Specialty journals in philosophy and ethics.
Medical Journals devoted to clinical subspecialties appeal to limited interests, but no matter how telescopic their view, a goodly proportion of subspecialty-journal readers takes care of patients. Journals of this type thus influence some physicians on how they diagnose and how they treat. But to what degree do the following publications influence the way a patient is managed? The Hastings Center Report (February, 1975)* Journal of Medical Ethics (April, 1975) Man and Medicine (Autumn, 1975) Ethics in Science and Medicine (May, 1976) The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (March, 1976) Bioethics Northwest (Winter, 1976) Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (announced June, . . .