{"id":2,"date":"2008-09-02T14:24:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T13:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/about\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T14:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:43:33","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jme.bmj.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/jme.bmj.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1757586267224000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1tPym5zVSkbpvJB8DK6_yu\">Journal of Medical Ethics<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: interfaceregular, Helvetica Neue, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: medium\">\u00a0is a leading journal covering the whole field of medical ethics, promoting ethical reflection and conduct in scientific research and medical practice.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: interfaceregular, Helvetica Neue, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: medium\">JME Practical Bioethics is the open access sister journal to the Journal of Medical Ethics publishing research in all areas of bioethics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This forum publishes posts from leading academics largely relating to their\u00a0articles in one of the two journals,\u00a0either once they are published, or occasionally prior to publication. 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