CFP: Challenging Medical Knowledge Translation

Challenging Medical Knowledge Translation – Convergence and Divergence of Translation across Epistemic and Cultural Boundaries Palgrave Communications (https://www.nature.com/palcomms/ ) the open access journal from Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature),  which publishes research across the humanities and social sciences, is currently inviting article proposals and full papers for a research article collection (‘special issue’) on …

Plagiarism in Predatory Publications: A Comparative Study of Three Nursing Journals

Owens, J. K. and Nicoll, L. H. (2019), Plagiarism in Predatory Publications: A Comparative Study of Three Nursing Journals. Journal of Nursing Scholarship. doi:10.1111/jnu.12475 Conclusions This study found a substantial level of plagiarism via duplicate publications in the three analyzed predatory journals, further diluting credible scientific literature and risking the ability to synthesize evidence accurately …

CFP: Breast Cancer Book Chapters

I’d like to connect with scholars who have an interest in potentially contributing to a book on breast cancer as it is experienced/understood in North America and the UK. I currently have a contract with British publishing house Peter Lang Oxford for a book tentatively entitled Breast Cancer Unbound.  This volume, scheduled for publication in 2020, is …

Guides for Reviewing Others’ Mss

One of the best ways of honing your skills as an academic or professional writer is to serve as an anonymous peer reviewer for others' manuscript submissions to journals. If you are new to this, there are several online guides: An online course in writing and reviewing for professional publications prepared by Patricia Gonce Morton, …

CFP Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities

CFP: International Medical Humanities Conference Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities The MSU Medical Humanities Program and ‘Waiting Times’ (a Wellcome Trust funded research project based at the University of Exeter and Birkbeck, University of London, UK) are pleased to announce an international conference on the theme of “Chronicity and Crisis” to be …

CFP: Gender and Trauma: Material, Methods, Media

Gender and Trauma: Material, Methods, Media  2019 Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University September 20–21, 2019          Grand Rapids, Michigan Co-organized by Jason Crouthamel (Grand Valley State University), Julia B. Köhne (Humboldt University in Berlin), Peter Leese (University of Copenhagen) and Ville Kivimäki (University of Tampere, Finland). Sponsored by the Grand Valley State University …

CFP: Advances in Pediatric/Neonatal Care

Sponsored by Connecticut Children’s Medical Center Learning & Performance Department October 28th to 29th, 2019 Water’s Edge Resort and Spa Westbrook, Connecticut We invite you to submit an abstract for a poster presentation at the Pediatric/Neonatal Conference, Building Brighter Futures. Abstracts of completed research, research in progress, evidence-based practice, concept analysis, integrated reviews, best practice, …