[NIS_GS:] The Politics of Health: CFP
Apologies for cross-posting. I thought listmembers might be interested in the following call for papers. You can learn more about the journal at Theoria's website:
http://www.theoria.unp.ac.za/
Regards
Melissa
The Politics of Health: Call for Papers
Contributions are invited for a special issue of Theoria aimed at exploring the politics and ethics of health and health care. For this special issue contributors are invited to reflect on the relationships between health, justice, power and knowledge in the context of medical provision, health research, health care policies, global interdependence and the spread or resurgence of pandemic diseases such as AIDS and SARS.
Contributions from across the social sciences and humanities, both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary, will be welcomed.
Contributors are encouraged to reflect directly on the meaning of justice in the context of health care, on the nature of medical ethics, and on the implementation of health care policies. Some questions that might guide submission are: Is there a disjuncture between political philosophers' interpretations of justice and those of health care practitioners, policy makers and researchers? What are the issues at stake in justifying policies around AIDS treatment? How and by whom are legitimate health care needs to be determined? What justifies the inclusion or exclusion of certain groups in clinical research? Should health care practitioners be required to undertake a certain amount of
community service? How are public health insurance policies to be justified? What are the implications of distinguishing between first and second generation rights in the context of health care? Will the future of health care inevitably be determined primarily by rich, aging and politically well-connected populations, as in much of the western world, rather than by poor, vulnerable and politically marginal groups and societies? Comparative perspectives and case studies will also be welcomed.
The deadline for submission of papers is 1 February 2006. Three hard
copies of each paper, as well as an electronic version (preferably
MSWord), an abstract and a short (three line) biography, should be sent
to: Roger Deacon, Managing Editor: THEORIA, P.O.Box 50324,
Randjesfontein, 1683, South Africa; e-mail:
deacon@ukzn.ac.za.
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