From Fish To Philosopher

This editorial discusses the many conveniences resulting from the creation of journals in electronic format compared to a time when all copies resided on library shelves and how potential conflicts of interest are not always disclosed by authors.

This editorial comments on the fact that unlike single specialty professional periodicals, the Journal of Allied Health is characterized by a wide spectrum of disciplines and mention is made of the role played by the reductionist scientific method in health care delivery.

This editorial refers to the gap between research and practice, which may be so large that discrepancies between evidence-based, efficacious interventions and what actually occurs in practice can be so big as to constitute a chasm.

This editorial has a focus on quality and contains information for prospective authors who contemplate submitting manuscripts to the Journal of Allied Health regarding how to enhance methodological rigor of papers being prepared.

This editorial describes the role played by having an issue of the Journal of Allied Health devoted to a specific topic and the growing importance of inter-professional education and practice.

This editorial compares the ebb and flow of a river to the cascade of words appearing in the Journal of Allied Health from issue to issue that reflect changes in terminology, topics serving as a basis for articles, and the gradual inclusion of manuscripts from other nations.

This editorial offers information about the editorial process for the Journal of Allied Health and has advice for prospective authors on how to prepare more informative manuscripts that can avoid the pitfall of ultimately being rejected for publication.

This editorial discusses how economic development after World War II in Italy leading to the disappearance of insects circling around children shepherds at night may be compared to the impact of technology on the decline of newspapers and the effect it might have on journals.

This editorial refers to the use of impact factors, when the Journal of Allied Health added an electronic version, and why Socrates believed that oral words or “living speech” were vastly superior to the “dead discourse” of written speech.

This editorial describes a chapter in Ulysses by James Joyce in which changes in prose style of the book are related metaphorically to the nine-month gestation of a human fetus. Other examples reflect how the Journal of Allied Health evolved over the decades.