Ethical aspects of publishing in scientific journals are an important issue addressed since the late 1970s by the Interna- tional Committee of Medical Journal Editors (1978). Today, medical journals also benefit from other international organi- zations’ recommendations such as the Committee on Publica- tion Ethics, World Association of Medical Editors, and World Health Organization (WHO). These international best prac- tices guidelines cover various ethical issues related to integrity in research, authorship, conflicts of interest, and so on. However, ethical principles of publishing in psychiatry have received little attention in the literature, and more specifically, to date, there are no international anti-racist policies to guide the management of historical psychiatric publications with pseudoscientific and racist content. The World Medical Association (WMA) defines the term pseu- doscience as “a set of statements, assumptions, methods, beliefs and practices which, without having been tested by a valid and recognized scientific method, are falsely pre- sented as scientific.”
Historical Scientific Racism and Psychiatric Publications: A Necessary International Anti-racist Code of Ethics
Roberto Beneduce;
2021-01-01
Abstract
Ethical aspects of publishing in scientific journals are an important issue addressed since the late 1970s by the Interna- tional Committee of Medical Journal Editors (1978). Today, medical journals also benefit from other international organi- zations’ recommendations such as the Committee on Publica- tion Ethics, World Association of Medical Editors, and World Health Organization (WHO). These international best prac- tices guidelines cover various ethical issues related to integrity in research, authorship, conflicts of interest, and so on. However, ethical principles of publishing in psychiatry have received little attention in the literature, and more specifically, to date, there are no international anti-racist policies to guide the management of historical psychiatric publications with pseudoscientific and racist content. The World Medical Association (WMA) defines the term pseu- doscience as “a set of statements, assumptions, methods, beliefs and practices which, without having been tested by a valid and recognized scientific method, are falsely pre- sented as scientific.”
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