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Call for Chapters: Machine Medical Ethics, Edited Collection

You are warmly invited to submit your research chapter for possible inclusion in an edited collection entitled Machine Medical Ethics. Target publication date: 2014.

The new field of Artificial Intelligence called Machine Ethics is concerned with ensuring that the behaviour of machines towards human users and other machines is ethical. This unique edited collection aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for researchers in this field to present new research and developments in Machine Medical Ethics. Areas of interest for this edited collection include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Foundational Concepts

What is medical ethics?

What is machine medical ethics?

What are the consequences of creating or not creating ethical medical machines?

Can medical machines be autonomous?

Ought medical machines to operate autonomously, or under (complete or partial) human physician control?

Theories of Machine Medical Ethics

What theories of machine medical ethics are most theoretically plausible and most empirically supported?

Ought machine medical ethics be rule-based (top-down), case- based (bottom-up), or a hybrid view of both top-down and bottom-up?

Is an interdisciplinary approach suited to designing a machine medical ethical theory? (e.g., collaboration between philosophy, psychology, AI, computational neuroscience…)

Medical Machine Training

What does ethical training for medical machines consist in: ethical principles, ethical theories, or ethical skills? Is a hybrid approach best?

What training regimes currently tested and/or used are most successful?

Can ethically trained medical machines become unethical?

Can a medical machine learn empathy (caring) and skills relevant to the patient-physician relationship?

Can a medical machine learn to give an apology for a medical error?

Ought medical machines to be trained to detect and respond to patient embarrassment and/or issues of patient privacy? What social norms are relevant for training?

Ought medical machines to be trained to show sensitivity to gender, cultural and age-differences?

Ought machines to teach medicine and medical ethics to human medical students?

Patient-Machine-Physician Relationship

What role ought imitation or mimicry to play in the patient-machine-physician relationship?

What role ought empathy or caring to play in the patient-machine-physician relationship?

What skills are necessary to maintain a good patient-machine-physician relationship?

Ought medical machines be able to detect patient fakery and malingering?

Under what conditions ought medical machines to operate with a nurse?

In what circumstances should a machine physician consult with human or other machine physicians regarding patient assessment or diagnosis?

Medical Machine Physical Appearance

Is there a correlation between physical appearance and physician trustworthiness?

Ought medical machines to appear human or non-human?

Is a highly plastic human-like face essential to medical machines? Or, is a static face sufficient?

What specific morphological facial features ought medical machines to have?

Ought medical machines to be gendered or androgynous?

Ought medical machines to possess a human-like body with mobile limbs?

What vocal characteristics ought medical machines to have?

As a new field, the target audiences are expected to be from the scientists, researchers, and practitioners working in the field of machine ethics and medical ethics. The target audience will also include various stakeholders, like academics, research institutes, and individuals interested in this field, and the huge audience in the public sector comprising health service providers, government agencies, ministries, education institutions, social service providers and other types of government, commercial and not-for-profit agencies.

Please indicate your intention to submit your full paper by email to the editor who emails you with the title of the paper, authors, and abstract. The full manuscript, as PDF file, should be emailed to that same editor by the deadline indicated below. Authoring guidelines will be mailed to you after we receive your letter of intent.

Please feel free to contact the editors, Simon van Rysewyk or Dr. Matthijs Pontier, if you have any questions or concerns. Many thanks!

IMPORTANT DATES:

Intent to Submit: June 10, 2013

Full Version: October 20, 2013

Decision Date: November 10, 2013

Final Version: December 31, 2013

Editors:

Simon van Rysewyk

School of Humanities
University of Tasmania
Private Bag 41
Hobart
Tasmania 7001
Australia

Email: simonvanrysewyk@utas.edu.au

Dr. Matthijs Pontier

Post-Doctoral Researcher
The Centre for Advanced Media Research (CAMeRA)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Buitenveldertselaan 3
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Email: matthijspon@gmail.com

Call for Papers: Psychology of Sexualities Review

The Psychology of Sexualities Review (PoSR), formerly the Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review, is an international peer-reviewed publication. The rebranded journal is published twice a year (Spring and Autumn) by the British Psychological Society (BPS). The Psychology of Sexualities Review encourages the following types of submission:

