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Call for Articles: On the Edge--the Official Newsletter of the International Association of Forensic Nurses

IAFN Mission Statement

The mission of the IAFN is to provide leadership in forensic nursing practice by developing and disseminating information internationally about forensic nursing science.

Be an Author!

We welcome your article submissions to On the Edge. Consider it one of our primary avenues for networking and expanding the focus of forensic nursing practice and development. Please share your forensic nursing expertise with interested readers and colleagues around the world.

If you are a first time author or are simply not attuned to writing do not let this be a deterrent from sharing your expertise. We make every attempt to ensure your article reaches the appropriate audience and provide support and assistance whenever possible. See our Author Guidelines. When you send in an article, whether it is a case study, a research study, regional news or anything else, we want to be sure you are appropriately recognized. To this end, please include your name, credentials, type of work place, city and state along with three or four lines about yourself, as we include a brief bio at the end of every article .

Your contact information should include your name, address, and telephone and fax numbers, email address. Please be certain the information is accurate, as we may need to contact you for additional questions or clarification on your submission and its publication.

Guidelines and Style

The newsletter follows the style guidelines of the Psychological Association Publication Manual, 4th Edition. For assistance or additional questions, please contact the managing editor.

Article Submission Deadlines:

Issue Number Submission Deadline Publication Date

Volume 18 Issue 2 June 1st June 30th
Volume 18 Issue 3 September 1st September 30th
Volume 18 Issue 4 December 1st December 31st

Content

If you would like to discuss content or ideas, or if you already have an article prepared, please contact:

Janean Fossum, BSN, RN, CDDN
IAFN On The Edge Managing Editor
Nurse Consultant-Forensic Nurse
Certified Developmental Disabilities Nurse
P.O. Box 11053
Eugene, Oregon 97440
jfossum@epud.net

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Developing World Bioethics: Ethics and Treatment Access Activism: Courts, Health Policy and Health Economics

Guest Editors: Maurice Cassier, Marilena Correa

Closing date for submissions: 15 September 2012

This Special Issue of Developing World Bioethics will focus on the emergence of ethical analyses pertaining to impoverished patients’ access to medical care and to medicines. The main focus of this issue will be on the fight against HIV/AIDS and the “neglected” diseases of the last two decades. New ethical understandings have been developed in different contexts and expressed in governmental health policies, and through tribunals, public discussion forums, patients association claims, humanitarian organizations and funds, research programs, governmental health departments, international health organizations, etc. In each case, what is at stake are norms such as equity, as well as equality and justice, which provide an important foundation for individual and collective forms of activism as well as governmental actions. The Special Issue of Developing World Bioethics aims at bringing about a critical discussion of the variegated ethical arguments for improving access to treatment and medicines, which have been put forward by different social actors.

The editors welcome early discussion of brief proposals and/or abstracts by email. Papers can be sent to Maurice Cassier and Marilena Correa.

Upon submission authors should include full contact details and a few lines of autobiographical information in a separate electronic file. We discourage papers of more than 5000 words.

For further submission requirements, format and referencing style, refer to the Author Guidelines http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291471-8847/homepage/ForAuthors.html

Manuscripts should be submitted to Developing World Bioethics online at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dwb.
Please ensure that you select manuscript type ‘Special Issue’.

Maurice Cassier is a sociologist and economist
Senior researcher at CNRS ; directeur d´etudes EHESS.
CERMES
Site CNRS, 7, rue Guy Môquet.
VILLEJUIF Cedex 94801.
FRANCE

Marilena Corrêa MD, PhD in sociology of health
Full Professor at the Institute of Social Medecine of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IMS-UERJ)
Instituto de Medicina Social
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Rua São Francisco Xavier 524, 7 andar, bloco D
Rio de Janeiro RJ zip code 20559.990
BRAZIL

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.

Call for Papers for a Symposium Issue on Disability Discrimination of the Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal

The Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal is sponsoring a symposium issue dedicated to disability discrimination and the law. Although all papers within this topical area will be considered, papers with particular emphasis on the ADA Amendments will be given special consideration. The symposium issue is scheduled for publication as the first issue of 2013. The symposium editor is Professor Ramona L. Paetzold of Texas A & M University. Please submit all manuscripts to her no later than Friday, August 24, for consideration in the symposium issue. Papers should be submitted in Word via email attachment to Prof. Paetzold. Please direct all questions to Prof. Paetzold as well.

