Ethics calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Psychology of Violence: The Measurement of Violence and Victimization

A Special Issue for Psychology of Violence Edited by John Grych and Sherry Hamby

Psychology of Violence invites manuscripts for a special issue on the measurement of violence and victimization, including self-report, observational, and experimental techniques for assessing violence and mechanisms proposed to cause violence. It is our hope that this special issue will help propel the study of violence forward and become a resource for anyone looking for guidance on conducting state-of-the-art research on violence.

Violence research was launched in part by the realization that people would disclose involvement in violence on confidential self-report surveys, whether this involvement involved victimization, perpetration, or both. Many surveys have now been developed to measure violence and related constructs. The field has also seen advances in experimental approaches to the study of violence, from Milgram's obedience experiment to modern techniques such as the Hot Sauce paradigm.

Our success in measuring violence has transformed research, intervention, and policy. However, existing measurement strategies have also produced unresolved controversies, such as questions about gender patterns in intimate partner violence and the impact of exposure to media violence. No field of science can rest on its laurels and the need for innovation is ever present.

This issue is intended to address the primary methodological limitations getting in the way of better understanding the causes, rates, and consequences of violence, especially those pertaining to measurement, and to offer potential solutions to these problems. It will focus on all facets of the measurement of violence, including but not limited to those suggested below.

We conceptualize violence broadly, including child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, bullying, community violence, teen dating violence, elder abuse, sexual aggression, conventional crime, psychological aggression, suicidal behavior, and stalking, and papers addressing any form of violence are welcome.
Topics may include but are not limited to:

New approaches to the measurement of any form of violence or victimization and the mechanisms hypothesized to cause violence
Assessment of aggression and violence in laboratory settings

Innovative methods for studying mechanisms hypothesized to cause violence (e.g., implicit cognitive processes, biological/genetic factors).

Measuring violence equally validly across groups that vary by gender, ethnicity, race, culture, sexual orientation or other groups who may experience different rates, risks, and consequences for violence

Developmental considerations in assessing violence

Papers focusing on conceptual or definitional issues

Challenges and approaches for obtaining accurate disclosure of violence & victimization

Diagnostic accuracy (such as estimates of sensitivity and specificity)

Ethical issues in violence measurement

Reviews of the state of violence measurement within or across sub-disciplines

Manuscripts can be submitted through the journal's submission portal. Please note in your cover letter that you are submitting for the special issue. Deadline for submitting manuscripts is August 25, 2013. Inquiries regarding topic or scope for the special issue or for other manuscripts can be sent to John Grych or Sherry Hamby.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies

In recent years, the biomedical field has been one of the most dynamic and  innovative sectors in scientific research. Developments in molecular  biology, genetics and nanotechnologies applied to this field have opened up innovative research perspectives, generating different fields of  experimentation and application, posing original ethical and moral issues.
All this has made possible new diagnostic and visualization technologies, coupled with innovative therapies. The prospect of personalized medicine  has favored translational research, making it a driving force, creating  unprecedented alliances between scientists, doctors, pharmaceutical  industries and patients. Fascinating and complex transformations take place  in laboratories, a crucial setting for activities and practices in the  multi-faceted territory of biomedical research.

Laboratories have become  nodes of articulated networks, making it no longer possible to consider  them as single entities. In light of these changes, a wide range of actors – researchers, scientific instruments, data-bases, experts in  bio-informatics and bio-statistics, pharmaceutical companies, clinicians, drugs, patients, cells, ethical and regulatory issues – have become  involved.

This special issue calls for original theoretical and empirical contributions highlighting the following themes:

- relationships between basic and biomedical research;

- biomedical controversies;

- development of scientific tools, infrastructures and big-data research;

- visualization technologies and their implications in and out of the laboratory;

- new links between pharmacological trials, scientists, doctors and patients and their social implications;

- plurality of ethics and biomedicine.

We expect to receive contributions on the topics above and other possible interrelated dimensions.

Deadline for abstract submissions: August 25th, 2013.

Abstracts (in English) with a maximum length of 1000 words should be sent as email attachments to redazione@tecnoscienza.net and carbon copied to the guest editors. Notification of acceptance will be communicated by September  5th 2013.
Deadline for full submissions: November 20th, 2013.  Submissions (in English with a maximum length of 8000 words, including notes and references) can be made via the Journal’s submission system at  http://www.tecnoscienza.net

http://tecnoscienza.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0577b27d75f836ebb0fe6d40a&id=518b9bc044&e=80634616ce   and  an electronic copy of the article should be sent to  redazione@tecnoscienza.net.

The papers will be subject to a double blind  peer review process. We expect to publish the special issue in June 2014.

