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The New Bioethics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ27725394 ↗
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The New Bioethics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering bioethics that was established in 1995 as European Journal of Genetics in Society, changing its name to Human Reproduction & Genetic Ethics in 1998, and taking its current name in 2011. It is published by Taylor & Francis and the editor-in-chief is Matthew James (St Mary's University, Twickenham). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 1.4.

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“The New Bioethics” enters the record as journal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bioethics and journal can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 1998, 2011, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bioethics and journal.
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“The New Bioethics” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bioethics and journal provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27725394. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 1998, 2011 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “The New Bioethics” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.