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Call For Papers For Theme Monograph 2009
Women’s Issues
- Health Issues Peculiar To Women: An Overview
- Working Mothers: How Much Working, How Much Mothers, And
Where Is The Womanhood?
- Pregnancy and Care: Medical And Psychological Issues
- Premenstrual Tension: The Problem And The Remedy
- Rape: Its Victim, The Perpetrator, And Society
- End Of Life Issues In Women
- The Institution Of Marriage: Serious Breaches In Its Walls?
- Bioethical Issues In Abortion, Surrogacy And IVF
- Women And Mental Health
- TV Viewing And Violence In Children: The Evidence For And
Against
- Dowry Deaths: A Social Epidemic
- Women, Nudity And Pornography
- Teenage Pregnancy And Psychological Sequelae
- Marriage And Career: A Delicate Balancing Act For Women
- Menopause: Medical And Psychological Problems And Solutions
- Old Age And Womanhood
- Marriage, Adjustment And Self-Identity From a Feminine
Perspective
- Empowerment Of Women
- Self-Actualisation And Gender
- Womanhood: Individual, Social-Cultural And Ideological
Perspectives
- The Female Physique And Psyche
- Sexual Abuse And Exploitation At Workplace
- Female Marginalisation And Exploitation
- Women Versus Women
- Female Sexuality
- Daughter, Wife And Mother: Indian And Cross-Cultural
Perspective
- Women, Poverty And Exploitation
- The Feminist Perspective
- Wife-Battering
- The Concept Of Femininity Across Cultures And History
- The Psychological Problems Of Widowhood And Divorce
- Spinsters, Young And Old
- When The Woman Supercedes The Man: In Office, Marriage,
Politics And Family
- The Female Orgasm
- Women In Films, Soaps, Ads And Fiction: Stereotypy
Reinforced?
- When Women Take To Conventionally Accepted Male Professions
- The Problem Of Prostitution
- Women Working In The Glamour World: Problems And
Opportunities
- The Female Child
- Women In Art: Feminine Creativity
- The Female In Religious Scriptures: Goddesses, Temptresses
And Property
- Marital Infidelity And The Female
- Careers That Suit Women: The Evidence For And Against
- Ads, Media And Female Vulnerability
- Do Women Look At Issues Differently Than Men?
- Aggression, Passivity And Femininity
- What Women Consider Beautiful: The Feminine Aesthetics
- Psychologists And Psychiatrists On Women And Femininity
- Women And The Invisible Glass Ceiling
- Gossip, Kitty Parties, And Bitching
- Nurturance, Compassion And Womanhood
- The Agony And Ecstasy Of The Female Artist
Authors must convey their topics selected from the above by 15th
January 2008. They maybe more than one topic for one paper, but
not more than three. Please check topic availability with the
editor. Full paper for potential publication should reach the
Editor in Microsoft Word format by 15th March 2008.
- All papers will be submitted for peer review and a decision of
acceptance or otherwise will be conveyed to the authors by 15th
May 2008, or one month of receipt, whichever is later.
- Authors may contact the Editor, Mens Sana Monographs, for
further details and clarification. Email:(<mensanamonographs@hotmail.com>).
- Please check style requirements from recent issue of MSM, or
at <http://www.msmonographs.org/contributors.asp>
Authors may contact Editor for further details only in Dec 2007,
or look up <http://www.msmonographs.org/>
For Forthcoming Theme Mens Sana Monograph due for publication in
Jan 2008:
The Thirteenth Monograph: Theme Monograph: Medicine, Mental
Health, Science, Religion and Well-being. Jan 2008-Dec 2008.
ISSN 09731229. ISBN 81-89753-17-7.
Papers should be 3000-4000 words, complete with an Abstract (300
words max.), Key Words (max 5), Concluding Remarks (200 words
max.), References and suitable subheadings, including an
Introduction. Topics to be dealt with by prospective authors in
this issue are:
- Where is medicine heading?
- What medicine means to me
- What psychiatry means to me
- What is the essence of good medical practice?
- Ethics in medicine: time to sing an elegy?
- Turning points in my medical career/practice
- Medicine as it is taught and as it is practiced
- Is medicine a noble profession or a profitable industry?
- How much patient welfare and how much personal welfare?
- Medicine: to reduce distress, disability, death, or to
rake in the dollars?
- Medicine as a corporate enterprise: a welcome step?
- Medicalisation of life
- Medicine, a science or an art?
- Does and don'ts of good medical practice
- Role of money in medicine
- Balancing patient welfare with professional advancement
- How much pharma/industry influence is tolerable in
medicine?
- Medicine as treatment of diseases, or for promotion of
health?
- What Health means to me
- What patients expect, and what doctors do?
- The philosophical basis of medical practice (Indian,
Eastern and Western)
- Mainstream medicine and Complementary medicine: any
meeting points?
- Malpractice in medicine: light at the end of the tunnel?
- What science means to me
- Science, value neutrality, and human welfare
- Science and religion: meeting points and areas of
conflict
- What religion means to me
- Religion and health: complementary or contradictory
roles?
- What well being means to me
- Well-being and medicalisation: how much of each?
- Areas of collaboration between science and religion to
ensure health and well being
- Health as absence of disease and as well being: workable
models of care
- Scientific advance and human well being: conflict of
goals and approach
- What mental health means to me
- Mental health, religion and science: how much of each?
- How can Science really ensure health and well being
- Prioritising Mental Health
- Well-being and Mental Health: two sides of the same
coin?
- Poverty, Human Development and Well-Being
- Medicine, Poverty and Human Development
- The Burden of Poverty and the Glory of Human Development
- Quality of Care and Poverty
- Human Development and Patient Care
- How to Ensure 'Health For All' When Poverty Rules And
Human Development Is Sidelined
- Authors must convey their topics selected from the above
by 15Th December 2006. They maybe more than one topic for
one paper, but not more than three. Full paper for potential
publication should reach the Editor in Microsoft Word format
by 1st March 2007.
- All papers will be submitted for peer review and a
decision of acceptance or otherwise will be conveyed to the
authors by 1st May 2007.
- Authors may contact the Editor, Mens Sana Monographs,
for further details and clarification.
(email:
mensanamonographs@yahoo.co.uk).
- Please check style requirements from recent issue of MSM
(pdf available on request).
- Further details see Call for Papers at
http://www.msmonographs.org/callforpapers.asp
- Mens Sana Monographs takes part in the initiative
launched by The Council of Science Editors to have a Global
Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development. It will
publish papers on this topic in its Theme Issue of Jan 2008,
but will prepublish papers related to Poverty and Human
Development on Monday, 22 Oct 2007 to coincide with this
world wide initiative of the CSE. For details see:
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/globalthemeissue.cfm
- See also Mens Sana Monographs for more details
http://www.msmonographs.org/
Dr. Ajai Singh M.D.,
Editor,
Mens Sana Monographs,
Medicine. Mental Health. Man, And their Matrix.
Correspondence:
Mens Sana Research Foundation,
14,Shiv Kripa, Trimurty Road,
Nahur, Mulund(W), Mumbai-400080, INDIA.
http://www.msmonographs.org
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