Empirical, theoretical and review articles on any aspect of the psychology of sexualities

Book reviews

Bibliographic articles

Short articles on relevant research papers, conference reports

Reflective clinical pieces and case-studies

Short reports, commentaries and opinion pieces

Notices of events and activities of likely interest to members of the BPS Psychology of Sexualities Section

Submitting Your Article:

Articles and General Submissions should be sent electronically to the Editor, Dr Kristoff Bonello at: kristoffbonello@hotmail.com with the text 'Manuscript Submission POSR' in the email header. Submissions should be sent as a Word Document attachment, together with a covering letter. A copy should be retained by the author(s). PDF attachments are also acceptable.

For submission queries, or any general queries about the Psychology of Sexualities Review, please contact the Editor as detailed above.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Drug Policy: Global Patterns of Domestic Cannabis Cultivation

Guest editors:

Gary R. Potter and Tom Decorte

The traditional model of the global cannabis drug trade has been of cultivation in developing world countries (such as Morocco, Mexico, Afghanistan, and Lebanon), with consumer nations of the industrialised west importing the drug. The reality of the global cannabis market has been different for some time now. A number of western developed nations have well-established patterns of domestic cultivation and many more have seen a recent trend of import substitution. Although international trafficking is still a major part of the global cannabis market, more and more countries are finding at least part of their domestic consumption is met by domestic cultivation.  Along with the emergence (or, at least, recognition) of domestic cultivation in an increasing number of countries there has been an increase in research into this phenomenon - the people and methods involved in cultivation, the explanatory factors behind import substitution, and the way this has shaped national and international cannabis markets. This special issue aims to critically examine and advance research on differences in the characteristics, motivations, cultivation methods and organisational structures of those individuals and groups involved in cannabis cultivation, as well as the factors that may help to explain these differences (different national contexts, but also different methodologies or samples). It also aims to consider developments in policing, policy and other responses to cannabis cultivation.

Abstracts (not to exceed 350 words) are invited for contributions to a forthcoming special issue of the International Journal of Drug Policy (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-journal-of-drug-policy).

We encourage submissions that address the following topics, though we welcome submissions on other topics related to the theme:

• Explore internationally comparative data on cannabis cultivation in different countries (e.g. differences in the mechanics and organisation of cultivation and in the motivation, demographic profiles and opinions of cultivators)

• theorize and develop models to address the question of variance in patterns of domestic cultivation in the western world; and relate that to contextual differences (e.g. different policies, cultures and economic conditions of different countries and regions).

• examine how patterns of domestic cannabis cultivation vary across subgroups of cannabis growers in individual countries (e.g. building new typologies of cannabis growers, adding to the typologies that have already been developed; “medical” versus “recreational” growers, criminal involvement of different types of growers, etc.);

• investigate how patterns of cannabis cultivation affect cannabis users’ pattern of consumption;

• examine the impacts of cannabis (or more general drug) policies on cannabis cultivation; deterrence of and risk perceptions among cannabis cultivators

• examine growers’ views on cannabis policies.

Qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, and historical research are welcome. Papers must discuss the implications of their findings for policy.

We invite six types of contributions (NB: in rare circumstances word limits may be exceeded with permission from the editors):

• Research papers: Research papers are usually based on original empirical analyses, but may also be discursive critical essays. These papers are usually between 3,000 and 5,000 words.

• Research methods papers: These papers explore methodological innovations in the field and are usually between 3,000 and 5,000 words.

• Commentary: These papers explore in depth a particular topic or issue for debate, and may also include evidence and analysis. The Editor may invite expert responses to commentaries for publication in the same issue. Commentaries are usually between 2,500 and 4,000 words.

• Viewpoint: Short comments and opinion pieces of up to 1,200 words which raise an issue for discussion, or comprise a case report on an issue relevant to research, policy, or practice.

• Policy or historical analysis: These are focused specifically around contemporary or historical analyses of policies and their impacts, and are usually between 3,000 and 5,000 words.

• Review: These papers seek to review systematically a particular area of research, intervention, or policy. Reviews are usually between 4,000 and 8,000 words.

