Calls for Papers & Nominations

Yale University’s working group on global environmental history invites paper proposals from _graduate students_ at northeastern universities for a one-day regional conference entitled “Social Conflict and Environmental Change in Comparative and Historical Perspective.” Three moderated panel sessions will explore global social and environmental conflicts. Professor Donald Worster of the University of Kansas will deliver a lunchtime address on the conference theme, and a faculty panel and reception will conclude the day.

Social conflicts over natural resources shape the abilities of communities and nations to access water, energy, food, and other critical needs. These struggles to control and manage resources – as well as ideas about these resources - have profound implications not only for ecological integrity but also for social justice and equity. Environmental history scholarship has played a leading role in exploring the origins and unfolding of such struggles, whether between governments and indigenous peoples, corporations and communities, scientists and the public, or different ethnic groups.

In choosing a broad theme for the conference, we hope to encourage submission of abstracts that address the wide range of environmental history’s subgenres, whether dealing with material resources, intellectual debates, social changes, or cultural practices. Conference organizers are particularly interested in the inclusion of comparative and non-U.S. perspectives on environmental history.

Presentations will be approximately 20 minutes, based on papers circulated in advance to panel commentators and attendees.

Abstract submissions should be in the form of a SINGLE document, and must include the following: (1) your name, institutional affiliation, and contact information; (2) a 250-word abstract; (3) a one-page C.V. Submissions must be emailed to environmentalhistory@yale.edu by December 1, 2009. ** Submissions are invited from graduate students enrolled in doctoral programs in New England, New York, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania. **

Accepted presenters will be notified by December 20, 2009 and asked to submit a full version of their paper for circulation to conference attendees and commentators by March 1, 2010. Please contact environmentalhistory@yale.edu with any questions. For more information, visit: http://www.yale.edu/environmentalhistory

Conference of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law [AABHL] July 2010

Call for Abstracts is now open.

Researchers, practitioners, politicians, lawyers and commercial interests have an impact on matters that the community might consider to be their choice. How do we ensure the public is informed about and engaged with the work of bioethics? The 2010 AABHL Conference will explore questions of choice across many settings from:

The theoretical to the practical
Research to application
Law to policy and practice

Abstracts are invited for presentation in either an Oral or a Poster session at the Conference. Oral presentations are limited in number and, at the discretion of the Conference Organising Committee, authors maybe offered a poster presentation.

Important Dates

Call for Abstracts close: Friday 12 March 2010

Notification of Acceptance: April 2010

For full details and submission instructions see http://www.plevin.com.au/aabhl2010/papers.htm

AABHL 2010

Plevin and Associates Pty Ltd
PO Box 54
BURNSIDE South Australia 5066
Tel: +61 8 8379 8222
Fax +61 8 8379 8177
events@plevin.com.au

Ethics at the Business-Health Care Interface Conference: Finding and Filling the Gaps

September 17-19, 2010

York University, Toronto, ON

Call for Papers

Wesley Cragg, York University, Principal Investigator of Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN), and Alex Wellington, Ryerson University, Acting Director of Ryerson's Ethics Network INVITE the submission of WORKING PAPERS for a Conference on "Ethics at the Business-Health Care Interface: Finding and Filling the Gaps"

DATES of Conference:

Friday September 17 (evening)

Saturday September 18 (all day)

Sunday September 19 (half day)

VENUE:

York University Campus, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario

PAPERS DUE: August 1, 2010
*NOTE: All workshop papers will be posted on a secure, invitation only portion of the CBERN website and available for reading by all workshop participants on August 1, 2010. Workshop participants will be encouraged to become familiar with the workshop papers prior to the workshop.

Working Papers should be suitable for a 20 minute presentation, which will be followed by questions and discussion. It is the hope of the conference organizers that presenters will be willing to turn their Working Papers into publications for an Anthology, which we intend to publish as a follow up on the Conference.

We are especially interested in items which focus on the Canadian context. General conceptual and theoretical papers are very welcome.

SUGGESTED TOPICS:

· Advertising, including Direct to Consumer Advertising

· Benefit Sharing

· Biobanks

· Clinical Trials

· Conflicts of Interest

· Essential Medicines and Patent Reform

· Ghostwriting

· Leadership

· Medical Education

· Medical Tourism/ Surgical Tourism

This workshop will mark the culmination of a SSHRC funded research project entitled "Ethics at the healthcare/business interface". The summary of the proposal and the detailed project description can be found here.

