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This is an alphabetically ordered list of Help items. The proper name “Philmed” denotes the website.

Blog:
See ‘Home’

Cookie:
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Encyclopedia:
See Philmed Online Encyclopedia

Events:
To be found under the hyperlink “Philosophy of Medicine”. The term refers to meetings such as seminars, conferences, symposia, congresses, and similar scholarly conventions concerned with issues in the philosophy of medicine and related areas. If you wish to announce such a meeting, please write to the webmaster at: kszadeh AT philmed-online.net.

Forum:
Accessible by clicking the hyperlink Forum in the horizontal navigation menu. It is a forum for discussion about issues in the philosophy of medicine and related areas. Posting requires user registration. Read-only is free. You will find a special “Forum help” hyperlink on the Forum page itself under the heading “FAQ”.

HAPM:
This is an acronym of the Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine published by Springer in September 2011. See the horizontal navigation menu.

Home/Blog:
This is an hyperlink in the horizontal navigation menu that brings you back to the Blog page with which the website starts.

Institutions:
To be found under the hyperlink “Philosophy of Medicine”. If you would like your institute, department, division, or research unit to be included in the list of institutions in Philmed, please enter the required information into the database or send it to the webmaster at: kszadeh AT philmed-online.net.

Journal:
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Navigation menu (horizontal):
This is the white-worded line beneath the site title logo consisting of the following 5 items: Philosophy of Medicine, Philmed Online Encyclopedia, Forum, HAPM, Home/Blog.

Philmed:
This proper name denotes the present website philmed-online.net.

Philmed Online Encyclopedia:
This is a Wiki to enable the philosophy of medicine, medical ethics, and bioethics communities to collaboratively bring about an online pool of concepts, theories, and knowledge in these fields. Read-only is free. But writing and editing articles in the Encyclopedia require registration plus the right to contribute that can be assigned to you by the webmaster. You will find special instructions on the Encyclopedia page itself.

Philmed Online Journal:
This is an online journal that publishes research and discussion papers. It can be accessed from the Philosophy of Medicine menu.

Privacy Policy:
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Registration:
Posting in the Forum requires user registration (username and email address). Without registration, you can read posts in the Forum, but not create posts yourself. Likewise, contributing to the Encyclopedia requires registration and, in addition, the right to contribute. See the instructions on the Encyclopedia page itself.