Calls for Papers

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. 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

Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2009.

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.

Vol. 4, no. 1 Special Issue: Femnist Perspectives on Ethics in Psychiatry

(Guest Editors: Jennifer Hansen, Nancy Potter and Jennifer Radden)

Central to the focus of this issue is the question: how do feminist psychiatric ethics differ from mainstream psychiatric ethics? Part of the answer to this question involves making explicit the commitments and challenges that feminist analyses pose to mainstream psychiatric practice. For example, what sort of power differentials play out in the doctor- patient relationship?; what sexist (classist and racist) assumptions play out in psychiatric diagnoses as well as more fundamentally in psychiatric nosology?; how equal is access among women of color and of working class women to mental health services?; and how do ethnocentric assumptions underpin the medical model and thereby fail many non-Western communities?: The primary concern of feminist analyses also fundamentally implicates the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality in the access to and delivery of mental health services.

Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2010.

Call for Papers (PDF)

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.