History of Medicine calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers: Health, Culture and Society

With the second issue of Health, Culture and Society just released, the international editorial team are inviting contributions for the third issue entitled Health and Identity.

Contributions are encouraged which deal with human rights; equity; social inclusion strategies as well as historical studies - all of course falling within the remit of health and its paradigm.

HCS, boasts an international readership and broad geographic coverage, therefore papers are invited from all continents and economies, which can help us learn as to how, health, culture and society are deeply integrated realities, and important factors to initiatives within health strategy and research.

All are warmly invited to register as readers and subscribers of the journal. Those wishing to submit research for publication, should follow the author guidelines in the 'About' section (Home > About the Journal > Submissions).

HCS adheres to a strictly blind peer review process.

The deadline for submissions is September 10th 2012.

Owing to the volume of submissions HCS receives, possible contributors are encouraged to contact the senior editor with any enquiries they may have regarding their submission.

Email: d.reggio@unochapeco.edu.br

Visit the website at http://hcs.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/hcs/index

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies: Disability and Colonialism: (Dis)encounters and Anxious Intersectionalities

Guest Editors: Shaun Grech (Manchester Metropolitan University) &
Karen Soldatic (University of New South Wales)

We are pleased to announce that we will be guest editing a special edition entitled Disability and Colonialism: (dis)encounters and anxious intersectionalities on behalf of the established refereed journal Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

The aim of this special issue is to position disability within the colonial (the real and imagined), through which to explore a range of (often anxious) intersectionalities as disability is theorised, constructed, and lived as a post/neocolonial condition. While postcolonial theory and associated fields (e.g. critical theory, cultural studies etc.) have engaged with race, gender and ethnicity in the exploration of themes of identity, representation, space, historicity and the neocolonial, they have almost wholly bypassed disabled people- paradoxically limited to the subjectification of the able-bodied, or rather disembodying colonialism Westerncentric fields of study such as disability studies often remain detached from the global South, the histories, contexts and cultures of these specific geopolitical spaces, and how disability is ontologically constructed and lived through a history replete with signifiers of power and empire and that frame the global. While some have adopted colonialism as a metaphor for the experience of disability (see for example Shakespeare, 2000), of colonized bodies by the medical profession, the colonial encounter per se, its creation of and implications for the disabled subject, remains inadequately theorised. In turn, disability is persistently removed from history and any contemplation of the post or neocolonial and efforts (discursive or material) at decolonizing these spaces and those within.

The special issue aims to transcend disciplinary, epistemological, methodological, spatial and historical boundaries. Engaging
indigenous, post/neocolonial, disability studies, critical theory, psychology, Latin American Cultural Studies, and a range of other
perspectives and literatures, and prioritising voices from the global South, we invite authors to engage in critical debate around
colonialism to explore a range of thematic concerns (not exclusively):

• Colonial representations and the construction of the disabled body and mind
• The violence and disablism of colonialism
• Intersections of race, ethnicity, culture, gender and disability
• Empire and the domestication of bodies: globalisation, economics and beyond
• Disabled identities, metaphors and language, and their roles in subjugation
• From the colonial to the post/neocolonial: disability and contemporary lineages of imperialism
• Social identities and visions of disability
• Colonial medicalisation: identifying, labelling and ‘treating’ the disabled body
• The Christianising mission, biblical renditions and the disabled subject
• Decolonizing epistemologies, practices and lives: renegotiating power and contemplating global justice

We encourage authors to engage work on Southern theory and movements and approaches prioritising and promoting Southern epistemologies and counter-hegemonic knowledges emerging from struggles for justice.

Those wishing to submit an article, please email your full manuscript to both Shaun Grech (S.Grech@mmu.ac.uk) and Karen Soldatic (ajks123@bigpond.com). Please insert ‘Submission for Disability and Colonialism Special Issue’ in the subject line. Manuscripts will be sent anonymously for double peer review, and comments and recommendations relayed to authors through the editors.

Articles should not exceed 8,000 words in length, and include a 300 word abstract. The journal style guide is available here: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1369-801X&linktype=44

Manuscripts should be submitted by no later than: 1st January 2013.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation: What Sorts of People Should There Be?

Guest Editor

Gregor Wolbring, Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies, Dept. of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary

Throughout history, people with non-normative abilities have been judged. Sometimes this judgment led to positive consequences, however for the most part these non-normative abilities were judged negatively and the carriers of such non-normative abilities experienced disabling treatment. This very judgment (ableism) and its disabling consequences is one of the main areas of scholarly work within the realm of disability studies. Eugenics, the practice of finding ways to better heritable abilities of humans, is one dynamic that influences the judgment of people’s abilities and the disabling consequences and vice versa.