It may be possible for the organizers to provide assistance for travel and accommodation. Further announcements in this regard will be forthcoming. All information about the workshop will be posted when it is available on the CBERN website at: www.cbern.ca.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

Submissions should be emailed to Wesley Cragg (wcragg@schulich.yorku.ca) AND Alex Wellington (alex.wellington@sympatico.ca) by August 1, 2010.

Wesley Cragg

Project Director and Principal Investigator
Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN)
Business Ethics Program Director
Schulich School of Business
Founding Chair and President
Transparency International Canada
www.businessethicscanada.ca

N 210 -- Schulich School of Business
York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, Canada, M3J 1P3
Tel: 416-736-2100 Ext. 20686

Alex Wellington

Department of Philosophy

Ryerson University

Room 422, Jorgenson Hall

350 Victoria Street

Toronto, Ontario

M5B 2K3

Email: awelling@philosophy.ryerson.ca

Phone: 416-979-5000, ext 4057

State Provision of a Decent Minimum of Health Care

The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

In 1983 the President’s Commission released a report entitled Securing Access to Health Care, which concluded that there were normative reasons for ensuring access to an “adequate level of care” for all Americans. Most believe that this standard has yet to be achieved in American health care, although perhaps it has been achieved in other countries.

More recently, Congress has considered mandating coverage for all Americans and mandating that employers cover all employees. But this raises the question, “coverage of what?” The terms “decent minimum” or “adequate” coverage have been absent from the debate, but the bills recently constructed by both the Senate HELP Committee and the House Tri-Committee require the creation of “an essential benefits package that provides a comprehensive set of services.”[1] But these terms raise the same questions raised by the term “decent minimum:” for example, what exactly is included in such a package? Is there a natural or moral right to such health care access or does the government have a moral duty to provide it? If so, then how is the level of coverage to which citizens are morally entitled to be determined? If not, then why not and under what circumstances could such an “essential benefits package” be legitimately mandated? Questions about the content of the decent minimum become quite complex in a culturally and religiously pluralistic society. Would a state mandate of a decent minimum necessitate that the state rigidly define which procedures and treatments fall under the legitimate domain of medicine? Or could such a plan be structured so as to accommodate a variety of understandings of the meaning and role of medicine? Contributions may treat one or more of these questions or other questions related to the decent minimum at the author’s discretion.

All contributions are due by November 30, 2009. Please consult JMP format guidelines (which can be found here) and email contributions to dmacdoug@slu.edu. Contributions will be blind peer-reviewed before acceptance and, following acceptance, will be published at the editor’s discretion.

[1] A helpful summary of the new bills can be found here.

Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights

Series Editor: Thom Brooks

‘Global justice and human rights’ is perhaps the hottest topic today. Studies in Global Justice and Human Rights is a new book series published by Edinburgh University Press. The series aims to publish groundbreaking work in this increasingly popular field. This series will publish leading monographs and edited collections on key topics in the area of global justice and human rights that will be of broad interest to theorists working in politics, international relations, philosophy, and related disciplines.

Topics of particular importance are democracy, global gender justice, global justice, global poverty, human rights, international environmental justice, and just war theory amongst others. This series aspires to publish the leading work in this area with broad interdisciplinary appeal. EUP books are distributed in North America by various presses, including Columbia University Press, the University of Chicago Press, Palgrave Macmillan, and others.

Expressions of interest are most welcome and should be directed to the series editor, Thom Brooks.

18th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPOSITES or NANO ENGINEERING

July 4-10, 2010, Anchorage, AK

www.uno.edu/~engr/composite

Interested authors should submit tentative paper title immediately. The two-page detailed abstract, should be written, by following the abstract format in web page.

Please apply for travel funds and passport visa early, since this can take time.

All ICCE-18 Anchorage short papers will be reviewed and selected detailed short papers will be published in the World Journal of Engineering. Participants of ICCE-18 are encouraged to expand the short paper to become a full-length paper and then submit it to any journals of his/her choice, or submit for review in the World Journal of Engineering. Thus, most participants will have two journal publications (one short paper, one long paper) as a benefit of coming to ICCE-18 Anchorage.

If you are sure you cannot attend ICCE-18, please do not submit a paper title to me.

David Hui

dhui@uno.edu

Call for Papers for DePauw University Undergraduate Ethics Symposium

Lauren Lefebvre ('09) writes that her alma mater (DePauw Univeristy) holds an undergraduate ethics symposium each year in April. This year's program is April 1-3. Undergraduate papers are being accepted for review for this symposium (additional perks: paid travel, hotel and lots of free food included!) For further information click here.