Call for Papers on Criminalizing Contagion

The BMJ Group journals Sexually Transmitted Infections (impact factor 3.029) and the Journal of Medical Ethics (impact factor 1.391), in conjunction with academics at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy (University of Manchester) and the Health Ethics and Law Network (University of Southampton), would like to publish a collection of articles on the criminalization of disease and sexually transmitted infections. We invite article contributions to be published as part of this themed collection.[1]

Themes

The use of criminal law to respond to infectious disease transmission has far-reaching implications for law, policy and practice. It presupposes co-operation between clinicians and criminal justice professionals, and that people who infect others can be effectively and fairly identified and brought to justice. There is a potentially difficult relationship between criminal justice and public health bodies, whose priorities do not necessarily coincide. We are interested in receiving papers of broad interest to an international readership of medical ethics scholars and practicing clinicians on any of the following topics:

Legislative and policy reform on disease and sexually transmitted infections
Health services and the police: privacy, state interference and human rights
Evidence and ethics: prosecuting ‘infectious’ personal behaviours
Clinicians and the courts: the role of health professionals and criminal justice
The aims of criminalization and public health: a compatibility problem?
International comparative studies on disease and criminalization: policy, practice and legal issues

Publication

1. Up to eight articles will published in a special section in an issue of Sexually Transmitted Infections in 2013.

2. Two articles will be published in a special section in an issue of Journal of Medical Ethics in 2013.

All articles will be blind peer reviewed according to each individual journal’s editorial policies. Final publication decisions will rest with the Editors in Chief: Professor Jackie Cassell (STI) and Professor Julian Savulescu (JME).

Important Dates

Please submit your article to either journal no later than December 14th 2012.

Submission Instructions

For Sexually Transmitted Infections:

Articles for STI should be a maximum of 2,500 words and submitted via the journal’s website: http://sti.bmj.com/. Please choose the special issue ‘Criminalizing Contagion’ during the submission process.

For Journal of Medical Ethics:

Articles for JME should be a maximum of 3,500 words, and submitted via the journal’s website: http://jme.bmj.com/. Please choose the special issue ‘Criminalizing Contagion’ during the submission process.

Further submission instructions are on the journals’ respective websites. If you would like to discuss any aspect of your submission, including possible topics and the journals involved, please contact the guest editors in the first instance: Dr David Gurnham (David.Gurnham@manchester.ac.uk), Dr Catherine Stanton (Catherine.Stanton@manchester.ac.uk) or Dr Hannah Quirk (Hannah.Quirk@manchester.ac.uk).

[1] Some of the contributors may also be invited to present their papers at one of three sessions of a proposed ESRC seminar series on the same topic, to be organised by the guest editors. If funding for the seminar series is awarded by the ESRC (in April 2012), they will take place in winter 2012/13 and summer 2013 (Southampton), and winter 2013/14 and summer 2014 (Manchester).

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Behavioral Sciences and the Law: Measuring and Interpreting the Predictive Validity of Violence Risk Assessment

Behavioral Sciences and the Law invites submissions for a forthcoming special issue on Measuring and Interpreting the Predictive Validity of Violence Risk Assessment.

The field of violence risk assessment has expanded rapidly over the past several decades, resulting in the development of a number of structured risk assessment tools. While there is a substantial literature on these instruments, few articles have been published to guide researchers in the measurement of their predictive validity and the interpretation of such findings. Further, a debate has begun to emerge concerning the predictive validity of risk assessment tools when applied to individual cases, and methodological advances may be needed in this area. To address these gaps, this special issue aims to provide a comprehensive and accessible resource for researchers, clinicians, and policymakers interested in the measurement of predictive validity or the use of such findings in clinical or legal practice.

We invite empirical and conceptual papers on the measurement of predictive validity as it relates to violence risk assessment. In addition, papers focusing on the implications of the measurement of predictive validity for public protection and individual liberty are also welcome, as are legal perspectives on these issues.

Papers should be no longer than 35 pages, inclusive of all tables, figures and references. References should be in American Psychological Association style. The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2012. Please send two electronic copies of the submission, one blinded for peer review, to John Petrila, J.D., LL.M., University of South Florida (petrila@usf.edu) or Jay P. Singh, Ph.D., University of South Florida (jaysingh@usf.edu), the guest editor for this issue.

Behavioral Sciences & the Law is a peer reviewed journal which provides current and comprehensive information from throughout the world on topics at the interface of the law and the behavioral sciences. Appealing to clinicians, academics, researchers, and policymakers, the journal balances theoretical, mental health, legal, and research writings to provide a broad perspective on pertinent psycho-legal topics. Most issues are devoted primarily to one special topic, often presented from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

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.