期刊名称:MEDICAL HUMANITIES
ISSN: | 1468-215X
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出版频率: | Quarterly
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出版社: | BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP, BRITISH MED ASSOC HOUSE, TAVISTOCK SQUARE, LONDON, ENGLAND, WC1H 9JR
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出版社网址: | http://mh.bmj.com
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期刊网址: | http://mh.bmj.com/
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主题范畴: | HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY |
期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
humanities. Medical Humanities aims to encourage a high academic standard for this evolving and developing subject and to enhance professional and public discussion. It features original articles relevant to the delivery of healthcare, the formulation of public health policy, the experience of being ill and of caring for those who are ill, as well as case conferences, educational case studies, book, film, and art reviews, editorials, correspondence, news and notes. To ensure international relevance Medical Humanities has Editorial Board members from all around the world.
Medical Humanities is a leading international journal that reflects the whole field of medical humanities. Medical Humanities aims to encourage a high academic standard for this evolving and developing subject and to enhance professional and public discussion. It features original articles relevant to the delivery of healthcare, the formulation of public health policy, the experience of being ill and of caring for those who are ill, as well as case conferences, educational case studies, book, film, and art reviews, editorials, correspondence, news and notes. To ensure international relevance Medical Humanities has Editorial Board members from all around the world.
Instructions to Authors
For guidelines on BMJ Journals policy and submission please click on links below. Manuscript Formatting Editorial policies Patient consent forms Licence forms Peer Review Process Online First process
Editorial policy
Medical Humanities (MH) aims at being the pre-eminent medical humanities journal with high quality articles relevant to all those interested in medical humanities, particularly to health care professionals, humanities and arts scholars, social scientists and policy-makers, medical educators, and patients.
We welcome original papers from any part of the world, from all relevant approaches, as well as interesting empirical studies. We also welcome educational case studies, book, film, and art reviews, letters, personal viewpoints, and original poetry and prose relevant to the experience of illness.
Papers should be written in a non-specialist language and should ideally be readable by any well informed individual, in particular by both health care professionals without specific expertise in the humanities, arts or social sciences and by scholars in the humanities, arts or social scientist with no practical health care experience. For our part The Editors will:
Ensure that all important issues in medical humanities are welcome in the journal.
Ensure that a fair, independent peer review system is in place.
Adhere to the highest ethical standards concerning editorial and research conduct.
Open access/Unlocked articles
Authors are able to make their articles freely available online, immediately on publication, for a fee, using the Unlocked service. This service is available to any author publishing original research in a BMJ Journal for a fee of £1,200/$2,220/€1,775 (+VAT).
Article types and word counts
Papers
Brief reports
Letters to the editor (original research)
Educational case studies (original research)
Review essay
Current controversies
Debate
Medical (or other health care) Student Essay
Book, film, and art reviews
Filler
Correspondence
Supplements
Papers
Papers should be between 3500 and 5000 words including references, although longer papers may be accepted in this category if the editor feels the longer word count is justified. This is the main category for original research papers on all topics.
Word count: usually between 3500 and 5000 words. Unstructured abstract: up to 250 words. Tables/Illustrations: up to 5, any more at editorial discretion. References: excluded in word count total.
Brief reports
A short original paper 1500 words including references with 2 images or tables, with a brief abstract.
Letters to the editor (original research)
Letters should be 400 words including references and are for more general comments concerning a specific development in medical humanities, or health policy.
Educational case studies (original research)
Educational case studies should be 900 words including references and are for more brief descriptions of medical humanities educational initiatives.
For an example of an Educational Case Study please click here.
Review essay
A long review of one or more significant publications in medical humanities. Ideas for review essays should generally be discussed with the Editor in Chief responsible for commissioning before they are written/submitted.
Word count: up to 3500 words. Abstract: up to 250 words. Illustrations: at editorial discretion. References: included in word count total.
Current controversies
An original paper on an issue of current controversy relevant to the delivery of healthcare, the formulation of public health policy, the experience of being ill and of caring for those who are ill. Will usually be published on the web prior to publication. This category is only for papers where there is truly current controversy.
Word count: up to 3500 words. Abstract: up to 250 words. Tables/Illustrations: at editorial discretion. References: included in word count total.