What sorts of people should there be is a question that has been asked and answered in different ways throughout human history, is still a question asked and answered today and will be with us also for some time in the future.

Advances in science and technology will allow new judgments and actions linked to the sentiment around the question of what sorts of people there should be.

In partnership with the SSHRC-CURA-funded project “Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada” (eugenicsarchive.ca), the Editors of IJDCR would like to devote a special issue on this topic.

We invite potential contributors, regardless of fields of study (discipline), to submit 250-word abstracts that articulate the conceptual arguments and knowledge base to be covered in a critical analysis on various aspects from history to future of “What sorts of people should there be”.

Please submit abstracts to the Guest Editor via e-mail at gwolbrin[at]ucalgary.ca by 15 July, 2012

From selected abstracts, we will request full articles of 3000-5000 words (excluding figures and tables) of original research and scholarship on a range of topics to be submitted to the editor by 15 October 2012. Note that an invitation to submit an article does not guarantee its publication.

Every submitted article will be subject to blind peer review and recommendations arising.

As to possible areas linked to the theme the below is a sample list of possible topics

What sorts of people should be born
What sorts of people should live
What sorts of people should be citizens
What sorts of people should compete
What sorts of people….

We invite authors to investigate the history, contemporary use and potential future exhibition of the relationships between the core question “What sorts of people should there be” and such issues as:

disabled people and what it means to be ‘disabled’,
the community around them
practitioners, consumers and researchers linked to the disability discourse
community rehabilitation and the rehabilitation field in general
inclusive education and the education of disabled people in general
the future of education
employability of disabled people
citizenship of disabled people
global citizenship
body image of disabled people
medical and social health policies and their impact on disabled people
health care for disabled people
elderly people, youthism and ageism
disabled people in low income countries
laws and international conventions related to disabled people such as the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
the concept of personhood
concept of health and health care
the measure of disability adjusted life years and other measurements used to guide health care dollar allocation
quality of life assessment
history
future
science and technology governance
science and technology assessment
ethics
enhancement

For more information about the International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation (IJDCR) please go to http://www.ijdcr.ca.

International Journal of Disability, Community & Rehabilitation

www.ijdcr.ca

Call for Papers: A Special Issue of Frontiers on Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice

Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies invites submissions for a special issue on reproductive technologies and reproductive justice. In commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the legacies of that decision, we welcome scholarly and creative works that analyze the contested terrains of reproduction in local, national, or transnational contexts. We are especially interested in the intersections between varied technologies to regulate, manage, or facilitate reproduction (e.g. abortion, contraception, surrogacy, population control, reproductive health, adoption), and claims for reproductive justice. We encourage submissions that conceptualize reproductive issues in broad terms, and which further the journal’s commitment to scholarship on women of color, third world and transnational women’s movements, and gender and race.

An inter- and multidisciplinary journal, Frontiers welcomes submissions of creative works such as artwork, fiction, and poetry, as well as scholarly papers. Works must be original, and not published or under consideration for publication elsewhere. For submission guidelines, please consult the websites sponsored by the University of Nebraska Press and Arizona State University, where Frontiers is currently housed:

http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Frontiers,673226.aspx
http://www.asu.edu/clas/asuhistory2/frontiers/

All special issue submissions and questions should be directed to frontiers@osu.edu. The guest editor for this special issue, Mytheli Sreenivas, and the new-editors of Frontiers, Guisela Latorre and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu also can be reached at the following address:

Editors of Frontiers
Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Ohio State University
286 University Hall
230 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210

Submission Date for Special Issue: June 15, 2012

All other submissions, not related to the Special Issue, should be directed to Arizona State University before May 11, 2012. After May 12, 2012, all submissions should be sent to Ohio State University.

American Physiological Society Orr E. Reynolds Award

Award: $500 and reimbursement of expenses up to $1,500
Deadline: December 1
Contact: Executive Office

The Orr E. Reynolds Award, named for the second Executive Secretary-Treasurer, is presented for the best historical article submitted by a member of the Society. Articles may deal with any aspect of the history of physiology, including the development of physiological ideas and their application, instrumentation, individual and collective biography, departmental and institutional history, history of societies including APS, and physiology in its public context. Manuscripts should represent original research and be adequately documented. Articles published in journals or books of the Society during the prior calendar year are also eligible for the award upon request by the author.

