Why submit to Christian Bioethics?
Christian Bioethics is a non-ecumenical, interdenominational journal, exploring the Christian faiths with regard to the meaning of human life, sexuality, suffering, illness, and death within the context of medicine and health care. Christian Bioethics seeks not to gloss over the differences among the Christian faiths, but rather to underscore the content-full moral commitments that separate and give moral substance. It is interdenominational in involving editors and inviting contributions from different Christian perspectives.
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Scope
The Journal will seek to be fresh, novel, critical, and controversial by taking the content of Christianity seriously, while frankly assessing how different Christian faiths and different policies authentically realize that content with respect to bioethical issues. This non-ecumenical approach to Christian bioethics, guided by the usual secular scholarly standards, offers a forum for the extended and vigorous exploration of issues at the interface of theology, moral theory, and health care.
Within the framework of traditional Christian moral commitments, contemporary bioethical and health care policy issues will be examined, such as abortion, the allocation of scarce resources, the character of appropriate hospital chaplaincy, fetal experimentation, fetal tissue in treatment, genetic engineering, the use of critical care units, differences between ordinary and extraordinary treatment, euthanasia, free and informed consent, competency determinations, the meaning of mental illness, the significance of pain, suffering, death, and third-party assisted reproduction.
Rigorous peer review and transparent editorial process
Christian Bioethics offers a high quality and rigorous double-blind peer review process across all papers published in the journal. This peer review process is supported by a comprehensive editorial process to ensure it publishes only the highest quality research. Author support is available via the Oxford University Press Author Resource Centre.
Open Access
Christian Bioethics offers authors the opportunity to publish their work open access – find out more about open access options. Find out if you can publish open access in the journal for free as part of your institution’s inclusion in a read and publish agreement with Oxford University Press.
Article metrics
Article-level metrics, including usage, citations, and Altmetric scores are available for all articles published in the journal, allowing you to understand the reach of your research, and the attention it is receiving online.
Innovative digital publishing
Your article will be on our Oxford Academic platform, which provides a comprehensive suite of features and capabilities for authors. Oxford Academic is easy to use, allowing readers to discover and explore your content from any device. It has been developed using award-winning technology to meet the community’s research needs. There is powerful faceted searching across text and images, downloadable content to enable offline use, and static DOIs and social tools so that readers can share and discuss your article easily. Readers can also use their own accessibility tools and software, as we continue our work to adhere to evolving accessibility standards, including the World Wide Web Consortium guidelines.
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Read our author guidelines for more information on publishing with Christian Bioethics, including how to prepare your manuscript and submit your research.