Debate
Short comments on papers or current controversies, 500 words including references. Usually only published on the web.
Medical (or other health care) Student Essay
An original paper by a medical or other healthcare student. The paper will be peer reviewed in the same way as all other papers, but the author will be given help to make the necessary changes if the referee reports are favourable.
Word count: up to 3500 words. Abstract: up to 250 words. Tables/Illustrations: at editorial discretion. References: included in word count total.
Book, film, and art reviews
Ideas for reviews should generally be discussed with the Editor in Chief responsible for commissioning before they are written/submitted.
Filler
Short literary quote, patient, carer or health care professional story, or brief point 50 to 500 words in length.
Correpondance
Letters in response to articles published in MH are welcome and should be submitted electronically via the website. Contributors should go to the abstract or full text of the article in question. At the top right corner of each article is a "contents box". Click on the "eLetters: Submit a response to this article" link.
Letters relating to or responding to previously published items in the journal will be shown to those authors, where appropriate.
Word count: up to 400 words. References: included in word count total.
Supplements
The BMJ Publishing Group journals are willing to consider publishing supplements to regular issues. Supplement proposals may be made at the request of:
The journal editor, an editorial board member or a learned society may wish to organise a meeting, sponsorship may be sought and the proceedings published as a supplement.
The journal editor, editorial board member or learned society may wish to commission a supplement on a particular theme or topic. Again, sponsorship may be sought.
The BMJPG itself may have proposals for supplements where sponsorship may be necessary.
A sponsoring organisation, often a pharmaceutical company or a charitable foundation, that wishes to arrange a meeting, the proceedings of which will be published as a supplement.
In all cases, it is vital that the journal's integrity, independence and academic reputation is not compromised in any way.
For further information on criteria that must be fulfilled, download the supplements guidelines (PDF).
Editorial Board
Editor
Deborah Kirklin Competing interests >> University College London London, UK d.kirklin@pcps.ucl.ac.uk
Associate Editors
Thomas Faunce Australian National University, Canberra, Australia thomas.faunce@anu.edu.au
Margaret Healy University of Sussex Sussex, UK m.j.healy@sussex.ac.uk
José Lázaro Autonomous University of Madrid Madrid, Spain jose.lazaro@uam.es
Audrey Shafer Stanford University School of Medicine California, USA ashafer@stanford.edu
Book Editors
Claire Elliott University College London London, UK
Margaret Lloyd University College London London, UK
Film Editor
Brian Glasser University College London London, UK
Education Editor
Sarah Edwards (UK) West Suffolk Hospital Suffolk, UK sarah.edwards@wsh.nhs.uk
Editorial Board
Nadeem Ahmed Imperial College London, UK
Rolf Ahlzen Karolinska Institute Stockholm, Sweden
Francisco Borrell Barcelona, Spain
Kenneth Boyd Institute of Medical Ethics London, UK
Kenneth Calman Institute of Medical Ethics London, UK
Rafael Campo Harvard Medical School, USA
Hal Cook Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine University College London, UK
Geoff Crossick Goldsmiths, University of London London, UK
Giskin Day Imperial College London London, UK
Jan Frich University of Oslo Oslo, Norway
Raanon Gillon Institute of Medical Ethics London, UK
Monica Greco Goldsmiths London, UK
Sarah Gull Cambridge University Cambridge, UK
Iona Heath UK
Roger Higgs King's College London, UK
Soren Holm Cardiff University Cardiff, UK
Claire Hooker University of Sydney Sydney, Australia
Anne Hudson Jones Institute for the Medical Humanities Texas, USA
Mark Jackson University of Exeter Exeter, UK
Arthur Kleinman Harvard USA
Anne Marie Moulin Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation Economique, Juridique et Sociale France
Stephen Pattison The University of Birmingham Birmingham, UK
Richard Penson Harvard University USA
Esteban Rodriguez Ocana Granada University Granada
Michael Rowe Yale University Connecticut, USA
Jonathan Sawday Strathclyde University Glasgow, UK
Anne Scott Dublin City University Dublin, Ireland
Suzanne Scholz Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universtat Frankfurt, Germany
Ravi Shankar KIST Medical College Imadol Lalitpur, Nepal
Ron Stewart Dalhousie University Nova Scotia, Canada
John Warner Yale University Connecticut, USA
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