The recipient receives $500 and reimbursement of expenses, up to $1,500, incurred while attending the Experimental Biology meeting. The article may be published in one of the Society journals after appropriate peer review. Members may receive the award only once, and those members who have advanced degrees in the history of science or medicine are not eligible.

Call for Papers: The Male Body in Medicine and Literature

Following the success of the recent collection The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (LUP 2011) Liverpool University Press have commissioned a companion volume entitled The Male Body in Medicine and Literature. This new collection will provide interdisciplinary essays that will explore the complex intersections between literature and the medical treatment of the male body. We wish to consider the wider cultural ramifications of the representation of the male body, health, sickness, masculinity and ‘manhood’ in order to further our understanding of gender studies, gender politics, science, medicine and literature.

The purpose of this book will be to survey the complex relations between literature and the medical treatment and representation of the male body from 1600 to the present day and we are seeking essays which offer a range of methodologies that will be interdisciplinary in their discussion of medicine of the male body, the cultural representation of male corporeality in sickness and in health, and the wider cultural ramifications of male health, its intersections with masculinity and manhood. We expect the essays to draw on a wide range of topics that have been informed by cross-pollinating disciplines including literature, history of medicine, gender studies and gay fiction. This collection will offer a major new analysis of the medical treatment and cultural representations of the healthy and sick male body from the early modern period to the present. This will be one of the first single-volume books to concentrate on the links between literature and medicine in their shared dedication to understanding the male body. The healthy male body has a complex relationship with ideas of masculinity, manhood and male power; plus, the health and strength of the male body is linked to ideas of nation at times of war and at times of peace; this book will seek to address these issues and more.

Essays might cover, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Male hysteria
Male consumptives
HIV/AIDS
War, conflict and the male body
Virility, fertility and impotence
Male nursing
The working class male body and medical experimentation
Urology
Disability
Mental health and the male body
Sexually transmitted diseases and the male body

Please submit articles for consideration between 5000 – 7000 words to Greta Depledge (depledgeg@aol.com) and Andrew Mangham (a.s.mangham@reading.ac.uk) by 1st December 2012.

Contributors should follow LUP’s house style, details of which can be found on their website:
http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/howtopublish.asp

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries: Process Safety Pioneers

Submission Deadline: December 31, 2012

Process safety has come a long way since the beginning of chemical industrial activities. Before the 1960s, hazards and risks – and accidents – were perceived to go hand-in-hand with industrial progress. From the 1960s onwards, an evolution in the technology for – and in the attitude to – safely operating process plants has taken place. Sometimes it was more like a revolution, but far more often the evolution progressed step-by-step. All around the world, a number of “pioneers” gave direction to these process safety advancements, often working in the silence of their offices or laboratories. However, these pioneers have clearly saved large numbers of men and women from injury and death. To honour these process safety pioneers, a Special Issue of the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries is being planned.

Papers are invited on any topic related to this Special Issue subject, that is process safety pioneers and pioneering. Papers can for example be submitted on the following subjects:

Anatomy of the progress of process safety
Study on a specific (very important) topic initiated by a process safety pioneer
Past, present and future of process safety made possible by process safety pioneer(s)
Novel approaches to process accident prediction and prevention
and other related topics

Our aim is to honour those pioneers that paved the way for true safety in the process industries, and that substantially contributed with academic and/or professional studies to the process safety research field. Our goal is also to help the process safety community and to aid organizations from the process industries to remember pioneers’ research findings, in order to further avoid incidents due to unawareness and/or inadequate learning.

Authors are encouraged to include a specific Process Safety Pioneer Acknowledgement section in which a short biography of the process safety pioneer is given, his/her most relevant/important publications are mentioned, and the relevance to the current paper is explained. The authors are free to fill up this Acknowledgement section with the information that they deem interesting, up to maximum 400 words.

Manuscripts must be submitted by no later than December 31, 2012 using the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) available at http://ees.elsevier.com/jlp/. Be sure to select the appropriate choices from the drop-down menus for article type and requested editor. Also note the journal requirements for length and style (in particular the requirements for referencing) available on the Authors’ Instructions page.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed in accordance with normal journal practice. It is our intention to have the submission, review and revision process completed by May 31, 2013. Depending on the response to this call for papers, it may not be possible to publish all submitted papers in the special issue. Should this happen, the journal editorial team will select the papers to appear on the special issue, with the remaining papers being considered for a regular issue of the journal.

