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8 Med., Health Care & Phil. 1 (2005)

handle is hein.journals/medhcph8 and id is 1 raw text is: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (2005) 8:1 DOI 10.1007/s11019-005-2708-3 Editorial Changes in the editorial team The attentive reader of Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy will have noticed that the cover of the journal is different from earlier issues. From the eighth volume on the editorial team of Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy has changed. The reason is that Henk ten Have has officially retired from his editorial task because of his new position as Director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology of UNESCO in Paris. Henk ten Have was one of the co-founders and the first secretary of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care (ESPMH), of which Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy is the official journal. Henk ten Have was also the first editor-in-chief of this journal. Since the start of the journal in 1998, we have served as managing editor and book review editor, respectively. As new editors-in-chief, we had the feeling that we should broaden the membership of the editorial team from the very start. This is not only a matter of spreading the workload, but most of all broadening the editorial expertise. It is, therefore, with pleasure that we can introduce two new asso- ciate editors. Pekka Louhiala from Helsinki (Fin- land) and Fredrik Svenaeus from Linkdping (Sweden) will assist us in our editorial tasks. More- over, Nikola Biller-Andorno from Berlin (Germany) is prepared to serve as the new book review editor. Finally, Valesca Hulsman and Danielle Verhaar will assist us as editorial assistant and editorial secretary, respectively. This change of editorship was a good opportunity to reconsider the membership of the Editorial Board and the Advisory Board. Some members of these boards had already announced that they wanted to stop their activities for the journal. Upon inquiry, it appeared that for various reasons a few other people wanted to retire as well from their tasks as a member of one of these boards. Since the start of the journal, the members of the two boards did in fact the same work, that is, advising the editors by reviewing papers. Therefore, we decided to merge the two boards into one new Editorial Board. Finally, a scientific journal cannot exist without the coopera- tion of many scientists and scholars with a wide variety of specific expertise. Current developments in medicine and health care, for example the rapid development of new medical technologies, made it also desirable to broaden the editorial expertise of Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. We have therefore invited a number of scholars in the field of medical ethics and medical philosophy to join the Editorial Board. The aims and scope of the journal will, however, not be changed. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy is a forum for international exchange of research data, theories, reports and opinions in the discipline of bioethics, and the philosophy of medi- cine and health care in general. The aim of the journal is to promote interdisciplinary studies, as well as to stimulate international exchange. Particular attention will be paid to contributions from European coun- tries. But, as the ESPMH has many members from outside Europe, we also welcome scientific contribu- tions from non-European countries. Our striving for the highest possible quality will also remain unchanged. Over the years, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy has developed towards a high quality journal in the field of medical ethics and medical philosophy. Our intention is to at least maintain the quality standard of the journal and to improve it as much as possible. We strive for being listed in current indexes of scientific journals, for example the Social Science Citation Index. Moreover, we will explore the possibility of being published as a quarterly, that is, four times a year. During the meeting of the ESPMH in August 2004, the board and members of the ESMPH expressed their gratitude towards Henk ten Have for all his efforts as editor-in-chief during the last seven years. On behalf of the readers of the journal, we again thank Henk ten Have for all his work for the journal. We wish him all the best in his new position at UNESCO. Wim Dekkers Bert Gordijn Editors-in-chief

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