Published 7 April 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b1375
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A Reformation for our times

Free up the canon

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Shaw’s use of the Reformation as an analogy of medical information on the internet is interesting,1 but a difference occurs to me.

Ordinary people during the Reformation received the top religious information resource—the Bible—translated into the spoken language, printed, and sold at a reasonable price. On the internet currently, today’s ordinary folk can access only a mishmash of medical information, some good, some bad. Most of the canon used by doctors is still not available because of price.

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Adam W Clark, librarian1

1 Ian Potter Library, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia

a.clark@alfred.org.au

Competing interests: None declared.

  1. Shaw J. A Reformation for our times. BMJ 2009;338:b1080. (18 March.)[Free Full Text]

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