Another publication- kinda

[hobbitomm]

So, our edition of 'BBC History' magazine comes through the door the other day. I have a quick glance- and notice that in their letters page there's a letter about the 'first plastic surgical operation', dated for 1816. Erm. No.

So, one quick raid of my SCA paper on 16th century (and earlier) surgery later, I'm sending a 'reply to the editor', complete with pictures and reference. I got a mail back saying, 'Excellent. We'll publish it.'

Now, the question is, it's not a peer review journal, so do I include it on my CV?

Comments

[graylion.livejournal.com]

beep? hell yeah!

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

Sure, there's got to be some sort of "other activities" section you can file that under... Very cool! Go you!

[idaho-smith.livejournal.com]

I'd do so!
It's not peer reviewed, but its repectable due to the BBC umbrella (certainly more so Cosmo or even (shudder) Heat) and you could justify it under the assumption that "communicating medical science concepts to lay-persons" is useful.
E.g you often see Medics on Newsnight etc. explaining new advances, and plastics is an interesting field to the hoi-polloi as they can see the results.

So sez me, whose first paper is still awaiting peer-review (must do osme catch-up posts soon...)

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Yes!

[idliz.livejournal.com]

Congrats.

Yep, you should definitely include it. Put in some bollocks about "promoting awareness and understanding of medical research and practice within a wider public sphere" or some such nonsense.

Wil stayed at mum and dad's last night. He's en route from somewhere terribly important to somewhere else terribly important in order to do something terribly important, but as you can tell I didn't really grasp the details.

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Prof's advice was 'Put it in, but make sure you note that it's not peer review, as I once went through an application, and of 30 publications, only 4 were peer review journals'.

So, I shall :)

this came over the Nordmark Runestone

[helwig.livejournal.com]

lady Anna de Byxe sent this link to the Runstenen with the question
"Who would want a medival surgery set?`"
Your name came to mind.... so if you have not seen it before, follow the link below:

http://www.medievaldesign.com/coltelleriaeng.html

Helwig

Re: this came over the Nordmark Runestone

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, sexy!

Sadly, 250E is too much for a frippery. But something to keep in mind if I ever find a reaaaaally generous blacksmith :)

I do actually have an A&S project in mind, involving a leg of lamb (skin on), a bit of suturing of rubber-tube linked to fake blood vial to artery, and a medieval surgical kit. And a volunteer to pretend to have their leg amputated ;)