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CMAJ
CMAJ - June 13, 2000JAMC - le 13 juin 2000

Electronic wonderland

CMAJ 2000;162:1663

In response to: J. Tagg and G. Lindsay
I thank John Tagg and Gord Lindsay for responding to my article [Commentary]1 in which I sketched a vision of the future of medical publishing — only time will tell how unrealistic or naïve it is. I don't expect publishers to roll over, as Tagg suggests, although I predict publishers who do not innovate will be bowled over by the tsunami of electronic publishing bearing down upon them. Despite the parody in Lindsay's letter, the vision of a public informed and active in health matters is a good one. Lindsay and Tagg neglect the key point in my article: there is a terrible inequality in medical knowledge around the world, and we need to find innovative ways to remedy this in the interests of global peace and justice.

Peter A. Singer
University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics
Toronto, Ont.

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Reference
  1. Singer PA. Medical journals are dead. Long live medical journals. CMAJ 2000;162(4):517-8.

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