Biomedical Research: How to plan, publish and present it

✍ Scribed by William F. Whimster MA, MD (Cantab), FRCP (Lond), FRCPath (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 268
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Types and design of research....Pages 2-11
Literature searching and information retrieval....Pages 12-20
The key biomedical databases....Pages 21-33
The search interface and the Internet....Pages 34-44
Applying for ethics committee approval and research grants....Pages 45-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Data handling and interpretation....Pages 50-69
The visual display of data....Pages 70-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Planning the writing....Pages 94-99
Original articles....Pages 100-111
Rewriting....Pages 112-123
Submitting the work....Pages 124-125
Other writing, including theses....Pages 126-129
Writing by those whose first language is not English....Pages 130-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
The editorial process....Pages 136-141
Peer review....Pages 142-146
Dealing with acceptance and rejection....Pages 147-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Planning presentations....Pages 152-154
“Conference Abstracts”....Pages 155-156
Presenting papers at meetings....Pages 157-162
Presenting posters at meetings....Pages 163-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
The final word....Pages 170-170
Back Matter....Pages 171-246

✦ Subjects

Medicine/Public Health, general; Life Sciences, general; Biomedicine general; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences