Abstract

In 1957, D. J. Ingle, the first editor of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, explained why he thought a new journal was needed for scientists and physicians already inundated by publications. With professional journals increasingly focused on smaller and smaller systems and preoccupied with publishing data, he decided that readers needed a forum in which there was space for leisurely interpretation, speculation, and exploration of new ideas. Ingle intended for the journal to reach into all fields of biology and medicine. The journal would welcome scholarly writing from any discipline that could offer new insight and informed thinking to “take stock” of the results and implications of current research. He..