CFS: Just Food (Int’l J Feminist Bioethics)

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

http://www.ijfab.org/cfp.html

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

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

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

CFP: Colorado Health Ethics Forum

Colorado Health Ethics Forum – CHEF Conference 2013 | CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS | Deadline: January 15, 2013

Preparations for the 2013 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum conference are well underway, and we and invite you to join us by submitting proposals for presentations for this popular annual event. The 2013 Conference dates are May 9th and 10th and will be again held at The Stonebrook Manor Event Center and Gardens in Thornton, Colorado.

Our theme this year will be “Bedside, Boardroom, and Boulevard: Health Care Ethics at the Intersections.”

A recent front page New York Times article asserted that, “historians and policy makers believe this election could be the most significant referendum on a piece of social legislation since 1936,” when The Social Security Act was passed. Members of the healthcare ethics community find nothing surprising in this assertion, as we have been on the front lines of the debates grappling with the deepest dimensions of healthcare and policy for decades. As well, we live the implications of the outcomes and often find ourselves working in the interstitial spaces between high-level policy, clinical application, and public perceptions.

As we watch and wait for current national Health Care Reform decisions to be made in Washington, we continue to be fully engaged in the everyday ethical dimensions of healthcare. Whether we work at the bedside delivering care or in the “boardroom” establishing policies and implementing business practices, the needs, demands, and discourse taking place on the “boulevard” affect our daily lives. Our theme this year arises from the recognition that these domains are not as distinct as they might appear or once were. Ongoing challenges in healthcare have created new opportunities for greater awareness and collaboration, as well as for distracting or even dangerous conflicts and misunderstandings across these domains.

In order to facilitate the necessary conversations, CHEF is seeking presentations on a wide variety of topics. For additional information and to submit proposals for presentations, please visit our website at:

http://coloradoethicsforum.org/Call_for_Presentations.html

CFS: Narrative, Bioethics

Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics: A Journal of Qualitative Research (NIB), published by Johns Hopkins University Press, provides a forum for exploring current issues in bioethics through the publication and analysis of personal stories, qualitative and mixed methods research articles, and case studies. Articles may address the experiences of patients and research participants, as well as health care workers and researchers. NIB seeks to publish articles that will appeal to a broad readership of health care providers and researchers, bioethicists, sociologists, policy makers, and others.

NIB invites 3 kinds of contributions:

• Personal Stories. We seek true personal stories that will be included in “narrative symposia.” Each symposium will be on a specific topic, and will include 8 to 15 personal stories on the topic, followed by two commentary articles exploring themes in the stories to extract lessons or insights.
  • Our first three narrative symposia will be on the following topics:
    • Living with Conflicts of Interest in Medicine (Symposium Editor, James DuBois)
    • Nursing Assistants in Long-Term Care Facilities (Symposium Editor, Amy Haddad)
    • Experiences of Psychiatric Hospitalization (Symposium Editor, Charles Lidz)

Please visit our website
http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/narrative_inquiry_in_bioethics/
 for details on the narrative symposia, our guidelines for authors, and the kinds of stories we seek. For our first three issues, we will give priority to story proposals received by October 15, 2010; cases studies and research articles may be submitted at any time.

• Qualitative Research Studies. We invite researchers to submit articles that report on qualitative or mixed methods research studies that address significant topics in the area of bioethics. Visit our website for guidelines for authors
  http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/narrative_inquiry_in_bioethics/guidelines.html
  
• Case Studies. We invite ethicists and other scholars to submit articles that discuss cases in health care or medical research that raise interesting ethical issues. Visit our website for guidelines for authors
  http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/narrative_inquiry_in_bioethics/guidelines.html
  

CFS: Ethics with Minority Populations (Am J of Publ Hlth)

Call for Papers for a Theme Issue of the American Journal of Public Health: The Ethics of Human Subjects Research with Minority Populations

http://www.healthequity.umd.edu/call_forpaper.asp

The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) intends to publish a theme issue on the complex issues related to the ethical treatment of human research subjects with respect to underrepresented, minority, and vulnerable populations. As part of the Bioethics Research Infrastructure Initiative: Building Trust between Minorities and Researchers grant, guest editors, Drs. Stephen B. Thomas, Sandra C. Quinn, and Nancy E. Kass are working with AJPH to produce this theme issue on the ethical engagement of minority participants in research.

