Ethical Issues in Biomedical Publication

by Jones, Anne Hudson

• ISBN13: 9780801863158
• ISBN10: 0801863155
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS

Summary

When the editors of two of the most prominent medical journals in the world--the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)--were fired in the same year, under circumstances that ranged from acrimonious to politically sensational, media attention again focused on biomedical publication. The controversy highlighted yet another ethical dimension of scientific research and its publication, topics that have generated intense scrutiny in recent years. As research funding has become scarcer and competition fiercer, with links between scientific discovery and commercial applications increasingly tighter and more lucrative, allegations of misconduct have also increased. Universities and research institutions, notably the NIH, have created offices of scientific integrity and mandated educational programs to investigate such allegations and to train researchers in the highest standards of sound, ethical scientific research. Focusing on publication ethics as an essential aspect of responsible scientific conduct, Ethical Issues in Biomedical Publication examines a variety of troublesome issues, including authorship, peer review, repetitive publication, conflict of interest, and electronic publishing. The contributors include the editors of distinguished biomedical journals (among them, past or present editors of Academic Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, British Medical Journal, JAMA, and the Lancet), humanities scholars, scientists, lawyers, and a university administrator. Chapters address specific ethical issues and offer recommendations for preventing or solving problems associated with them. The result is a book that will serve as a standard reference for biomedical researchers, authors, editors, and teachers of research ethics. "Educators, administrators, scientists, editors, and students should all welcome this comprehensive new book. Anne Hudson Jones and Faith McLellan have gathered a veritable who's who in the field of publication ethics for biomedical research. All those with a stake in biomedical research will surely want this volume on their bookshelf." -- from the Foreword by Jordan J. Cohen, M.D., President, Association of American Medical Colleges

Author Biography

Anne Hudson Jones is the former editor of Literature and Medicine and a professor at the Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Faith McLellan is North American Senior Editor of The Lancetin New York City.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
List of Contributors	xvii
Part One: The Major Ethical Issues	1	(194)
Changing Traditions of Authorship	3	(27)
Anne Hudson Jones
The Imagined Author	30	(29)
Richard Horton
The Ethics of Peer Review	59	(26)
Fiona Godlee
Peer Review and the Ethics of Internet Publishing	85	(27)
Craig Bingham
Repetitive and Divided Publication	112	(25)
Edward J. Huth
Conflict of Interest	137	(29)
Annette Flanagin
Ethics in Cyberspace: The Challenges of Electronic Scientific Publishing	166	(29)
Faith McLellan
Part Two: Responses and Remedies: Law, Policy, Education	195	(106)
When Ethics Fails: Legal and Administrative Causes of Action and Remedies	197	(26)
Debra M. Parrish
Scientific Misconduct: Policy Issues	223	(27)
C. K. Gunsalus
Ethical Scientific Reporting and Publication: Training the Trainees	250	(26)
Susan Eastwood
Educating the Leaders: Toward Systemic Change	276	(25)
Addeane S. Caelleigh
Part Three: Commentaries and Epilogue	301	(44)
Research Misconduct and the Ethics of Scientific Publication	303	(12)
Paul J. Friedman
A View from the Trenches: One Scientist's Perspective	315	(8)
Douglas S. DeWitt
The Other Two Cultures: How Research and Publishing Can Move Forward Together	323	(22)
Frank Davidoff
Selected Key Resources	345	(16)
Index	361