本期刊致力于探索生命科學(xué)和生物醫(yī)學(xué)發(fā)展的重要社會、倫理和政策影響。該雜志闡明了科學(xué)-社會界面上的重要學(xué)術(shù)問題，并提供了解決科學(xué)和生物醫(yī)學(xué)進步帶來的本地、國家和全球社會政治挑戰(zhàn)的途徑。《生物社會學(xué)》是同類期刊中的第一本，它發(fā)表的文章、回應(yīng)文章、書評和獨立的社論跨越了社會科學(xué)領(lǐng)域，對有爭議的問題提出了一系列生動而平衡的觀點。該雜志打破了社會科學(xué)和人文學(xué)科，以及這些學(xué)科和自然科學(xué)之間的學(xué)科界限，為思考生命科學(xué)和社會之間的關(guān)系開辟了新的思路。在國際范圍內(nèi)，該雜志審查新的研究和發(fā)展在全球各地。該雜志展示了跨社會科學(xué)和自然科學(xué)的跨學(xué)科對話和辯論的建設(shè)性潛力，不僅是社會科學(xué)家的選擇，而且是對其工作的更廣泛的社會、倫理和政策含義感興趣的生命科學(xué)家的選擇。生物社會學(xué)提供了一個重要的論壇，在這個論壇中，最嚴格的社會研究和當(dāng)代問題的批判性分析可以與領(lǐng)先科學(xué)家、社會研究人員、臨床醫(yī)生、監(jiān)管機構(gòu)和其他利益攸關(guān)方的工作相交叉。

This journal is committed to the scholarly exploration of the crucial social, ethical and policy implications of developments in the life sciences and biomedicine. The journal illuminates important intellectual issues at the science-society interface, and offers pathways to the resolution of critical local, national and global socio-political challenges that arise from scientific and biomedical advances.The first journal of its kind, BioSocieties publishes articles, response pieces, book reviews, and self-standing editorials that span the social science disciplines, and present a lively and balanced array of perspectives on controversial issues. The journal breaks disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences and humanities, and between these disciplines and the natural sciences, to develop new ways of thinking about the relations between the life sciences and society. International in scope, the journal examines new research and developments in all corners of the globe.Demonstrating the constructive potential of interdisciplinary dialogue and debate across the social and natural sciences, this is 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. BioSocieties provides a crucial forum in which the most rigorous social research and critical analysis of contemporary issues can intersect with the work of leading scientists, social researchers, clinicians, regulators and other stakeholders.