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Biomedical Research

How to plan, publish and present it

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. William F. Whimster

    1. The School of Medicine and Dentistry, King’s College, London, UK

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Planning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Types and design of research

      • William F. Whimster
      Pages 2-11

    3. Literature searching and information retrieval

      • Gary Horrocks
      Pages 12-20

    4. The key biomedical databases

      • Gary Horrocks
      Pages 21-33

    5. The search interface and the Internet

      • Gary Horrocks
      Pages 34-44

    6. Applying for ethics committee approval and research grants

      • William F. Whimster
      Pages 45-48

  3. Results

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. Data handling and interpretation

      • William F. Whimster
      Pages 50-69

    3. The visual display of data

      • William F. Whimster
      Pages 70-91

  4. Writing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Planning the writing

      • William F. Whimster
      Pages 94-99

    3. Original articles

      • William F. Whimster
      Pages 100-111

    4. Rewriting

      • William F. Whimster
      Pages 112-123

    5. Submitting the work

      • William F. Whimster
      Pages 124-125

    6. Other writing, including theses

      • William F. Whimster
      Pages 126-129

    7. Writing by those whose first language is not English

      • William F. Whimster
      Pages 130-133

  5. The journal office

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. The editorial process

      • William F. Whimster
      Pages 136-141

    3. Peer review

      • William F. Whimster
      Pages 142-146
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About this book

It is a distinct pleasure to be invited to prepare a short Foreword to Biomedical Research: How to plan, publish and present it, by William F. Whimster. Ninety years have elapsed since T. Clifford Allbutt, the Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge, published his c1assic work of 1904 Notes on the Composition of Scientific Papers. Small in size, but deep in wisdom, it remains a remarkably useful, if slightly old-fashioned, book, still weIl worth reading. Since 1904, and particularly in the last 25 years, there has been an avalanche of books on scientific style. Medawar has aptly observed that "most scientists do not know how to write, insofar as style betrays I' homme meme, they write as if they hated writing and want­ ed nothing more than to have done with it. " Whimster's book has a broader objective than most of this genre. Unlike Allbutt, who was addressing in the main those who were writing their theses to obtain the MD, Whimster writes for the young medical scientists who are planning and writing up an account of their research, either for pub­ lication in scientific journals, or for presentation of the scientific material at meetings. Whimster, a scientist and an experienced long­ term science editor, has written an up-to-date version of an earlier and very successful volume, Research, How to Plan, Speak and Write About It, edited by C. Hawkins and M. Sorgi.

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  • The School of Medicine and Dentistry, King’s College, London, UK

    William F. Whimster

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