Calls for Papers

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The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (IJFAB) provides a new forum within bioethics for feminist thought and debate. Sponsored by the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB), IJFAB welcomes feminist scholarship on ethical issues related to health, health care, and the biomedical sciences. IJFAB aims to demonstrate clearly the necessity and distinctive contributions of feminist scholarship to bioethics.

IJFAB invites submissions on any topic in bioethics. Please direct all inquiries and submissions to IJFAB@sunysb.edu.

Articles should not exceed 8,000 words (roughly 32 manuscript pages). Shorter articles are welcome. Additional instructions for authors are available in the style guidlines.

IJFAB invites submissions for "Conversations" and "Commentaries."

"Conversations" provides a forum for public dialogue on particular issues in bioethics. Scholars engaged in fruitful exchanges are encouraged to share those discussions here. Submissions for this section should be limited to 3000 words.

"Commentaries" offers an opportunity for short analyses (under 2000 words) of specific policy issues, legislation, court decisions, or other contemporary developments within bioethics.

IJFAB also includes a Book Review section. Book reviews are typically solicited; however, we strongly encourage authors to submit their books to the Book Review Editor for consideration for review. We also invite proposals for review essays that survey several texts in a particular field. Books and inquiries should be directed to the Book Review Editor: Lisa Eckenwiler, Department of Philosophy, Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, Robinson B 465, 4400 University Drive, MS 3F1, Fairfax, VA., 22030, (703) 993-1290 leckenwiler@gmu.edu.

Calls:

Vol. 2, no. 1 Transnational Dialogues in Feminist Bioethics
(Guest Editors: Arleen Sales and Constance Perry)

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In this issue, IJFAB seeks to encourage debate across national boundaries around issues in bioethics. We invite submissions that explore how differences between feminist thought in developing and developed countries can shape and contribute to the discussion of bioethical issues. Authors could choose to address this from a broad context or a specific issue of interest. We encourage collaborative submissions and papers and responses. The goal is to create a dialogue between diverse cultural, experiential, and national perspectives.
Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2008.

Vol. 2, no. 2 Voice, Power, and Responsibility in Health Care

Papers from the FAB 2008 Congress. See www.fabnet.org for submission information.

Vol. 3, no. 1 Open Issue

Vol. 3, no. 2 From the Margins to the Center: Feminist Disability Studies and/in Feminist Bioethics

(Guest Editor: Shelley Tremain)

Call for Papers (PDF)

In recent years, work done in mainstream bioethics has been challenged by the emerging field of disability studies. A growing number of disability theorists and activists point out that the views about disability and disabled people that mainstream bioethicists have articulated on matters such as prenatal testing, stem cell research, and physician-assisted suicide incorporate significant misunderstandings about them and amount to an institutionalized form of their oppression. This issue of IJFAB will go some distance to move feminist disability studies from the margins to the center of feminist bioethics by highlighting the contributions to and interventions in bioethics that feminist disability studies is uniquely situated to make.

IJFAB also welcomes proposals for future special issues.

Instructions for authors are available at http://inscribe.iupress.org/ loi/fab and at www.ijfab.org. Papers should be submitted in Microsoft Word, as email attachments to IJFAB@sunysb.edu.