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The Trouble with Medical Journals

The Trouble with Medical Journals Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition

by Richard Smith

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  • Title The Trouble with Medical Journals
  • Author Richard Smith
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher CRC Press, London
  • Date 2006-09-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9781853156731_pod
  • ISBN 9781853156731 / 1853156736
  • Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.32 x 0.64 in (23.37 x 16.05 x 1.63 cm)

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From the publisher

It is a turbulent time for STM publishing. With moves towards open access to scientific literature, the future of medical journals is uncertain and unpredictable. This is the only book of its kind to address this problematic issue.

Richard Smith, a previous editor of the British Medical Journal for twenty five years and one of the most influential people within medical journals and medicine depicts a compelling picture of medical publishing. Drawn from the author's own extensive and unrivalled experience in medical publishing, Smith provides a refreshingly honest analysis of current and future trends in journal publishing including peer review, ethics in medical publishing, the influence of the pharmaceutical industry as well as that of the mass media, and the risk that money can cloud objectivity in publishing.

Full of personal anecdotes and amusing tales, this is a book for everyone, from researcher to patient, author to publisher and editor to reader. The controversial and highly topical nature of this book, will make uncomfortable reading for publishers, researchers, funding bodies and pharmaceutical companies alike making this useful resource for anyone with an interest in medicine or medical journals.

Topic covered include: Libel and medical journals; Patients and medical journals; Medical journals and the mass media; Medical journals and pharmaceutical companies: uneasy bedfellows; Editorial independence; misconduct; and accountability; Ethical support and accountability for journals; Peer review: a flawed process and Conflicts of interest: how money clouds objectivity.

This is a unique offering by the former BMJ editor- challenging, comprehensive and controversial. This must be the most controversial medical book of the 21st Century
John Illman, MJA News

Lively, full of anecdote and he [Smith] is brutally honest
British Journal of Hospital Medicine

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Please note that the reference to Arup Banerjee on page 100 of this book should be to Anjan Banerjee. We apologise to Professor Arup Banerjee for this oversight.

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First line

Medical journals, which many imagine to be as dull as telephone directories and twice as obscure, influence the lives of everybody-and not always for the better.

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Citations

  • Scitech Book News, 12/01/2006, Page 60

About the author

Richard Smith, Chief Executive, United Healthcare Europe. Former Editor of BMJ and Chief Executive of BMJ Publishing Group

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