Bærøe Kristine, Ives Jonathan, de Vries Martine, Schildmann Jan
Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Biomedical Ethics and Law, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, The University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
BMC Med Ethics. 2017 Apr 27;18(1):30. doi: 10.1186/s12910-017-0193-x.
In 2014, the editorial board of BMC Medical Ethics came together to devise sections for the journal that would (a) give structure to the journal (b) help ensure that authors' research is matched to the most appropriate editors and (c) help readers to find the research most relevant to them. The editorial board decided to take a practical approach to devising sections that dealt with the challenges of content management. After that, we started thinking more theoretically about how one could go about classifying the field of medical ethics. This editorial elaborates and reflects on the practical approach that we took at the journal, then considers an alternative theoretically derived approach, and reflects on the possibilities, challenges and value of classifying the field more broadly.
2014年，《BMC医学伦理学》编辑委员会齐聚一堂，为该期刊设计板块，目的是：（a）构建期刊框架；（b）帮助确保作者的研究与最合适的编辑相匹配；（c）帮助读者找到与其最相关的研究。编辑委员会决定采用一种务实的方法来设计应对内容管理挑战的板块。此后，我们开始从理论上更多地思考如何对医学伦理学领域进行分类。本社论阐述并反思了我们在该期刊所采用的务实方法，接着考虑了另一种从理论推导而来的方法，并思考了更广泛地对该领域进行分类的可能性、挑战和价值。
