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[Editorial] IJME’s 20th year
Jesani, Amar
Jesani, Amar
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"With this issue of January 2012, the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME) is entering its 20th year of uninterrupted publication. In the last 19 years, the journal has never had to combine two issues, and has been published regularly in the first month of each quarter. This has been a remarkable feat for a journal on medical ethics and bioethics on a shoestring budget, with voluntary contributions of time and material resources from individuals. IJME has been able to afford some part-time staff support only for the last six years. More heartening than its survival has been the support, goodwill and enduring contribution of its readers and well wishers from India and abroad. Their number is so large that to mention every one of them is impossible. Many may not even like to be named as they have merely done what they considered right and relevant. Their support in the process of growth in quality and content allowed the journal to contribute meaningfully to the debate on improving the health system, medical care and the conduct of health professionals, and in the taking forward and strengthening of bioethics discourse in the country. While the first issue of the journal was published in August 1993, the processes that led to its publication began in 1989, with the coming together of doctors and health activists to intervene in the healthcare system to improve ethical standards, and to bring the concerns of patients, particularly of the most vulnerable segments, to the centre of healthcare. None of these individuals had any formal training or qualifications in bioethics, but they were studying it in their practice, in research and in the discussion of bioethics and the literature. The journal, therefore, became, not just a medium to share views, conclusions and research, but also a platform to learn. Over the years, the sharing and learning aspects of the journal have only been strengthened, and that is what we intend to consolidate."(pg 1)
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