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Ethical and Legal Considerations
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
This chapter is intended to provide guidance to authors, editors, reviewers, and publishers in the fields of biomedicine, health, and the life sciences. The discussion focuses on ethical and ... More
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Authorship Responsibility
AMA Manual of Style Committee
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men. Alexander Pope More than 50 years ago, Richard M. Hewitt, MD, then head of the Section of Publications ... More
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Acknowledgments
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people. Proverb Acknowledgments typically are used to list grant or funding support, donors of equipment or supplies, technical assistance, ... More
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Conflicts of Interest
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Alexander Pope A conflict ... More
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Duplicate Publication
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Wasteful publication includes dividing the results in a single study into two or more papers (“salami sci- ence”); republishing the same material in successive papers (which need not have identical format ... More
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Confidentiality
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Confidentiality promises are widely recognized as an ethical obligation, regardless of the legal duty accompanying them… maintenance of con- fidentiality promises fall within editorial discretion. Jeffrey ... More
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Scientific Misconduct
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
We should ignore whining about the supposedly awful pressures of “publish or perish” when we have little credible evidence on what motivates misconduct, nor on what motivates the conduct of honest, equally ... More
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Intellectual Property: Ownership, Access, Rights, and Management
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
[Will copyright survive the new technologies?] That question is about as bootless as asking whether pol- itics will survive democracy. The real question is what steps it will take to ensure that the promised ... More
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Protecting Research Participants' and Patients' Rights in Scientific Publication
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
The right of the research subject to safeguard his or her integrity must always be respected. Every precaution should be taken to respect the privacy of the subject and to minimize the impact of the study ... More
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Defamation, Libel
Annette Flanagin
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. Abraham Lincoln Defamation is the act of harming another’s reputation by libel or slander and thereby exposing that person to public hatred, ... More
