The ''Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics'' is a quarterly

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

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in the field 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, med ...

. It was established in 1992 with the goal of exploring “the many implications of both the broader issues in healthcare and society and of organizational concerns arising in the institutions in which ethics committees are located.” Its primary focus, as indicated in its title, is healthcare ethics, understood as distinct from clinical ethics, medical ethics, and academic ethics insofar as it is inductive, interdisciplinary, and concerned with “the character and traditions of the institutions in question.” One of its primary goals has been to integrate “many disciplines as they apply to the work of healthcare ethics committees. In the pages of this journal will be found sections devoted to medicine, law, philosophy, economics, research, theology, education, behavioral and social sciences, and more — with a focus on practical applications in committee settings."

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* {{Official website, 1=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CQH Bioethics journals Publications established in 1991 Quarterly journals English-language journals Cambridge University Press academic journals 1991 establishments in the United Kingdom