewski, Ph.D. – Loyola University Chicago, USA
Stephen Latham, JD, Ph.D. - Yale University, USA
Mary Faith Marshall, Ph.D. - University of Virginia, USA
Stephanie Morain, Ph.D. - Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, USA
Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Ph.D., - Columbia University, USA
Amy McGuire, JD, PhD - Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Jonathan D. Moreno, Ph.D. – University of Pennsylvania, USA
Aasim Padela, MD, MSc- Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
John J. Paris, S.J., Ph.D. – Boston College, USA
Rosamond Rhodes, Ph.D. – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Jennifer Ruger, PhD, MSc, MA, MSL- University of Pennsylvania, USA
Julian Savulescu, Ph.D. - Oxford University, UK
Robert Sparrow, Ph.D. - Monash University, Australia
Eric Swirsky, JD, M.A. -  University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Yolonda Y. Wilson, Ph.D. –  National Humanities Center, USA
September Williams, M.D. –  Ninth Month Consults, USA
Matthew Wynia, M.D., M.P.H. –  University of Colorado, USA
Ruqaiijah Yearby, J.D., M.P.H. –  The Ohio State University, USA

News, offers and calls for papers

News and offers

• Visit bioethicstoday.org, the companion website to the AJOB Family of journals

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH)
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