New Horizons for Health Care Analysis

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Five years ago, I took over from Dr. Andrew Edgar as editor of Health Care Analysis, a journal I had long admired. It was an honour to succeed Andrew, and I did so aiming to carry on the good work that he, and previous editors, had done. This included a commitment to continuing to stimulate breadth and depth of topic-specific studies, in particular through special issues of the journal, promoting scholarship by colleagues at all academic levels, from early career researchers through to long-established scholars, and encouraging an expansive analytical engagement with questions concerning health and health policy. Health Care Analysis’ primary discipline is philosophy, and I have been delighted to advance its strong tradition of including studies that combine philosophical methods with, for example, original empirical research, legal and policy studies, and health care practice-oriented works. …