You may not realise it, but one of the important tasks that the editors of the JME perform is to scan submitted manuscripts for potential libel. English libel laws are incredible strict and if we publish anything that is derogatory and likely to diminish a person or firms standing we may be sued for libel […]
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If Bioethics doesn’t exist, what am I doing here?
OK – I admit it: some rhetorical questions are too easily answered. Still, I’ve been reading Leigh Turner’s paper in the latest JME, and mulling it over. The title of the paper – “Does Bioethics Exist?” is a bit more radical than the content, wich considers the question of whether bioethics exists as a “widely […]
Physicians on Facebook
There’s a short piece in the latest JME about the use of social networking sites by medics that’s got me thinking. In it, Guseh, Brendel and Brendel suggest that physicians need to be especially careful about accepting, say, a Facebook friend request from patients because of the nature of social networking sites and the possibility […]
How should we regulate research?
By David Hunter The BMJ is having it’s once yearly wrangle about the regulation of research in the UK: It’s time to change how Europe regulates research Many of the suggestions made and complaints are to some degree valid, the present system is cumbersome (though I think moving in the right direction in many ways […]
Hurrah… The Complete JME back archive now available online
The complete JME back archive is now available online. You can now get all the important articles from the first issue in 1975 and onwards, to there is now no excuse for not citing that important articles from 1975 just because it requires a walk to the library! […]
And the language of bioethics is… ?
Going to conferences can often be a frustrating experience. Going may be good for refreshing your academic network but there is rarely any deep discussion of the topics on the agenda and many of the presentations are to be blunt rather boring. I therefore count myself very lucky to have attended 3 interesting conferences within […]
The ethics of abortion – De ja vue or necessary debate?
This summer I realised with some horror that it was 20 years ago I first presented a paper at an international medical ethics conference while still being a medical student. That paper was on who should control the fate of aborted foetuses and the paper I gave the year after at the same conference was […]
Hot on the newsstands…
The latest JME is out today… and I’d just like to draw everyone’s attention to the paper on facial allograft transplantation by Ben White and some random bloke who needs a haircut. This isn’t because I had anything to do with it, but because (a) it’s very good, and (b) it’s based on Ben’s dissertation […]