{
  "abstract": "When the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) was founded in 1975, it played a formative role in establishing medical ethics as a field. For nearly half a century, it has provided a home for rigorous—and often provocative—scholarship on the ethical dimensions of medicine, medical education and related subjects. In its early years, the journal’s readership consisted largely of doctors and medical students in the UK.1 Over time, its scope has widened. What began as a focus on the moral and legal dimensions of professional practice, the doctor–patient relationship and the delivery of clinical care eventually expanded to include topics in research ethics, public health policy, biotechnology and the life sciences among other areas.2 Alongside this thematic growth, the journal’s community of readers and contributors has also diversified,3 extending beyond the UK to embrace a more international perspective (a trajectory whose growth remains a priority for the journal).4",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore"
      ],
      "name": "Brian D Earp"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland"
      ],
      "name": "Tenzin Wangmo"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore",
        "Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Japan"
      ],
      "name": "Tsutomu Sawai"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Introducing JME Practical Bioethics",
  "uid": "d72a6c47-2a9c-5fc1-80e8-ea8643585b19"
}