Journal of Medical Biography  The Journal of Medical Biography is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1993 covering the lives of people in or associated with medicine, including medical figures and well-known characters from history and their afflictions. The journal is abstracted and indexed in PubMed, MEDLINE, and Scopus. It was established in 1993 and is published by Sage Publications on behalf of the Royal Society of Medicine. The current Editor-in-Chief is Christopher Gardner-Thorpe.