Survivorship calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Health & Productivity: Health and Productivity on the Workplace: the Relationship between Payer, Provider and Policy Maker in Oncology and Hematology

The deadline for submission is September 1, 2012.

The Journal of Health & Productivity (JHP) published by InPress Media Group for the Institute for Health and Productivity (IHPM) publishes current research and debate on all aspects of employee health and productivity.

The Journal of Health & Productivity aims to be the leading multidisciplinary publication offering peer-reviewed high quality original research and review articles with real relevance to payers, providers, policy makers and employers. The Journal provides corporate decision makers critically examined evidence applicable to their own issues concerning employee health and its impact on productivity.

Led by Editor-in-Chief William B. Bunn III, MD, JD, MPH, vice president of Health, Safety, Security and Productivity at Navistar International, the Journal’s Editorial Advisory Board of leading academic researchers and industry experts ensures that the publication is a must-read for researchers and practitioners concerned with the health and productivity of the workforce.

Reaching more than 12,000 senior executives via print and more than 9,500 electronically, the Journal of Health & Productivity heavily penetrates the market it serves, including corporate employee coalitions, business associations, health plans, providers and government agencies.

The Journal of Health & Productivity (JHP) publishes:

Peer-reviewed research articles on all aspects of employee health and productivity;
Practical advice via in-depth case studies, presenting simple practical solutions to employee health and productivity problems
Real-life implications for the individual, the employer, and public health systems in general
Policies, processes, systems and governance issues related to cost-effective health and productivity programs for employers.

Call for papers: Oncology & Hematology Special
The Journal of Health & Productivity (JHP) is planning to advance Journal of Health & Productivity further by publishing a special peer-reviewed issue addressing the topics relevant to the employer/payer and provider relationship in oncology and hematology.

Based on ongoing response from its members, the IHPM recognizes that there is an unfilled need for authoritative, peer reviewed, information about health and productivity related to oncology and hematology.

The Journal of Health & Productivity is seeking original work to facilitate understanding of the often divergent perspectives of payers, providers, policy makers and employers, presenting relevant – must-read – information that will enhance decisions made by providers, payers, and policy makers.

The Journal of Health & Productivity will be addressing unique oncology and hematology topics relevant to executives concerned about the health and productivity of their employees.

The overall goal of the Journal is to improve employee healthcare in the oncology and hematology.

The editors of the Journal of Health & Productivityare seeking original research articles and informed commentary on the following topics:

Cancer in the workplace: prevalence and economic impact

Measuring the economic burden of cancer

The impact of cancer and hematological disorders on workplace health and productivity

The psychosocial impact of cancer and hematological disorders and the effect on employee productivity

Lost productive time associated with cancer and hematological disorders

Measuring outcomes and quality of care and the impact on employee productivity

Cost of new therapeutic agents and impact on patients, employees, providers and employers

Effects of innovative models of care, care delivery, and quality of care on employee health and productivity

Effects of healthcare reform on cancer care – and how this impacts employers and employees

Methodologies for accountability of payers and providers in oncology/hematology and the effect on employers and employees

Effect on employee health and productivity of health promotion and care delivery models in oncology/hematology

Improving functional health of employees with cancer and their impact on total labor costs

Impact of new economic models on oncology care – and the effect on employee productivity

Effects of healthcare reform on cancer care on employee health and productivity

Impact of plan design on patient access to appropriate therapies

The benefit of integrating evidence-based guidelines into practice on employee health and productivity

Innovative collaboration between payers, providers, policy-makers and the effect on workplace health and productivity

Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and the impact on employee health and productivity

Cancer survivorship, late treatment-related side effects (physical, psychosocial and cognitive abnormalities) and employee health and productivity

How to submit
Preference will be given to high quality original research and review articles. Contributors are encouraged to report on current research, clarifying the practical implications on employee health and productivity of their work in order to increase understanding and provide a platform for further research and development.

All submitted papers will undergo the standard peer-review process required by Journal of Health & Productivity. Due to space constraints, please limit the text to 4500 words and the graphic elements to a combined total of 6 tables and figures. Final decisions regarding inclusion in this special issue rest solely with the Editors.

Please send your manuscript to:

Peter Hofland, PhD
Publisher and Executive Editor Journal of Health & Productivity
InPress Media Group, LLC
4960 South Gilbert Road, Suite 1286
Chandler, AZ 85249
editor@inpressmediagroup.com

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature: Theorizing Breast Cancer: Narrative, Politics, Memory

We invite proposals for a special issue of Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature that will focus on feminist theories of embodiment in breast cancer narratives, with particular emphasis on transnational, queer, environmental, genetic, biomedical/bioethical, and activist discourses. We seek traditional scholarly or mixed-genre essays that analyze literary and cultural representations of breast cancer in fiction, autobiography/memoir, and/or visual culture and that explore topics such as the following:

1) Women¹s representations of medicalization, e.g. breast cancer diagnosis, lumpectomy, mastectomy, radiation, chemotherapy, other pharmaceutical or technological interventions, and decline or recovery;

2) The shifting politics of prosthesis, reconstruction, breast cancer culture, and/or survivor discourses;

3) Historiographies of breast cancer, including pre-history of cancer narrative as a defined topic;

4) Theories of breast cancer in relation to social determinants of literary and cultural representations;

5) Current and historicized breast cancer narratives as sites of public memory and individual/communal mourning;

6) The politics of location and/or theories of intersectionality in breast cancer narratives as regards racial-ethnic, class, queer, and/or disabled identities;

7) The aesthetic and representational strategies of writers, photographers, and artists who document breast cancer's physical and/or psychological terrain;

8) Possible links among breast cancer, environmental carcinogens, and corporate cultures;

9) The ethics and efficacy of genetic testing, prophylactic mastectomy, and previvor discourses;

10) Breast cancer narratives in popular culture, including film narrative, television, blogs, and websites.

All essays should be informed by recent feminist scholarship on illness, medicalization, and cancer in medical humanities or narrative medicine and in literary, gender, cultural, visual, disability, and/or trauma studies. In the U.S. alone more than 178,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, and 40,000 die of this disease. Worldwide breast cancer rates are rising, and current projections suggest that within ten years, 70% of all breast cancer will affect women from the Global South. This issue of TSWL will examine a wide range of visual and verbal narratives that explore the contours of illness, survival, and memorialization.

Essays should be 6000-9000 words (excluding footnotes and bibliography), should conform to the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, and should be submitted in Microsoft Word. Please send detailed abstracts by August 1, 2012 to both of us and to TSWL editor Laura Stevens (laura-stevens@utulsa.edu). Final essays, subsequent to acceptance of abstracts, will be due by January 4, 2013.

Mary K. DeShazer  Wake Forest University (deshazer@wfu.edu)

Anita Helle Oregon State University (ahelle@oregonstate.edu)