Revue Médecine et Philosophie

Aims & Scope

The journal Médecine et Philosophie aims to promote open-mindedness around a medical theme (such as a specific pathology) by proposing an evolving guiding principle. This principle oscillates from positivist science towards various epistemological or philosophical approaches. Beyond this pluralistic approach, the journal strives to re-establish a link, diachronically, between generations of knowledge bearers. To contribute to the reinvention of a humanistic medicine that is also anchored in the scientific context of the time, the journal is open to articles that meet strong requirements: crossing different approaches within the human and social sciences and medical science to break down knowledge silos. This fundamental challenge of the journal is expressed through a confrontation of scientific and interdisciplinary elaborations; questioning representations and scientific theories about the human and the social, with the aim of challenging and applying doubt to scientific certainties; valuing methodologically sound empirical research that analyzes practices. The experience of actors is questioned as closely as possible, involving users and actors of the system and institutions, in all that this implies of complexity, multiplicity, and contradiction, mixing constraints and creativity; rethinking change and participation in the health system based on current empirical and scientific data, by placing the subject within the intelligence of the social. Social facts involving the subject observing their care or the researcher involved in their study are analyzed in their interactions with their clinical object; shifting discourse by valuing the different languages of the human and social sciences, remaining open to all kinds of sensitivities, in the conviction that scientific and experiential perspectives allow us to see human phenomena and their medical implications differently. The association of rigor in publication evaluation and speed in article processing is a significant advantage over traditional journals. Its institutional independence is claimed. Beyond this pluralistic approach, the journal strives to re-establish a link, diachronically, between generations of knowledge bearers. The journal's ambition is to promote and valorize intellectual debate around current medical themes, allowing them not to remain confined to a single medical vision. Through the vectorization of the theme proposed to authors, a corpus of texts is formed by addressing multiple viewpoints, for academics and the general public alike. In this sense, the journal Médecine et Philosophie will remain free, gratis, and fully consultable on the Internet. The journal thus offers a field of work and material around which different viewpoints can evolve. When these converging streams reach saturation, a new issue is created, bringing together scattered elements from authors of different disciplines around the pilot theme. The association of rigor in publication evaluation and speed in article processing is a significant advantage over traditional journals. The editorial team can also handle spontaneous requests from authors working outside the proposed theme, in a Varia section. The journal Médecine et Philosophie is more than an unprecedented and interactive exchange platform: it is a creation workshop where the interstices of science meet. With its editorial line open to any medical subject, the journal knows how to evolve through reflections towards regions that enrich both philosophy and medicine.

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