The ''Canadian Journal of Bioethics'' (French: ''Revue canadienne de bioéthique'') is a
peer-reviewed open-access
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academic journal
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hosted by the Bioethics Program at the School of Public Health,
Université de Montréal
The Université de Montréal (UdeM; ; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte- ...
. It covers all aspects of
bioethics
Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, m ...
in French or English. The founding and current
editor-in-chief
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is
Bryn Williams-Jones (
Université de Montréal
The Université de Montréal (UdeM; ; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte- ...
). The journal was established in 2012 as ''BioéthiqueOnline'', obtaining its current title in 2018.
Publishing and financing
The journal publishes under a
Creative Commons License
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, in collaboration with Université de Montréal Libraries and the non-profit consortium
Érudit, and is supported by grants from the Canadian
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
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(SSHRC),
Érudit and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
See also
*
List of bioethics journals
*
List of open-access journals
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References
External links
*{{Official website, http://www.cjb-rcb.ca
Publications established in 2012
Online-only journals
Bioethics journals
Multilingual journals
Continuous journals
Academic journals published in Canada