For further information about the special issue, contact the guest editors  at federico.neresini@unipd.it or assunta.viteritti@uniroma1.it assu.viteritti@gmail.com

For further information about the Journal please visit the Journal’s web  site at http://www.tecnoscienza.net

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association: Ethics

The Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) announces a special issue on ethics to be guest edited by Deborah Halsted, Senior Associate Director, Operations of Texas Medical Center Library.  The articles in this issue will consist of full length papers, systematic reviews, case studies or research reports and/or brief communications. For guidelines and descriptions of the types of  articles including full-length papers, brief communications and case studies, please see the Information for Authors. http://www.mlanet.org/publications/jmla/jmlainfo.html

Be advised, that these will be research papers, not opinion pieces.

Some suggested topics include (but this is not an exhaustive list):

Research

Personnel (HR)

Collection Development

Scholarly Communication

Publishing

Licensing

Copyright

Retractions

Consumer Health

If you are interested, please contact Deborah Halsted by June 30 with your proposed topic. If selected for consideration, authors will be required to submit a 200 word abstract to  by August 30, 2013.  Completed manuscripts should be submitted by February 1, 2014 and will go through the regular peer review process.  The publication date for this issue is October 2014.

Call for Papers: Ethical Issues in Education and Training

Submission Deadline: October 1, 2013

The editorial team for Training and Education in Professional Psychology is assembling a package of articles on ethical issues in education and training.

We are interested in articles that address, but are not limited to

ethical issues in individual and group supervision

ethics as a competency necessary in the education and training of psychologists

best practices and evidence based approaches to teaching and training ethics

developmental approaches to teaching and training ethics

ethical challenges in telehealth and telesupervision

teaching/training students in ethical issues related to primary care settings/interprofessional work

training students to work with ethical issues inherent in small communities

outcomes related to ethics in education and training

We are seeking manuscripts of approximately 20–30 pages, including references (the length of longer papers must be justified).

Submissions must be original and not previously published. Each manuscript should be prepared in accordance with Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition (2010).

All submissions will be peer reviewed, and, therefore, acceptance is not guaranteed. Revisions are usually required.

Deadline for submissions to be considered in this package is October 1, 2013.

The package editors will be Jenny Cornish and Michael Roberts. Please contact Dr. Cornish and Dr. Roberts if you intend to submit a manuscript.

Authors should submit articles through the Manuscript Submission Portal.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Philosophy, Science, and Law: Responsible Conduct of Research

Within the context of a shifting research environment, the Journal of Philosophy, Science, and Law is inviting authors to submit new manuscripts that address the responsible conduct of research (RCR). Scientific research is conducted in a significantly different environment than it was 20 – or even 10 – years ago. Among the most notable changes are: new technologies that both yield highly novel results and decrease the transparency of the methods used; the increased pressure on academic researchers to secure intellectual property rights to their research; and interdisciplinary research efforts that are conducted collaboratively across the globe. These changes raise new challenges and questions about modern research practices. 

Topics suitable for this Call for Papers include but are not limited to:

• How technology contributes to the occurrence, or detection, of research misconduct.

• Whether the incidence of falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism or other problematic research practices is increasing.

• Whether contemporary peer review processes are adequate for assessing journal submissions or whether alternative methods should be used (e.g., open peer review).

• How RCR policies from federal agencies, including those ones from NSF and NIH, are affecting research practices.

• How federal regulations, including those from the U.S. Public Health Service relating to fCOI, are affecting research communities.

• Whether recent community RCR guidelines, such as the Singapore Statement, adequately address the challenges emerging from a highly interdisciplinary and international research environment.

Manuscripts submitted for inclusion in this special issue must be original work and should not be under consideration with any other journal. The word count for submitted manuscripts, including references and notes, should not exceed 5000 words.  Manuscripts should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words.  Authors should adhere as closely as possible to the Journal’s publication guidelines:  http://www.miami.edu/ethics/jpsl/submission.html. Authors should submit their manuscripts and abstracts via email attachments no later than August 1, 2013 to Dr. Levi Wood: LBWOOD(at)PARTNERS(dot)ORG. The email subject line should read JPSL-RCR. Accepted manuscripts will be published online in December 2013/January 2014.

Call for Papers for a Special Content Section of Health Policy and Technology: Adopting Health Technology

Health Policy and Technology is the official journal of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, and is a cross-disciplinary journal focusing on health policy and the role of technology in health environments. The journal publishes relevant, timely and accessible papers and commentaries supporting policy makers, health professionals, health technology providers, patient groups and academia interested in this area where health, policy and technology converge.

Deadline for submissions 15th August.

National and international perspectives welcome on the following and other topics relevant to adoption of health technology:

-- case studies on adoption of health technology

-- establishing priorities

-- perspectives of patient charities

-- perspectives of health professionals

-- science and business partnerships

-- role of the regulators

-- involving policy makers

-- ethical dimensions

-- avoiding discrimination in health provision

For more information regarding author guidelines and online submission, visit the journal’s homepage: www.healthpolicyandtechnology.com.

