JBI Dialogues

Articles from the JBI archives: Anniversary collection picks (2011-2016) with former editor-in-chief Leigh Rich

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Season 2 Episode 2

This year, the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry turns 20! To celebrate the 20th anniversary, the JBI has released select articles from the archives as a special anniversary collection

How would you pick out just a few articles to represent two decades of work in the JBI? What papers have stood out or stayed with you, and why?  Editors-in-chief past and present were invited to nominate papers published during their tenures and to share their reasons for their choices.

On this first episode of the series on the anniversary collection, we are joined by Prof Leigh E Rich, former editor-in-chief of the JBI (2011-2016).  

Leigh shares reflections and insights from 20 years of bioethical inquiry and scholarship. Leigh talks to us about doubt and its weaponisation, how to think about bioethics through pop culture (can 90s alternative music provide insights on abortion?), and their three nominated articles for the JBI's anniversary collection.

You can read Leigh's part of the editorial online: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry - Editorial Choices

You can read Leigh's picks for the anniversary collection free online for a limited time here. These are:

Adlan, A.A., and Henk A.M.J. ten Have. 2012. The dilemma of revealing sensitive information on paternity status in Arabian social and cultural contexts: Telling the truth about paternity in Saudi Arabia. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 9(4): 403–409.

Manninen, B.A. 2015. Mutual scorn within the abortion debate: Some parallels with race relations. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 12(2): 295–31.

Jameton, A. 2013. A reflection on moral distress in nursing together with a current application of the concept. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 10(3): 297–308.

Leigh E Rich is Professor of Health Administration at Georgia Southern University and an expert in bioethics, biotechnology, health communication, and gender and the media.

Music by Lidérc via Pixabay