The goal of this issue is to assemble a collection of papers that explores the factors that affect the inclusion of these populations in research and to identify innovative strategies, solutions, and policies to achieve ethical inclusion of minority populations in research, including clinical trials. The focus is on health issues, in particular how the exclusion and exploitation of minority populations in research can contribute to health disparities, how policy changes have affected minority inclusion in research, and how clinical practices and medical decisions may be impacted by more inclusive research studies. Topical areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Novel strategies for the ethical engagement of underrepresented participants in research
• Impact of prominent cases of research abuse or controversy on researchers’ practices, community attitudes, and regulatory policy in
• the oversight of research
• Training and educational efforts designed to strengthen the capacity of investigators, research staff, and regulators to ethically engage minority communities in research
• Challenges of ethical engagement of minority populations in cutting edge research including issues related to broad consent for genetic research among other topics
• Implications of cultural, social, community, and political factors on willingness to participate in research and autonomous decision making about research
• Consideration of social impacts of research on minority communities
• Implications of the ethical duty to include and/or engage minority participants in research

All types of manuscripts will be considered and will undergo the peer review process by the AJPH editors and peer referees as defined by AJPH policy. Submission of a manuscript for consideration in this theme issue does not guarantee publication. Manuscripts will be due to the Journal by October 12, 2012 and can be submitted at:
http://editorialmanager.com/ajph
 Article guidelines and submission instructions are available at:
http://ajph.aphapublications.org

LISTING OF GUEST EDITORS

• Sandra Crouse Quinn, PhD, Associate Dean for Public Health Initiatives, Senior Associate Director, Maryland Center for Health Equity, Professor, Department of Family Science, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
• Stephen B. Thomas, PhD, Professor, Department of Health Services Administration, Director, University of Maryland Center for Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
• Nancy E. Kass, ScD, Phoebe R. Berman Professor of Bioethics and Public Health, Berman Institute of Bioethics and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1809 Ashland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21205

CFP: Western Schools Publishing

Western Schools is a publisher and nationally recognized accredited provider of peer-reviewed continuing nursing education home study courses. We are presently seeking authors and content editors to write articles and books for publication. Those contracted will receive financial compensation.

We have writing opportunities in the following nursing topics. Additional topics not listed may also be considered.

Topics: ADHD, Alzheimer’s Disease, ambulatory care, assessment, asthma, assessment, bioterrorism, cardiac, case management, chest tubes, CHF, competencies, critical care, death, depression, dialysis, diabetes, documentation and electronic health records, domestic violence, ECG monitoring, end of life, ethics, fall prevention, geriatrics, healing nutrition, hemodynamic monitoring, hepatitis, HIV, holistic health, infections, immunizations, informatics, leadership, legal issues, maternal-newborn, medical errors, medical-surgical topics, mentoring, MRSA, neonatal, neuro, nursing management, nursing practice, OB/GYN, oncology, orthopedics, pain management, palliative care, pediatrics, pediatric pharmacology, pharmacology, preceptorship, professional nursing topics, psychopharmacology, rehab, renal, respiratory topics, safety, school nursing, sedation/analgesia, seizures, sleep apnea, social media, stroke, TB, trauma, weight loss surgery, and women’s health.

Requirements: Authors should have a valid nursing license and prior publishing experience. An advanced degree in nursing and five years of clinical and/or academic experience in the content area being developed is preferred. Experienced authors with degrees in fields other than nursing will also be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Interested candidates should e-mail their CV and a writing sample, along with their contact information to: authors@westernschools.com  Please specify topic(s) of interest. Additionally, if you know of someone else who may be interested, please feel free to forward this e-mail to them.

Amy Bernard, MS, BSN, RN-BC, Director, Continuing Education, Western Schools, 400 Manley Street, PO Box 65, West Bridgewater, MA 02379, Phone (508) 638-7060, Fax: 508-894-0179, Website: www.westernschools.com

Retractions

The New York Times reports on a growing concern about researchers’ misconduct and journal editors’ need to retract previously published articles:

The journal [Infection and Immunity] wound up retracting six of the papers from the author, Naoki Mori of the University of the Ryukyus in Japan. And it soon became clear that Infection and Immunity was hardly the only victim of Dr. Mori’s misconduct. Since then, other scientific journals have retracted two dozen of his papers, according to the watchdog blog Retraction Watch.

