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(huì)、倫理和政策影響。該雜志闡明了科學(xué)-社會(huì)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(jìn)步帶來的本地、國家和全球社會(huì)政治挑戰(zhàn)的途徑。《生物社會(huì)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(píng)和獨(dú)立的社論跨越了社會(huì)科學(xué)領(lǐng)域，對(duì)有爭(zhēng)議的問題提出了一系列生動(dòng)而平衡的觀點(diǎn)。該雜志打破了社會(huì)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(huì)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(huì)科學(xué)和自然科學(xué)的跨學(xué)科對(duì)話和辯論的建設(shè)性潛力，不僅是社會(huì)科學(xué)家的選擇，而且是對(duì)其工作的更廣泛的社會(huì)、倫理和政策含義感興趣的生命科學(xué)家的選擇。生物社會(huì)學(xué)提供了一個(gè)重要的論壇，在這個(gè)論壇中，最嚴(yán)格的社會(huì)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(huì)研究人員、臨床醫(yī)生、監(jiān)管機(jī)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.