ASBH Call for Essays
ASBH is proud to announce a new forum for short essays in bioethics and the medical humanities aimed at both academics and educated laypeople. These essays, 1500-2000 words in length inclusive of references, will be submitted to volunteer editors and undergo peer review. The best of them will be posted to the ASBH website (abh.org) as "Bioethics Briefs," some of which may be included in upcoming issues of the ASBH Reader.
First call: Ethical Aspects of Health Care Reform in the United States
For the inaugural set of essays, we solicit work by junior scholars only, on ethical aspects of health care reform. The author(s) can have attained an academic rank no higher than assistant professor. Submissions by students and ASBH members who work outside academia are welcome. Only submission by ASBH members will be considered. In the case of multiple authored essays, all authors must meet these eligibility requirements.
Deadline for Submissions: August 1, 2009
Essays should be sent by e-mail as a Word file to Mark Kuczewski at mkuczew@lumc.edu. Please designate the subject line as "Bioethics Brief."
References should be in reference list format in accordance with specifications of the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. A style sheet is available upon request.
Guidelines for Contributors
1. Manuscripts should be double spaced (including quotations and excerpts, notes, and references), and the right margin should not be justified.
2. To facilitate our anonymous review process, the author should not be identified except on the title page.
3. Papers should include an abstract of 75 words (or less).
4. Please use American spellings and punctuation, except when directly quoting a source that has followed British style.
6. Notes should be kept brief and placed in a separate section at the end of the paper. Any acknowledgments should appear first, unnumbered.
7. We use the author-date system of citing references, as described in The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed., University of Chicago Press, 2003). In the text or notes, works should be cited as (author year, page number); for example (Card 2003, 65). The page number alone can be used if understood from the context; for example (86). A list of all works cited should be included after the notes in a section called "References." Titles of articles and books in the references follow sentence capitalization: only the first word and proper nouns are capitalized. For example:
Latham, Stephen R. 1996. Regulation of managed care incentive payments to physicians. American Journal of Law and Medicine 22 (4):399-432
------. 2001. System and responsibility: Three readings of the IOM report on medical error. American Journal of Law and Medicine 27: 163-179.
Lindemann, Hilde. 2007. Obligations to fellow and future bioethicists: Publication. In The Ethics of bioethics, ed. Lisa A. Eckenwiler and Felicia G. Cohn. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University press.
McNeil, Donald G. 2009. No guidance on how to rein in the flu. New York Times, May 19.
Kleinman, Arthur. 1988. The illness narratives: Suffering, healing, and the human condition. New York: Basic Books.
Sullivan, Jennifer. 2009. Covering more children, rewarding success: State performance bonuses. http://www.familiesusa.org/assets/pdfs/chipra/state-performance-bonuses.pdf
Accessed 19 May 2009.
Education for All Handicapped Children Act. 1975. U.S. Public Law 94-142, U.S. Code. Vol. 20, sec. 1400 et seq.
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