The article “A Sharp Rise in Retractions Prompts Calls for Reform” by Carl Zimmer is on line.

CFS: The Journal of Hospital Ethics

The Center for Ethics at MedStar Washington Hospital Center publishes The Journal of Hospital Ethics (JOHE) three times a year. As clinical ethics experts in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding metro area, the Center for Ethics develops, promotes and maintains the highest standards in clinical ethics knowledge. We answer ethically challenging questions raised in a clinical setting and assist health care staff, administration, patients and families in making sound medical decisions.

The Journal of Hospital Ethics is an innovative and valuable resource for clinicians. Topics to look for in future issues of the Journal of Hospital Ethics:

• Volume 2, Number 3: Trauma
• Volume 3, Number 1: Informed Consent/ Informed Refusal
• Volume 3, Number 2: Cancer
• Volume 3, Number 3: Neonatology

Further information at:
http://www.whcenter.org/body.cfm?id=556801

CFP: Colo Ethics Forum

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: CHEF 2012: Borders and Barriers: Mapping a Moral Path

Deadline: February 15th, 2012

The 2012 Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum Conference will be held April 26th and 27th, 2012 at The Stonebrook Manor Event Center and Gardens in Thornton, Colorado. This year’s theme is Borders and Barriers: Mapping a Moral Path. Ethics is a process of choosing among different paths, each path having its own unique obstacles and challenges. Some obstacles are moral in nature as we attempt to address conflicts among ethical principles or different methods of assessing the moral dimensions of a situation. Other challenges relate to conflicts among deeply held beliefs, values and preferences among patients, families, providers and the community at large. Finally, many obstacles are practical such as those involving scarce resources, limited time, lack of knowledge and uncertain outcomes. Borders are the diverse lines we often must cross when making ethical decisions including legal and regulatory requirements or competing political, social, religious and moral beliefs. Borders also include the fine lines between patients and families, providers and/or the organization. Barriers include all of the practical realities that seem to challenge our efforts at moral action including ineffective communication, lack of support, scarce resources and limited options.

The two day conference will have a Hot Topics track that will focus on high profile issues in the healthcare headlines and an Issues in Practice track that will focus on highly applied topics for individual and ethics committee development. Proposals are sought on a wide range of topics. Suggestions include:

• Health care reform (e.g., financial constraints, access, quality, community based health care, accountable care organizations)
• Allocation of resources (e.g., drug shortages, high cost treatment, new technologies)
• Setting-specific topics (long term care, hospice, behavioral health, military healthcare)
• Patient-centered topics (e.g., undocumented and/or indigent patients, patient compliance, spiritual care in different cultural and religious traditions)
• Provider-centered topics (e.g., limits of provider conscience, compassion fatigue, moral distress)
• Organization-centered topics (e.g., organizational ethics and social responsibility, quality management, privacy)
• Vulnerable populations (cultural differences, children, research subjects)
• Effective communication (e.g. difficult conversations, conflict management, language barriers)
• Ethics committee development and performance (e.g., decision-making, consultation, leadership)
• Moral theories, concepts and decision making

GENERAL INFORMATION

The Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum is an active and diverse community of health professionals and laypersons in Colorado who work collaboratively to raise the awareness of ethical issues, promote ethical practice and respond to current and future ethical challenges in the delivery of health care. The annual CHEF conference attracts 150-175 participants annually and is well recognized throughout the Rocky Mountain region. For more on the vision, mission and values of CHEF, visit our website at
http://coloradoethicsforum.org/
 .

Please submit written proposals to Deb Bennett-Woods at presentations@coloradoethicsconference.org  no later than February 15, 2012. Proposals should include the following:

• Presentation type (Individual / Panel / Workshop). Individual and Panel presentations are typically scheduled for 60 minutes. Workshops may be proposed for longer periods, generally 2 hours.
• Name, CV and a brief biography of presenter(s). (Note: Brief bios should be no more than 75 words.)
• An abstract of the presentation, no longer than a single page, setting forth the issue, the presenter’s thesis, and the approach to be taken.
• Any special presentation requirements (audio/visual, seating arrangements, etc) and limitations on availability for those dates.