All queries should be addressed to either prof. Valerio Cozzani (valerio.cozzani@unibo.it) for papers on Process safety pioneers from Europe or Asia, or to prof. Faisal Khan (fikhan@mun.ca) for papers on Process Safety Pioneers from the Americas or Oceania, who are the Guest Editors for this Special Issue on Process Safety Pioneers. Genserik Reniers (genserik.reniers@ua.ac.be) and Paul Amyotte (paul.amyotte@dal.ca) serve as regular editors for this Special Issue.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing: Pharmaceutical Direct-to-Consumer Advertising: Past, Present, and Future

Guest Editors: Dr Avinandan Mukherjee, Montclair State University, USA
Dr Yam B. Limbu, Montclair State University, USA

Pharmaceutical Direct-to-Consumer Advertising (DTCA) includes different types of promotional efforts employed by pharmaceutical companies to provide prescription drug information to the general public through consumer-oriented media. It is allowed currently only in the USA and New Zealand. In the past decade, pharmaceutical companies have been involved in intense direct-to-consumer advertising and promotion of prescription drugs. Spending on DTCA of prescription drugs has been accelerating. It grew from $2.5 billion in 2000 to $3.3 billion in 2003, $4.2 billion in 2005, and $4.5 billion in 2009. There was a 330 per cent increase in DTCA spending between 1996 and 2005. As a result, the average American television viewer spent about 16 hours annually watching prescription drug advertisements; that was far more time than they spent with their family physicians.

The environment in which the DTCA of prescription drugs operates is unique in two ways:

1 While consumers are targeted by DTC advertisers, only physicians have the right to prescribe the advertised drug; and

2 Considering the risks associated with prescription drugs, regulatory bodies and consumer protection agencies are more involved in approving and monitoring all DTCA communications.

Consumer segments based on a variety of characteristics, e.g. demographics and psychographics, such as health beliefs and health orientations, respond differently to various dimensions of DTCA communication, such as information, comprehension, trust and valence.

While DTCA has been credited for improvements in pharmaceutical sales growth, patient education, and improved health outcomes, it has been criticized for its role in drug over-utilization, public health concerns, higher drug costs, and physician dissonance. These issues become more paramount in the wake of the high involvement nature of prescription drugs, the average consumer's lack of scientific knowledge, and their propensity to self-diagnose and ask physicians for specific medications. DTCA is thus an extremely complex and yet a very important topic that deserves researchers' sincere attention.

It has been an issue of intense public policy attention and debate since the early years of its existence. Unfortunately, it is one of the most understudied areas in pharmaceutical and healthcare marketing. Empirical research on the effect of DTCA is especially scarce. Much of the extant research on DTCA is exploratory in nature, mostly based on literature reviews and using content analysis as the methodology. Comprehensive and empirically validated models of consumer responses to DTCA are still rare in the literature and little is known about its effects on the attitudes and behaviour of concerned parties such as consumers,  physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers.

Thus, the main goal of this IJPHM special issue is to address these research gaps. Authors are invited to submit empirical or conceptual papers that may have substantial practical and/or theoretical implications for various aspects of DTCA.

Topics for the special issue

Although manuscripts on any topic related to DTCA are welcome, papers on the following topics are highly encouraged:

-- Stakeholders' (e.g., consumers, physicians, nurses, salesforce) responses/attitudes to DTCA

-- Patient-physician interactions, communication, and relationships

-- Effect of DTCA on physician prescription behaviour

-- Information search from sources other than physicians as a result of DTCA (e.g., online search)

-- Other behavioral intentions (e.g., prescription request, intent to recommend, WOM)

-- Content of DTC advertisements (e.g., textual, pictorial)

-- Effect of DTCA expenditure on financial performance (e.g., price/sales/market share/ROI/shareholders' value)

-- Trend analysis of DTCA expenditures by product category and consumer segments

-- Role of internet and technology on DTCA (e.g., DTC web sites, blogs, social media etc--)

-- Risk disclosure and perceived risk

-- DTC claims or message credibility/source or media credibility/ perceived believability

-- Role of different types of message appeal, persuasion

-- Situation and context effects

-- Role of affect, cognition, and emotion

-- Role of different types of involvement, motivation, and individual differences

-- Role of consumer knowledge/expertise/familiarity

-- Consumer recall and memory

-- DTCA exposure, attention, and interpretation

-- Consumer learning, awareness, and literacy

-- Impact on drug and therapy compliance, non-compliance, and adherence

-- Effectiveness of different DTCA information sources (e.g., print, TV, online, radio, outdoor, direct mail)

-- Role of demographics on DTCA perceptions

-- Historical evolution and growth of DTCA

-- Ethical issues relating to DTCA

-- Government policy, laws, and regulations

-- Pharmaceutical industry's perspectives on impact of DTCA

-- Attitudes towards and likely adoption of DTCA in countries other than the USA and NZ

-- Macro impact of DTCA (e--g-- impact on economy, healthcare sector, healthy living, patient care)

-- Future of DTCA

Research methods

Quantitative and qualitative studies, including marketing and consumer behaviour models, experiments, correlational studies, causal studies, comparative studies, descriptive studies, literature reviews, meta-analysis, case studies, viewpoint articles, pedagogical innovations, and book reviews are all welcome. Papers can adopt a historical, current or future perspective.

