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Should all medical research be published? The moral responsibility of medical journal editors
This article reinvigorates a key question in publication ethics: Is there research that it is permissible to conduct but that ought not to be published? The article raises the question in relation to two recent medical studies. It is argued (1) that the publication of these studies may cause signifi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6173808/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29925607 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2018-104785 |
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description | This article reinvigorates a key question in publication ethics: Is there research that it is permissible to conduct but that ought not to be published? The article raises the question in relation to two recent medical studies. It is argued (1) that the publication of these studies may cause significant harm to individuals, (2) that editors of medical journals have a moral responsibility for such harm, (3) that denial of publication is inadequate as an instrument to fulfil this moral responsibility and (4) that internationally acknowledged publication ethics codes should incorporate this aspect of editors’ moral responsibility. |
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spelling | pubmed-61738082018-10-10 Should all medical research be published? The moral responsibility of medical journal editors Ploug, Thomas J Med Ethics Research Ethics This article reinvigorates a key question in publication ethics: Is there research that it is permissible to conduct but that ought not to be published? The article raises the question in relation to two recent medical studies. It is argued (1) that the publication of these studies may cause significant harm to individuals, (2) that editors of medical journals have a moral responsibility for such harm, (3) that denial of publication is inadequate as an instrument to fulfil this moral responsibility and (4) that internationally acknowledged publication ethics codes should incorporate this aspect of editors’ moral responsibility. BMJ Publishing Group 2018-10 2018-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6173808/ /pubmed/29925607 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2018-104785 Text en © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Research Ethics Ploug, Thomas Should all medical research be published? The moral responsibility of medical journal editors |
title | Should all medical research be published? The moral responsibility of medical journal editors |
title_full | Should all medical research be published? The moral responsibility of medical journal editors |
title_fullStr | Should all medical research be published? The moral responsibility of medical journal editors |
title_full_unstemmed | Should all medical research be published? The moral responsibility of medical journal editors |
title_short | Should all medical research be published? The moral responsibility of medical journal editors |
title_sort | should all medical research be published? the moral responsibility of medical journal editors |
topic | Research Ethics |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6173808/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29925607 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2018-104785 |
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