The Editors of Bioethics are pleased to announce a special issue in 2012 on ethical issues of chronic diseases, with guest editors Ross Upshur and Jennifer Gibson, Joint Centre for Bioethics University of Toronto. The submission deadline is Feb. 1, 2011. We invite submissions on all aspects of this topic. Issues of special consideration include but are not limited to:
Is there a morally relevant distinction between infectious and chronic diseases?
What are the moral obligations of governments, funding agencies and other sectors to establish policies responding to chronic diseases?
Global disparities in health system response to chronic diseases
Ethical considerations in end of life, palliative care and advance care planning for non-cancer chronic diseases such as congestive heart failure, chronic kidney disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Ethical considerations in the care of chronic mental health disorders, particularly those that impair cognition such as dementia
Priority setting considerations for health systems in terms of balancing commitments to prevention, community, primary care, acute care and long term care
Ethical issues associated with demographic transition and the rise of multi-morbidity
Ethical issues of pediatric patients transitioning into adulthood with chronic disease burdens
Ethical issues associated with care givers
Ethical issues associated with patient empowerment
Ethical issues associated with rehabilitation populations
The editors welcome early discussion of brief proposals and/or abstracts by email to both: Ross Upshur ross.upshur@utoronto.ca Jennifer Gibson Jennifer.gibson@utoronto.ca
Upon submission authors should include full contact details and a few lines of biographical information in a separate electronic file. We discourage papers of more than 5000 words.
For further submission requirements, format and referencing style, refer to the Author Guidelines on the Bioethics website: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0269-9702
Manuscripts should be submitted to Bioethics online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/biot.
Please ensure that you select manuscript type ‘Special Issue’ and state that it is for the Chronicity, Special Issue when prompted.
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