BioSocieties

期刊简介：BioSocieties is committed to the scholarly exploration of the crucial social, ethical and policy implications of developments in the life sciences and biomedicine. These developments are increasing our ability to control our own biology; enabling us to create novel life forms; changing our ideas of ‘normality’ and ‘abnormality’; transforming our understanding of personal identity, family relations, ancestry and ‘race’; altering our social and personal expectations and responsibilities; reshaping global economic opportunities and inequalities; creating new global security challenges; and generating new social, ethical, legal and regulatory dilemmas. To address these dilemmas requires us to break out from narrow disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences and humanities, and between these disciplines and the natural sciences, and to develop new ways of thinking about the relations between biology and sociality and between the life sciences and society.BioSocieties provides a crucial forum where the most rigorous social research and critical analysis of these issues can intersect with the work of leading scientists, social researchers, clinicians, regulators and other stakeholders. BioSocieties defines the key intellectual issues at the science-society interface, and offers pathways to the resolution of the critical local, national and global socio-political challenges that arise from scientific and biomedical advances.As the first journal of its kind, BioSocieties publishes scholarship across the social science disciplines, and represents a lively and balanced array of perspectives on controversial issues. In its inaugural year BioSocieties demonstrated the constructive potential of interdisciplinary dialogue and debate across the social and natural sciences. We are becoming the journal of choice not only for social scientists, but also for life scientists interested in the larger social, ethical and policy implications of their work. The journal is international in scope, spanning research and developments in all corners of the globe.BioSocieties is published quarterly, with occasional themed issues that highlight some of the critical questions and problematics of modern biotechnologies. Articles, response pieces, review essays, and self-standing editorial pieces by social and life scientists form a regular part of the journal.

【译文】BioSocieties致力于对生命科学和生物医学发展中至关重要的社会、伦理和政策影响的学术探索。这些发展正在增强我们控制自身生物的能力；使我们能够创造新的生命形式；改变我们对‘正常’和‘异常’的看法；转变我们对个人身份、家庭关系、血统和‘种族’的理解；改变我们的社会和个人期望和责任；重塑全球经济机会和不等；创造新的全球安全挑战；并产生新的社会、伦理、法律和监管困境。解决这些困境需要我们打破社会科学和人文学科内部的狭隘学科界限，以及这些学科与自然科学之间的界限，并发展新的思考生物学与社会性以及生命科学与社会之间关系的方式。BioSocieties提供了一个关键论坛，在这里最严格的社会研究和对这些问题的批判性分析可以与领先的科学家、社会研究人员、临床医生、监管者和其他利益相关者的工作相交。BioSocieties定义了科学与社会接口的关键知识问题，并为解决由科学和生物医学进步引起的关键地方、国家和全球社会政治挑战提供了途径。作为这一类期刊的第一本，BioSocieties在社会科学学科中发表学术成果，并代表了对争议性问题的活泼而平衡的视角。在其创刊的第一年，BioSocieties展示了社会科学和自然科学之间跨学科对话和辩论的建设性潜力。我们正成为社会科学家的首选期刊，同时也成为对他们的工作更大的社会、伦理和政策影响感兴趣的生物科学家的首选期刊。该期刊具有国际范围，涵盖全球所有角落的研究和发展。BioSocieties按季度出版，偶尔会有主题问题，突出现代生物技术的关键问题和问题。社会科学和生命科学家的文章、回应文章、评论文章和独立编辑文章是期刊的常规部分。