University of Pennsylvania Bioethics Journal

Tuua Ruutiainen ('09) is encouraging submission of bioethics papers to the University of Pennsylvania Bioethics Journal, an undergraduate peer-reviewed journal which is also encouraging international submissions. Published twice a year. Please note: the Journal only accepts submissions from current undergraduates or papers from recent graduates written while they were undergraduates.

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine

Theme Issue on Palliative Care, Dying, and Bereavement

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2009;163(6):589.

The Archives will publish a "rolling theme issue" this year on palliative care, dying, and bereavement. We are interested in original articles, narrative and systematic reviews, and commentaries that will add to the scientific knowledge about these topics. Such articles might include observational longitudinal studies such as the effects of loss of a family member on children and adolescents; clinical trials examining specific interventions or evaluating different systems of delivering palliative, hospice, or bereavement care; and ethical analyses regarding how we decide on and enact the goals and limits of medical therapy.

Our intent is to bring these issues to the forefront of pediatrics and adolescent medicine, just as they are in the minds of those children and families who are confronted with such loss. We hope the attention of the Archives will advance science and provide help to the physicians dealing with these issues on behalf of their patients and families.

This call for papers will be an ongoing one, and we intend to publish articles on this topic throughout the year as the manuscripts are submitted and accepted. For specific guidelines on manuscript preparation and submission, please consult the author instructions on our Web site at www.archpediatrics.com. Authors should indicate in their cover letter that the manuscript is to be considered for this theme.

IRB: Ethics & Human Research

For over 30 years, IRB: Ethics & Human Research has been the leading journal devoted to ethical issues in human subjects research. Authors use theoretical, conceptual, and empirical approaches to explore fundamental ethical considerations:

*What recruitment strategies are used to enroll individuals in clinical trials?

*What counts as well-informed consent?

*How are research risks and benefits understood by researchers, IRBs, and research participants?

*What special protections may be needed for vulnerable populations — like children and adults with cognitive impairments — who participate in clinical trials?

IRB: Ethics & Human Research is a bimonthly peer reviewed journal that contains articles by leading experts in the field. To inquire about contributing an essay to IRB, submission guidelines for authors may be reviewed here.

Founded in 1969, The Hastings Center is the oldest independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit bioethics research institute in the world to address the fundamental ethical issues in the areas of health, medicine, and the environment as they affect individuals, communities, and societies. The Center promotes discussion of ethical issues in medicine and the life sciences.

The Hastings Center publishes IRB: Ethics & Human Research, the leading journal devoted to ethics and human subjects research, and the Hastings Center Report, a premier journal in bioethics. Bioethics Forum is a free Web-based service that offers weekly commentary on current bioethics issues.

Contact Information

Electronic Mail: publications@thehastingscenter.org

Telephone: (845) 424-4040, ext. 234

World Wide Web: http://www.thehastingscenter.org

Introducing ‘Philosophical Papers and Reviews (PPR)’

The Philosophical Papers and Reviews (PPR) publishes high-quality solicited and unsolicited articles, in all areas of the subject. All articles published in PPR will be peer-reviewed. The following types of papers are considered for publication:

· Original articles in basic and applied research.

· Critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays.

Our objective is to inform authors of the decision on their manuscript(s) within four weeks of submission. Following acceptance, a paper will normally be published in the next issue.

Instruction for authors and other details are available on our website www.academicjournals.org/PPR. Prospective authors should send their manuscript(s) to PPR@acadjourn.org

Open Access

One key request of researchers across the world is unrestricted access to research publications. PPR is fully committed Open Access Initiative by providing free access to all articles (both abstract and full PDF text) as soon as they are published. We ask you to support this initiative by publishing your papers in this journal.

Invitation to Review

PPR is seeking for qualified reviewers as members of the review board team. PPR serves as a great resource for researchers and students across the globe. We ask you to support this initiative by joining our reviewer’s team. If you are interested in serving as a reviewer, kindly send us your resume to PPR@acadjourn.org

Publication Alert

We will be glad to send you a publication alert showing the table of content with link to the various abstracts and full PDF text of articles published in each issue. Kindly send us an email if you will like to receive publication alert.

E-mail: PPR@acadjourn.org

www.academicjournals.org/PPR

Peer-Reviewed Undergraduate Bioethics Journal

We are accepting articles specifically on bioethics as well as philosophy papers (for our sister journal, Ephemeris). Email submissions to Bioethics.Union@gmail.com.

Yale Bioethics Center

Calls for Papers & Nominations