{{Short description|Global healthcare knowledge provider}} {{refimprove|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox publisher | image = | parent = British Medical Association | status = | founded = 1840 | founder = | successor = | country = United Kingdom | headquarters = London | distribution = | keypeople = | publications = Medical journals | url = {{URL|http://bmjgroup.com}} }} '''BMJ Group''' is a British publisher of medical journals, and healthcare knowledge provider of clinical decision tools, online educational resources, and events. Established in 1840, the company is owned by the British Medical Association.
== Publications == * 1840: ''Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal'' (later renamed the ''British Medical Journal'') first published * 1847: James Simpson uses the journal to publicise chloroform, which paved the way for modern anaesthetic techniques * 1867: Joseph Lister publishes his introduction to the concept of antiseptic in wound healing<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Lister | first1 = J | year = 1893 | title = Sir Joseph Lister on the Antiseptic Management of Wounds | url= | journal = BMJ | volume = 1 | issue = 1677| page = 379 | doi=10.1136/bmj.1.1677.379| pmc = 2402647 }}</ref> * 1950: Richard Doll publishes his discovery of the link between tobacco consumption and lung cancer<ref>[https://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/researchers/richard-doll-biography Sir Richard Peto FrS and Dame Valerie Beral FrS. The Royal Society. "Sir Richard Doll CH OBE: Biography" 2010; 10.1098/rsbm.2010.0019] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150618070636/http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/researchers/richard-doll-biography |date=2015-06-18 }}</ref> * 1958: Alice Stewart publishes her study of the risks of low-level radiation<ref>{{cite journal | pmc= 1008976 | pmid=7066239 | volume=39 | issue=2 | title=Hanford radiation study | date=May 1982 | journal=Br J Ind Med | pages=200–2 | last1 = Mole | first1 = RH | doi=10.1136/oem.39.2.200}}</ref> * 1995: First website
== Campaigns == * 1865–71: Baby farming – BMJ was largely responsible for the ''Infant Life Protection Act'' of 1872, directed against the lucrative practice of baby farming. The BMJ led a series of exposures which forced an inquiry into the state of London's work-house infirmaries.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.bmj.com/content/1/547/676.2 |title=Baby farming |journal=BMJ |date=24 June 1871 | doi = 10.1136/bmj.1.547.676-a |volume=1 |issue=547 |page=676 | last1 = Taylor | first1 = J.|s2cid=220176070 }}</ref>{{third-party inline|date=July 2022}}
== See also == * BMJ Open * BMJ academic journals * Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, of which BMJ is a member * BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health
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