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• Title:The trouble with medical journals / Richard Smith.
  
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• Author/Creator:Smith, Richard (Richard Sydney William), 1952-
  
• Published/Created:London : Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2007, ©2006.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WZ345 .S657 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Periodicals.
  
• Medical Subjects: Biomedical Research.
  Peer Review, Research.
  Publication Bias.
  Publishing--ethics.
  Publishing--trends.
  
• Description:x, 292 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781853156731
  1853156736
  
• Contents:1. Introduction : medical journals are probably a force for good but need considerable reform
  2. Why bother with medical journals and whether they are honest?
  3. What and who are medical journals for?
  4. Can medical journals lead or must they follow?
  5. What are and what should be the values of medical journals?
  6. complexities and confusions of medical science
  7. Peer review : a flawed process at the heart of science and journals
  8. Research misconduct : the poisoning of the well
  9. death of the author and the birth of the contributor?
  10. Publishing too much and nothing : serious problems not just nuisances
  11. Conflicts of interest : how money clouds objectivity
  12. Editorial misconduct, freedom and accountability : amateurs at work
  13. Patients and medical journals : from objects to partners
  14. Medical journals and the mass media : moving from love and hate to love
  15. Trying to stop failing the developing world
  16. Medical journals and pharmaceutical companies : uneasy bedfellows
  17. highly profitable but perhaps unethical business of publishing medical research
  18. Relations between research ethics committees and medical journals : guarding the probity of research
  19. Ethical support and accountability for journals : an ombudsman, an ethics committee, and next?
  20. Libel and medical journals : proper constraint or against the public interest?
  21. case that concern with ethical issues in publishing medical research is overdone
  22. Ethical manifestos for four different futures for medical publishing.