Abstracts should be emailed to tom.decorte@ugent.be and to potterg@lsbu.ac.uk by May 31. The email subject heading should read “IJDP Special Issue”. The editors will inform authors by June 30 whether to proceed to full submission. If selected, complete manuscripts will be due October 15. All manuscripts are subject to the normal IJDP peer review process. The special issue is expected to  be published in 2014.

Call for Papers for a Special Focus Issue of the International Journal of Drug Policy: Governance of Drug Policy: Actors, Interests and Processes

Guest Editors:

Susanne MacGregor, Nicola Singleton and Franz Trautmann

The concept of ‘governance’ has replaced ideas of public or social administration in contemporary discussions on politics and policy. This draws attention to new processes of governing in increasingly complex societies. Although understandings of the concept and definitions of the term may differ, issues raised include: the role of networks and policy communities; the influence of different stakeholders  and  interests on the design and implementation of policy; the shape of the new public management – such as forms of contracting and compliance procedures; new styles of governing in multi-level arrangements, such as those of the European Union; and links between the public and private sectors and with civil society. Key assumptions are that the boundaries of the nation-state are more permeable in a globalised world and that new modes of coordination are now required, involving linkages between actors beyond the traditional forms of government. Complexity and change are major themes in this literature.

Abstracts (not to exceed 350 words) are invited for contributions to a forthcoming special issue of the International Journal of Drug Policy. This special edition will critically examine the relevance of the concept of governance and debates surrounding it to understanding of drug policy and discuss what implications this has for the promotion of better policies. The focus is on the ‘how’ of drug policy-making and delivery (its form) rather than the ‘what’ (its content).

We encourage submissions that address the following topics, though we welcome submissions on other topics related to the theme. Papers should focus on issues relating to psychoactive substances widely defined but not deal primarily with alcohol, tobacco, (or sugar or gambling) unless commenting on lessons for drugs policy from research on these substances (or behaviours):

CRITICAL DISCUSSIONS

• Issues arising in researching the governance of drug policy

• What is ‘good governance’?

• The utility of models of governance and policy making

• The place of evidence in contemporary processes of governance

• Lessons for drugs from examples of patterns of governance of other substances eg tobacco,  alcohol and foodstuffs

• Analysis of how governance factors and processes may impede or facilitate change in policy eg from prohibition to regulation to decriminalisation

• Mechanisms for accountability and scrutiny within the governance of drug policy and their effectiveness in safeguarding the interests of different groups.

CASE STUDIES (at international, national, regional or local level or interaction between levels)

• How different policy actors operate to influence the policy process, including: strategies, alliances and coalitions between different types of policy actors – state, commercial, professions, and NGOs; the role and practices of interest groups in relation to political parties; the influence of lobbyists and networks on decision making

• How  governance structures and processes create opportunities for or impede radical policy initiatives

• The role of governance factors in a specific instance of policy change: eg marijuana legislation in states of USA; regulation of new psychoactive substances in New Zealand;  and the decriminalisation of cannabis

• How interests frame perceptions of problems and solutions proposed

• Comparative cross national analysis of governance arrangements.

• Role of social networking or new media in governance processes

Qualitative or mixed methods and historical and/or comparative research are welcome.

We invite six types of contributions:

• Research papers: research papers are usually based on original empirical analyses but may be discursive critical essays dealing with theoretical or methodological or policy issues. These papers are usually between 3,000 and 5,000 words.

• Research methods papers: these papers explore methodological innovations in the field and are usually between 3,000 and 5,000 words

• Commentary: these papers explore in depth a particular topic or issue for debate and may also include evidence and analysis. We may invite expert responses to commentaries for publication in the same issue. Commentaries are usually between 2,500 and 4,000 words.

• Viewpoint: short comments and opinion pieces of up to 1,200 words which raise an issue for discussion or comprise a case report on an issue relevant to research, policy or practice

• Policy or historical analysis: these are focused specifically around contemporary or historical analyses of policies and their impact and are usually between 3,000 and 5,000 words

• Review: these papers seek to review systematically a particular area of research, intervention or policy. Reviews are usually between 4000 and 8000 words.

Abstracts should be mailed to Susanne.MacGregor@LSHTM.ac.uk by 31 May 2013. The email subject heading should read ‘IJDP special issue’. The editors will inform authors by 30 June 2013 whether to proceed to full submission. If selected, complete manuscripts will be due by 30 September 2013.All manuscripts are subject to normal IJDP peer review process. The issue is expected to be published in 2014.