In addition to requesting proposals, we encourage you to pass along any suggestions for speakers or presentations with which you may be familiar that would be a good match for this year’s conference.

CFP: Entity and Identity in Bioethics, Paris International Conference

Entity and Identity in Bioethics, Paris International Conference

Location: France | Call for Papers Deadline: February 10, 2012

The purpose of this conference is twofold: firstly, to engage researchers with different cultural, political, philosophical, religious backgrounds in a debate on the close relation between entity and identity in bioethics; and secondly, to obtain a better theoretical understanding of the identities of those that engage in bioethical debates. The International Conference will take place at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris from 23 to 24 April 2012 at and it is organized by Ars Identitatis Cultural Research Association. The proceedings will be published (after peer review): some in paperback format, the others in electronic format. Ars Identitatis encourages interdisciplinary debates, that is why we are inviting anyone who could contribute to this debate (Professors, Researchers, Journalists, NGO activists, Lawyers, Clerics, etc.). Submissions from graduate students are also encouraged. We accept both Panel proposals and Individual abstracts. Individual abstracts should be of no more than 450 words in length. Those who intend to send individual abstracts are kindly requested to submit also a short bio note. The person who submits a panel proposal is kindly requested to send us a short Curriculum Vitae (one page) together with a presentation of the panel and the abstracts. The other panelists should send only a short bio-note. Each panel proposal should contain at least two abstracts. The deadline for sending abstracts is February 10 but we encourage early submissions, in order to allow the selection commission to have enough time for deliberation. We will acknowledge receipt of your abstract. In case you don’t receive any reply from us after 3 days, please resend your abstract.

Ars Identitatis is an independent non-profit association. We are making efforts to keep as low as possible the logistics costs related to the conference and to the publication production process.

Please send your materials and address your enquiries to Ms. Silvia Stoica (President of Ars Identitatis) Mr. Ionut Untea (PhD candidate, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes) and Ms. Andrada Maran (Ecole Polytechnique) at: registration@identitatis.org

For updates, please visit
http://www.ars.identitatis.org/

Silvia Stoica, Ars Identitatis Cultiral Research Association, 49 Bd. de Clichy, 75009, Paris, France

CFP: Health, Culture, Human Body (conference)

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: The 2nd international and interdisciplinary conference on Health, Culture and the Human Body: Epidemiology, ethics and history of medicine, perspectives from Turkey and Central Europe Istanbul, Turkey, 13-15 September 2012

Demographic change in a globalized world raises not only social and economic issues but also ethical problems within the medical system of aging societies. Medical care for elderly people cannot be conceptualized and organized without considering a cultural understanding of aging and the economic and social circumstances of a given society. In this regard this conference will focus on ethical, historical and epidemiological perspectives of aging in a global world, including issues such as health care research and health-related knowledge, attitudes and practices of elderly people. Further subjects of the conference are the beginning of life and sexually transmitted diseases, which will also be discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective. This conference will focus on the selected cases from Turkey, Germany, and other countries which for the last 50 years have been closely connected by substantial migration processes, as they had been earlier through medical scientific exchanges and common clinical practice. After the well received first round held in Germany (Mainz) in 2010, the aim of this second conference is to establish a discussion platform for different ethical considerations among historically connected countries, applying an interdisciplinary “medicine studies” approach to selected sample cases from Turkey, Germany and other countries with comparable relationships.

The chosen thematic areas are:

• Aging, culture and medicine (aging and culture, aging and perception of the body, medical care and geriatrics, geriatrics and ethics, hospice systems)
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases (e.g. AIDS, syphilis, gonorrhea; the social perception of venereal diseases and medicine, politics-ethics and the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases)
• Beginning of life and ethics (Assisted Reproductive Technologies, abortion, religion-medicine and the beginning of life)
• Migration and Health

Abstracts (max. 250 words) of proposed conference papers should be submitted by 29 February 2012, to the attention of Hakan Ertin MD PhD, E-Mail: hakanertin@gmail.com  Istanbul University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of History of Medicine and Ethics. Tel: +90 532 321 71 77

Fax: +90 212 414 22 86 Publication of selected papers is envisaged. Venue: Istanbul University Doctorate Halls –Beyazıt, Istanbul, Turkey