The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics issue 53.1, featuring the special issue “Institutional Obligations to Promote Research Integrity,” is now available. This issue is guest edited by Holly Fernandez Lynch, Emily A. Largent, Matthew S. McCoy, and Steven Joffe. Many of the articles in this issue are open access. To quote the guest editors:
Preventing and addressing research misconduct demands more than imploring scientists to do better. It is also essential to address the structural issues that allow misconduct to flourish. With these structural factors in mind, this Special Issue explores the institutional obligations of journals and publishers, research institutions, funders, and the government to promote scientific integrity and advance trust in science. Articles from researchers affected by fraud, science “sleuths,” systematic reviewers, journal editors, academic officials, regulators, and leading experts on research integrity offer a range of ideas for responding to the research misconduct crisis, including increased transparency, stronger journal processes for review and retraction, improved scientific lab culture, and efforts to hold investigators prospectively accountable for scientific integrity, among several others.
Holly Fernandez Lynch, Emily A. Largent, Matthew S. McCoy, and Steven Joffe
This issue also includes independent articles on topics as diverse as offering incarcerated people shorter sentences in return for organ donation, the origin of “conscientious objection” in reproductive healthcare, genome editing, and scientific legal mapping of global LGBTQ+ rights. It also has several articles and columns on various facets of the pharmaceutical industry, from vaccines to certification marks to medication pricing and negotiations. And for health law teachers, there is an exceptionally timely article on training bioethics professionals in AI Ethics.
As a reminder, if you are an ASLME member, you have full access to this issue online, as well as our archive dating back to 1993. In order to access JLME, go in the Members menu to Member Home to get the link for full access. Contact us if you have any problems accessing the issue.