Submission process

Manuscripts should be submitted no later than 30 June 2012. The special issue is expected to be published in early 2013. All manuscripts will be subjected to double-blind peer review and should follow the general guidelines for authors of the International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing, which can be found at:
www.emeraldinsight.com/ijphm.htm

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to IJPHM editorial e-mail at: editor-ijphc@mail.montclair.edu

Please contact the Guest Editors of this special issue at the following e-mail addresses, if you have any questions:

Dr Avinandan Mukherjee
E-mail: mukherjeeav@mail.montclair.edu

and

Dr Yam Limbu
E-mail: limbuy@mail.montclair.edu

Call for Academic Medicine Last Page Submissions

Can you explain in a single page an issue or phenomenon important to those who work at medical schools and teaching hospitals?

Academic Medicine seeks original submissions for its AM Last Page feature. This feature is designed to make the journal’s content more accessible to more people by promoting a general understanding of issues important to the academic medicine community. A Last Page tells a story, visually and succinctly, through tables, graphs, images, and/or other presentations of  concepts, trends, policies, programs, persons, or events. A Last Page may cover any topic related to Academic Medicine’s focus areas: education and training issues, health and science policy, research practice, institutional issues, or clinical practice in academic settings.

An AM Last Page should not be a condensed poster presentation or a promotional piece.

Although an AM Last Page may be related to an article published in the journal, the Last Page should not be a figure or table that belongs in the article.

Examples of published Last Pages include:

• The Patient-Centered Medical Home
• Generalizability in Medical Education Research
• The Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm D) Degree
• Understanding Title VII
• Sir William Osler’s Major Contributions to Medical Education

AM Last Page is an ongoing feature of the journal with no deadline and may be submitted at any time.

E. Thayer Gaston Writing Competition

(*This scholarship is not open to Graduate students)

Sponsored by the American Music Therapy Association in cooperation with the Student Affairs Advisory Board. Papers on any topic relevant to the music therapy profession using the philosophical, historical, descriptive, or experimental mode of research are invited.

Award: A cash award of $500 to the winner(s) and an opportunity to have the paper reviewed for possible publication in the Journal of Music Therapy.

Requirements: Papers may be individually or jointly authored. Only one paper per entrant. Papers may be any length up to 3,000 words and shall have a title page indicating the author's name, academic institution, and academic advisor's name. No identifying information found on the title page is to be found on any page of the text. Papers are to be submitted in the format approved by the American Psychological Association. Papers must be previously unpublished.

Selection Procedure: Judging will be done on the basis of originality, organization, clarity of writing, relevance of content to the music therapy profession, literature documentation and adherence to the APA style. In the event that the criteria is not met or the judges feel that no paper is worthy, the award will not be presented. Judging will be done by a clinician, an academician, and a non-music therapist in a related field.

Application Deadline: All entries must be received by 6:00 pm EST June 29, 2012 without exception.

Student Scholarship Eligibility
All undergraduate, undergraduate equivalency students and graduate students enrolled in a college or university program in music therapy approved by the American Music Therapy Association. All interns in clinical training are considered eligible through their parent academic institution. Student status will be verified through that institution prior to awarding the prize. Applicants must be current Student Members of AMTA in the year in which they apply AND the year in which it is granted.

Complete the Scholarship Application form (and Nomination form if required). This must be submitted with your application. Only complete applications that follow the application guidelines and format will be considered.

Any submitted narrative must be double-spaced, 1-inch margins, in 12-point font. Your narrative must be written for blind review, without specific reference to your name or place of employment.

All applications must be submitted electronically to the AMTA National Office at: scholarships@musictherapy.org

Application must be submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word document. Additional materials – if required – must be submitted as Microsoft Word documents. (Fultz Award applicants may submit .pdf attachments as specified within the applicaiton.)

In your email, please include the name of the scholarship for which you are applying and the application year in the subject line.

Applicants will receive an email confirming the receipt of their application.