Call for Papers for the Series History and Philosophy of Technoscience

There is a popular view that science discovers and technology applies, a view that is increasingly under threat. Technoscience refers to a growing number of fields such as nanotechnology, synthetic biology and climate studies where it is not possible to separate the scientific from the technological. This series addresses historical and philosophical issues surrounding technoscientific research and explores the rich and complex interconnection between science and technology, a connection that has been moulded by centuries of engagement with real world problems.

We invite submissions from established scholars and first-time authors alike. Prospective authors should send a detailed proposal with a rationale, chapter outlines and at least two sample chapters alongside a brief author's biography and an anticipated submission date.

Send your proposals to:

Alfred Nordmann nordmann@phil.tu-darmstadt.de

Philip Good pgood@pickeringchatto.co.uk

Call for Papers for a Special Section of the Australian Music Therapy Journal: Aspects of Culture in Music Therapy

Vol 25, 2014

Guest Editor: Dr Helen Shoemark (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne Australia)

Purpose and scope

The growth in immigration patterns around the globe means that we are now likely to encounter people from many cultures within our own community. The potential influence on our practices as music therapists are both exciting and daunting as we consider the multiple meanings of music and the role of music for people from different cultures. The vibrant mobility of music therapy graduates, educators and clinicians means we are also experiencing a previously unknown sharing of music therapy knowledge and practice across many cultures within our profession. While some cultures dominate both education and practice, the growth of music therapy in many corners of the world is strong. How are we attending to culture in our thinking and learning, in the experiences of our clients, and in the acceptability of music therapy as a worldwide profession?

Possible topics for submission include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Inclusive practices

• Acknowledging diversity

• Considerations in training

• Understanding the music

• Policy support

• Acceptability in new communities

• New epistemologies

• Recognition of culture in research

International studies involving collaborative approaches are particularly welcomed.

Submission requirements:

Please submit your electronic abstract (max 2 pages) of the proposed paper by Friday August 23rd, 2013 by e-mail to Dr Helen Shoemark who will advise on the suitability of the paper for the special focus. Abstracts must clearly state the paper objectives, issues, methods and findings as appropriate, application of results and conclusions. A short list of references is required. Authors whose abstracts are accepted will still be required to submit a full paper for blind, independent peer-review. This two-fold process is designed to enable authors to know if the manuscript is within the scope of the edition before completing the full manuscript.

Submission Guidelines:

http://www.austmta.org.au/publications/ajmt-our-journal/ajmt-contributer-notes/

Deadline for the submission of abstract: August 23rd 2013

Deadline for submission of full paper: November 29th 2013

For further information about the Special Edition, please contact: Helen Shoemark.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color: Race, Gender, and Disability

Abstracts Due: 6/1/13

Manuscripts Due: 10/20/2013

Despite discourse on gender/sexuality and race/ethnicity or gender and disability, there are few studies about the intersections of race, gender and disability from a critical perspective. This issue will focus on articles that analyze these intersections from different disciplinary perspectives. Categories include interrogations into the lives of people of color and white subjects from a critical whiteness perspective; gender as it encompasses interrogations of femininity, masculinity, transgender, or intersex subjectivity and any form of sexual expression and identity and their intersection; and disability to encompass impairment and the socio-cultural aspects that accompany it.

Topics include but not limited to:

Family caregiving or parenting at the intersections of gender/race/disability

Lived experiences of disabled women/people of color

Representations of disability in families of color in films and literature

News and media representations of race, disability and gender/sexuality

Historical analysis that highlights these intersections (e.g., eugenics)

Policy, activism and interventions that empower disabled people of color

Articles connecting disability studies, queer theory and women's studies to critical race theory and critical whiteness studies

Analysis of policies related to education, employment, immigration and incarceration that centers on the intersections of race, gender and ability.

