This month's innovations

There are several firsts this month. We republish an editorial which first appeared in the October issue ofBritish Journal of Ophthalmology (page 452). The BMJ group produces more than 20 specialist journals. They contain a mine of information which few of us have time to access—a wasted resource. Consequently, a syndications editor has been appointed to scan these journals and recommend to his colleagues papers they might wish to republish in full or in part. So far asADC is concerned, the aim is to draw our readers' attention to important papers they might not otherwise know about.

Secondly, after much deliberation, we are publishing interview material obtained from a convicted child murderer (page 454). Our motive is not prurience; we believe the perpetrator's words illuminate startlingly the fact that someone can kill their child yet still express intense feelings of attachment and grief. Paediatricians, police officers, the judiciary, and social workers have long been aware of this paradox. However, many …