In 1988 I took out a subscription to the Journal of Medical Ethics. It was not cheap, and not an easy read, but its four issues per year were manageable and interesting. Gradually a bloating set in. I was finding the journal unmanageable and less interesting, and cancelled my subscription.
Sometime in the 1990s, four issues became six. In 2000, it sprung an offshoot, Medical Humanities, with its own two issues yearly. The next year, its seven lines per inch were replaced with an eye-straining …