Contact: Guest-Editors Sandy Magana, maganas@uic.edu; Liat Ben Moshe, lbenmosh@uic.edu, University of Wisconsin.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Academic Psychiatry: Psychiatric Education and Neuroscience

Over the past few decades, psychiatric research has increasingly converged on the importance of neuroscience for understanding psychopathology, the mechanisms of current treatments, and avenues for novel therapeutics. Despite these large scientific advances, education of psychiatrists in neuroscience has lagged significantly. This lag may be attributable to numerous factors, the result of which is a psychiatric workforce presently unprepared for understanding these innovations, interfacing with patients over them, and integrating neuroscientific advances into their clinical care.

Insights into and attempts to bridge the science-to-training gap, however, have already begun taking shape. These efforts have started on a small scale, but may very importantly inform broader efforts by the field to bring psychiatric practice closer into the fold of neuroscience. At the same time, there are concerns among clinicians that an exclusive focus on neuroscience may diminish the historically humanistic nature of psychiatry. To this aim, Academic Psychiatry is creating a special issue of articles that explore the nature of the gap, reasons why the training is lagging behind the science, and avenues for bridging this gap in creative ways, while being mindful to retain the many existing virtues of clinical psychiatry.

In keeping with the overall mission of Academic Psychiatry, papers ideally will be evidence-based, drawing upon data and outcome measures, and/or involving multiple sites. Comprehensive reviews and case studies are also welcome. All submissions will be peer reviewed in keeping with the journal's policy. Submissions are due by July 1, 2013.

Submissions should be uploaded to ScholarOne Manuscripts (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/appi-ap). Please indicate in the cover letter that the submission is for this special issue. For more information, please visit our Web site at ap.psychiatryonline.org. Please direct questions on the submission process to Ms. Ann Tennier, Senior Editorial Associate, at 262-346-1461 or acadpsych@gmail.com.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Psychology of Popular Media Culture: Video Games and Children

February 1, 2014: submission deadline

The degree to which video games do or do not impact children, both positively and negatively, continues to be a topic of discussion and controversy in the scholarly community and general public. The ensuing debates have made clear the divergent opinions within the scholarly community regarding the potential impact of violent video games on children's behavior.

At times, these debates have become acrimonious, arguably because these debates are not merely academic, but entwined with both phenomena related to societal violence and "culture war" debates about what media content is moral. The tenor of such debates, both within the scholarly community and general public can, at times, stifle efforts by scholars with differing perspectives to find common ground and understand their divergent views and data.

This special issue is viewed as an opportunity to provide a public forum for scholars on all sides of these debates to discuss new data and new directions in video game science.

Thus, papers addressing the influences of video games on children are invited. It is expected that a range of differing views and data will be included in the final special issue.

These are some guidelines for papers that will be particularly competitive for inclusion in the special issue:

Empirical papers will be given priority over review or theoretical papers. Review/theoretical papers that advance understanding beyond past "video games are good/bad" debates may be competitive, however.

All papers should consider influences on children or teenagers. College student samples will not be given priority.

To avoid publication bias issues, papers finding statistically significant effects as well as those finding null results will be given equal weight. In all cases, careful consideration of the interpretation of effect sizes should be given greater emphasis than a binary statistical significance decision.

Papers examining both positive and negative outcomes are welcome. Papers need not be on aggression/violence or mental health, but could also consider cognition, problem solving, stress, etc.

Papers should be no more than 30 pages in length, total, including references.

By exchanging views and data across debates in this field it is hoped that the special issue will provide a new start for collegial discussion of these issues as the field moves forward.

Manuscripts can be submitted through the Journal's Manuscript Submission Portal. Please note in your cover letter that you are submitting for this special issue and send in attention to Christopher J. Ferguson.

Questions about the special issue can be addressed to the guest editor Christopher J. Ferguson.

First submission papers will be accepted through February 1, 2014.

2013 Journal of the Dermatology Nurses' Association Writing Awards

Write, be published, and you could win an award!

Awards will be offered in 3 categories:

• Best clinical article

• Best research article

• Most viewed article at JDNAonline.com

Use our online submission process to submit your article.  http://www.editorialmanager.com/jdna/

All manuscripts published in JDNA in 2013 will be eligible for consideration.There will be one $250 prize for each category, to be awarded at the 2014 annual DNA conference.

If you have any questions, please contact Angela L. Borger, DNP, FNP, DNC, at alborger@aol.com.