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Medicine, Mental Health, Science, Religion And Well-being  

Call For Papers For Theme Monograph 2009

Women’s Issues

  1. Health Issues Peculiar To Women: An Overview
  2. Working Mothers: How Much Working, How Much Mothers, And Where Is The Womanhood?
  3. Pregnancy and Care: Medical And Psychological Issues
  4. Premenstrual Tension: The Problem And The Remedy
  5. Rape: Its Victim, The Perpetrator, And Society
  6. End Of Life Issues In Women
  7. The Institution Of Marriage: Serious Breaches In Its Walls?
  8. Bioethical Issues In Abortion, Surrogacy And IVF
  9. Women And Mental Health
  10. TV Viewing And Violence In Children: The Evidence For And Against
  11. Dowry Deaths: A Social Epidemic
  12. Women, Nudity And Pornography
  13. Teenage Pregnancy And Psychological Sequelae
  14. Marriage And Career: A Delicate Balancing Act For Women
  15. Menopause: Medical And Psychological Problems And Solutions
  16. Old Age And Womanhood
  17. Marriage, Adjustment And Self-Identity From a Feminine Perspective
  18. Empowerment Of Women
  19. Self-Actualisation And Gender
  20. Womanhood: Individual, Social-Cultural And Ideological Perspectives
  21. The Female Physique And Psyche
  22. Sexual Abuse And Exploitation At Workplace
  23. Female Marginalisation And Exploitation
  24. Women Versus Women
  25. Female Sexuality
  26. Daughter, Wife And Mother: Indian And Cross-Cultural Perspective
  27. Women, Poverty And Exploitation
  28. The Feminist Perspective
  29. Wife-Battering
  30. The Concept Of Femininity Across Cultures And History
  31. The Psychological Problems Of Widowhood And Divorce
  32. Spinsters, Young And Old
  33. When The Woman Supercedes The Man: In Office, Marriage, Politics And Family
  34. The Female Orgasm
  35. Women In Films, Soaps, Ads And Fiction: Stereotypy Reinforced?
  36. When Women Take To Conventionally Accepted Male Professions
  37. The Problem Of Prostitution
  38. Women Working In The Glamour World: Problems And Opportunities
  39. The Female Child
  40. Women In Art: Feminine Creativity
  41. The Female In Religious Scriptures: Goddesses, Temptresses And Property
  42. Marital Infidelity And The Female
  43. Careers That Suit Women: The Evidence For And Against
  44. Ads, Media And Female Vulnerability
  45. Do Women Look At Issues Differently Than Men?
  46. Aggression, Passivity And Femininity
  47. What Women Consider Beautiful: The Feminine Aesthetics
  48. Psychologists And Psychiatrists On Women And Femininity
  49. Women And The Invisible Glass Ceiling
  50. Gossip, Kitty Parties, And Bitching
  51. Nurturance, Compassion And Womanhood
  52. 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:

  1. Where is medicine heading?
  2. What medicine means to me
  3. What psychiatry means to me
  4. What is the essence of good medical practice?
  5. Ethics in medicine: time to sing an elegy?
  6. Turning points in my medical career/practice
  7. Medicine as it is taught and as it is practiced
  8. Is medicine a noble profession or a profitable industry?
  9. How much patient welfare and how much personal welfare?
  10. Medicine: to reduce distress, disability, death, or to rake in the dollars?
  11. Medicine as a corporate enterprise: a welcome step?
  12. Medicalisation of life
  13. Medicine, a science or an art?
  14. Does and don'ts of good medical practice
  15. Role of money in medicine
  16. Balancing patient welfare with professional advancement
  17. How much pharma/industry influence is tolerable in medicine?
  18. Medicine as treatment of diseases, or for promotion of health?
  19. What Health means to me
  20. What patients expect, and what doctors do?
  21. The philosophical basis of medical practice (Indian, Eastern and Western)
  22. Mainstream medicine and Complementary medicine: any meeting points?
  23. Malpractice in medicine: light at the end of the tunnel?
  24. What science means to me
  25. Science, value neutrality, and human welfare
  26. Science and religion: meeting points and areas of conflict
  27. What religion means to me
  28. Religion and health: complementary or contradictory roles?
  29. What well being means to me
  30. Well-being and medicalisation: how much of each?
  31. Areas of collaboration between science and religion to ensure health and well being
  32. Health as absence of disease and as well being: workable models of care
  33. Scientific advance and human well being: conflict of goals and approach
  34. What mental health means to me
  35. Mental health, religion and science: how much of each?
  36. How can Science really ensure health and well being
  37. Prioritising Mental Health
  38. Well-being and Mental Health: two sides of the same coin?
  39. Poverty, Human Development and Well-Being
  40. Medicine, Poverty and Human Development
  41. The Burden of Poverty and the Glory of Human Development
  42. Quality of Care and Poverty
  43. Human Development and Patient Care
  44. 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.

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Mens Sana Research Foundation,
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Nahur, Mulund(W), Mumbai-400080, INDIA.
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