Included in ISI from 2009!

Developing World Bioethics

Edited by:
Debora Diniz and Udo Schüklenk

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FREE as part of your subscription to Bioethics!

Developing World Bioethics provides long needed case studies, teaching materials, news in brief, and legal backgrounds to bioethics scholars and students in developing and developed countries alike. This companion journal to Bioethics features high-quality peer reviewed original articles.  Developing World Bioethics is the only journal in the field dedicated exclusively to developing countries' bioethics issues.  The journal is an essential resource for all those concerned about bioethical issues in the developing world. 

For information about Blackwell Publication Ethics, click here.

TopNews and Announcements

We are delighted to announce that from 2009, Developing World Bioethics will be indexed in the ISI Journal Citation reports. Impact factor to be announced!

Click here for information on the 2008 Udo Schüklenk Bioethics Essay Competition!

Special issue of Developing World Bioethics
A special issue of Developing World Bioethics offers a thought provoking discussion concerning the intersection of HIV/AIDS and pregnancy; and highlights a number of issues which raise many difficult and contentious ethical, legal and human rights concerns regarding how we ought to initiate standards for protecting reproductive autonomy, especially for pregnant women, in the era of HIV/AIDS. Click here to read this issue online!

Call for papers
click here to download a call for papers for a special issue of Developing World Bioethics  - Standards and Practices in a Diverse World: An Investigation into Shared Values

NEW Bioethics Book - The Bioethics Reader
A collection celebrating some of the best essays from the Blackwell journals, Bioethics and Developing World Bioethics.
Click here for further information and here to read an independent review!

New - EthxBlog
Keep up to date with http://ethxblog.blogspot.com, updated daily by Udo Schüklenk, co-editor of Bioethics and Developing World Bioethics.

Online Submission
You can now submit your manuscripts to Developing World Bioethics online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dwb

Early View
Developing World Bioethics is now part of the Wiley Interscience Early View service. Articles will now be published on a regular basis online in advance of their appearance in a print issue. These articles are fully peer reviewed, edited and complete - they only lack page numbers and volume/issue details. The articles are considered fully published from the date they first appear online. This date is shown with the article in the online table of contents. Early View articles are considered fully complete, thus, changes cannot be made to an article after the online publication date even if it is still yet to appear in print.

The articles can be cited as references by using their Digital Object Identifier (DOI) numbers. For more information on DOIs, please click here

To view all the articles currently available in Early View, simply click here. On print publication, the article will be removed from the Early View area and will appear instead in the relevant online issue, complete with page numbers and volume/issue details. No other changes will be made.

The implementation of Early View for Developing World Bioethics represents our commitment to get manuscripts available to view to the academic community as quickly as possible, reducing time to publication considerably without sacrificing quality or completeness

Free Access in the Developing World
Free online access to Bioethics and Developing World Bioethics is available within institutions in the developing world through the HINARI  initiative with the World Health Organization (WHO).

 

NIH Public Access Mandate
For those interested in the Wiley-Blackwell policy on the NIH Public Access Mandate,  please visit our policy statement. 

 

TopHighlights

Top downloads from Developing World Bioethics during 2007

Special issue - research ethics teaching modules
Various authors

Ethical and regulatory issues surrounding African traditional medicine in the context of HIV/AIDS
Aceme Nyika
 
Patents and access to drugs in developing countries: An ethical analysis
Sigrid Sterckx

The perspectives of researchers on obtaining informed consent in Developing Countries
Sam K. Newton, John Appiah-Poku

How not to compare Western scientific medicine with African traditional medicine
Godfrey B. Twanga

Rethinking medical ethics: A view from below
Paul Farmer