''The Linacre Quarterly'' is a peer-reviewed

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that was established in 1932. It is the official journal of the Catholic Medical Association and primarily focuses on the relationship between

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and spirituality, and in particular on medical ethics. The journal is named after

Thomas Linacre Thomas Linacre or Lynaker ( ; 20 October 1524) was an English humanist scholar and physician, after whom Linacre College, Oxford, and Linacre House, a boys' boarding house at The King's School, Canterbury, are named. Linacre was more of a schola ...

, the English physician and Catholic priest, who founded the

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. Starting in 2013, it was published by

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on behalf of the Catholic Medical Association. Maney was acquired by

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in 2015;

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became the publisher in 2018. The journal is abstracted and indexed in the

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and in the Catholic Periodical and Literature Index.

Editors Emeritus

????-201
Deacon William V. Williams, MD
2005-???
Eugene Diamond, M.D.
1969-200
John P. Mullooly, M.D.
1932-???
Anthony Bassler

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