All manuscripts can be submitted electronically using our online submission system: http://ees.elsevier.com/hlpt.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics: Just Food: Bioethics, Gender, and the Ethics of Eating

Vol 8, No. 2: Just Food: Bioethics, gender, and the ethics of eating

The deadline for submission for this issue is April 1, 2014.

Editor: Mary C. Rawlinson

Western ethics rarely makes eating a main theme. Food belongs to the often invisible domain of women’s labor. While obesity, malnourishment, and lack of access to clean water are regularly cited as global factors in mortality and morbidity, bioethics, even feminist bioethics, gives little attention to culinary practices, water rights, or agricultural policy or to their effects on the status of women and the health of communities.

What and how we eat determines not only our health, but also our relation to other animals, the forms of social life, the gender division of labor, and the integrity of the environment. If hunger is the hallmark of poverty, obesity and obesity-related diseases are ironically afflicting the poor at alarming rates. Hunger also attends war, violence, and catastrophic environmental events; thus, thinking ethically about food engages issues of war and peace, as well as calling into question the global dependence on fossil fuels. Food can reflect social inequity or economic independence and social justice. It can preserve cultural integrity or yield to the homogenizing force of global capital. Food encompasses the full range of issues arising at the intersection of health and justice.

The Editorial Office of IJFAB invites submissions for Just Food: bioethics, gender, and the ethics of eating, vol. 8.2. Essays may investigate any aspect of the ethics of eating, particularly as it relates to health and gender.

Women are disproportionately responsible for food around the world, yet they are globally underrepresented in the ownership of property or decisions about land use or in determining environmental or food policy. As the spike in obesity among women and children in “low-income” countries under the shift to global food indicates, women, like other vulnerable and underrepresented populations, are disproportionately affected by the globalization of food, as well as by environmental degradation and climate change.

Research suggests, however, that women are also “key drivers of change,” necessary to improving food production and consumption, as well as environmental health in any community. “If you pull women out, there will be no sustainable development.” (Report of Regional Implementation Meeting for Asia and Pacific Rim, Jakarta, 2007.)

IJFAB 8.2 will investigate the bioethical problems that result from the industrialization and globalization of agriculture, as well as the role of feminist bioethics in reimaging agriculture and our culinary practices to be more life-sustaining and to better promote justice, community health, and agency for each and all. Only very recently have large populations been able to eat without any knowledge of how their food is produced. This issue explores the question of our responsibility for what and how we eat, as well as global responsibilities for hunger and diet-related disease.

Possible areas of research include:

hunger and poverty
hunger and violence
consumption and health
immobility, obesity, and agency
animal rights
environmental ethics
ethics of land and water policies
agricultural policy and economic independence
scale in farming
food security
sustainability
local vs. global food
geopolitics of food
food as commodity
biotechnology
food and labor
eating and culture
the aesthetics of food
food and community.

All papers must be submitted in IJFAB style. Authors who plan to submit are encouraged to contact the Editor ahead of time.

IJFAB also welcomes proposals for future special issues.

Instructions for authors are available at www.ijfab.org. Papers should be submitted in Microsoft Word, as email attachments to IJFAB@sunysb.edu.

Call for Papers for a Special Symosium of Reason Papers: The Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics of Emergencies

Fall 2014 Symposium: The Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics of Emergencies

The Editors of Reason Papers are soliciting submissions of manuscripts for a special symposium on emergencies (due by March 1, 2014). Send submissions to reasonpapers@gmail.com. Inquiries welcome.

Submissions may grapple with any of a wide variety of issues related to emergencies (not an exhaustive list): How is “emergency” to be defined? How do we know when we enter/exit an emergency? How should moral and legal norms be formulated so as to take stock of emergencies–if they should? Are moral norms defeasible in the face of emergencies, or specially contextualized so as to preserve their indefeasibility? Who has special authority for decision-making in an emergency? How best to guard against abuses of power or corruptions of norms in emergency situations?

We’re looking for submissions across the broadest spectrum of relevant disciplines–philosophy, political science, legal studies, history, sociology, anthropology, medicine, criminology/police studies, strategic/military studies, etc.

Reason Papers is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal appearing annually each fall. It features book reviews and review essays along with full-length articles, symposia, and discussion notes of previously published articles. All manuscripts submitted for consideration as Articles are subject to a blind peer-review process (see Submissions page for instructions), and all contributions are subject to internal editorial review. Not limited to philosophy, we publish work by economists, legal scholars, political scientists, historians, and others, provided the content is normative in the philosophical sense. In addition to articles on moral, social/political, and legal philosophy, we also run essays on epistemology, aesthetics, art history, and classics.