CFP - repeated: "Biotechnology and Disability:
Spiritual,
"Biotechnology
and Disability: Spiritual, Ethical and Social Dimensions"
A call for papers for a special issue of
Journal of Religion Disability and Health
edited by
Christopher Newell, PhD University of Tasmania, Australia
&
Matt Stowe, J.D. University of Kansas, United States
Submissions are invited from contributors for a special themed issue
of the peer-reviewed Journal of Religion Disability and
Health.
The guest editors welcome contributions of original research,
commentaries, short case studies and poetry which address the trend.
Topics may include:
* Religious perspectives on biotechnology
* Genetics and personal and social identity
* Human worth, genetics, and disability
* The future of disability and humanity in the age of
genetics
* Ethical, legal, and spiritual dimensions of disability and
humanity_
Potential contributors are welcome to discuss their ideas and/or share
a short abstract with the guest editors.
Contributions should be in accordance with the style guide and
submitted directly to the guest editors.
Further details about the journal, and its aims and those about the
journal are available at:
http://www.haworthpress.com/web/JRDH/
Deadline for final
submissions is 1 May 2006.
Potential contributors are encouraged to discuss their ideas with the
editors:
Christopher Newell, PhD, School of Medicine, University of Tasmania
([log in to unmask]).
Matthew Stowe, J.D., Beach Center on Disability, University of
Kansas
([log in to unmask]).
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Christopher Newell, PhD:
Associate Professor,
Medical Education Unit,
School of Medicine,
University of Tasmania,
Private Bag 73, Hobart, Tasmania,7001, Australia.
Ph: +61 3 62264854
Fax: +61 3 62236174
Home Ph: 03 62248584
Mobile Ph: 0418545611
