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Against the background of the current military situation in the middle east readers might wonder why we have decided to publish this special issue. The purpose of this Editorial is to shed light on our decision-making.
Substantively the justification for this topic is well made in Hunter Jackson Smith's Guest Editorial [1]. Many military missions have significant global health ethics implications, affecting in particular countries of the global south. However, there is more to this. Hunter Jackson Smith had put great effort into guest editing this special issue, albeit for a different journal. The American Medical Association's ethics journal, AMA Journal of Ethics, had agreed to publish the compilation of articles you see in this issue of Developing World Bioethics.
After this agreement was made the American Medical Association decided that it wasn't worth its resources to support an Open Access, free-to-publish journal in medical ethics. The association shut down the journal without advance warning and without any planned transition process.
There has been some speculation among academics in the medical ethics fields that the decision to end the journal abruptly, with no consideration for already processed and accepted articles, is related to a desire by the association not to end up in the crosshairs of the current US government. I have no way of telling whether that is true. The journal certainly had no underlying business model and relied on permanent financial support from the American Medical Association.
When Hunter Jackson Smith approached us as a possible venue for the articles he had commissioned for the AMA Journal of Ethics, we agreed to do so. All articles in this issue of the journal have undergone standard external peer review processes, and we are delighted to present them to you.
The author declares no conflicts of interest.
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
在当前中东军事局势的背景下，读者可能会奇怪我们为什么决定出版这期特刊。这篇社论的目的是阐明我们的决策。在亨特·杰克逊·史密斯的客座社论b[1]中，这个话题的实质理由是很好的。许多军事任务具有重大的全球卫生伦理影响，特别是影响到全球南方国家。然而，还有更多的原因。亨特·杰克逊·史密斯花了很大的精力来客串编辑这期特刊，尽管是为另一本杂志。美国医学协会的伦理杂志《AMA伦理杂志》已经同意发表你在本期《发展中国家生物伦理学》上看到的文章汇编。在这个协议达成之后，美国医学协会决定，不值得用它的资源来支持一本开放获取、免费出版的医学伦理学杂志。该协会在没有事先警告的情况下关闭了该杂志，也没有任何计划好的过渡过程。医学伦理领域的一些学者猜测，突然停刊的决定，不考虑已经处理和接受的文章，与该协会不想成为现任美国政府的目标有关。我无法判断那是不是真的。该杂志当然没有潜在的商业模式，依赖于美国医学协会的永久财政支持。当亨特·杰克逊·史密斯（Hunter Jackson Smith）找到我们，希望能在这里发表他为《美国医学会伦理学杂志》（AMA Journal of Ethics）委托撰写的文章时，我们同意了。本期杂志的所有文章都经过了标准的外部同行评审程序，我们很高兴将它们呈现给您。作者声明无利益冲突。数据共享不适用于本文，因为在当前研究期间没有生成或分析数据集。
期刊介绍：
Developing World Bioethics provides long needed case studies, teaching materials, news in brief, and legal backgrounds to bioethics scholars and students in developing and developed countries alike. This companion journal to Bioethics also features high-quality peer reviewed original articles. It is edited by well-known bioethicists who are working in developing countries, yet it will also be open to contributions and commentary from developed countries'' authors.
Developing World Bioethics is the only journal in the field dedicated exclusively to developing countries'' bioethics issues. The journal is an essential resource for all those concerned about bioethical issues in the developing world. Members of Ethics Committees in developing countries will highly value a special section dedicated to their work.
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