Call for Papers: Special Issue
Understanding the Evidence Based movements
health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health,
Illness and Medicine
In 2003 health: intends to publish a Special Issue devoted to research and
scholarship on the topic of the Evidence Based movements. This will be
under the Guest Editorship of Michael Traynor.
The Evidence Based movements have provoked strong restatements from within
certain clinical groups about the essence of the patient-clinician
relationship. Some commentators saw the movements partly as an attempt by
clinicians to keep control of decision-making in the face of governments
set on increasing intervention in the previously relatively autonomous
professions. However, health policy in the UK and other parts of the
developed world reveals the growth of mechanisms aimed at establishing
parameters for acceptable clinical practice and a range of apparatus for
monitoring and enforcing these parameters. On another tack, some critics
have questioned the movements’ sometimes-exclusive focus on one particular
research design as unnecessarily narrow and reinforcing the cultural and
political values of particular clinical groups. Also embedded in this
phenomenon is a staging of the confrontation between science and progress
on the one hand and myth and reaction on the other.
In short, there are many reasons why this is an appropriate time to review
the status of the Evidence Based movements.
Papers are invited for submission to this special issue of health: to be
published in July 2003. Papers that focus upon implementation or refusal to
implement ranging through to more philosophical analyses of these movements
are welcome. The closing date for submissions is 30 September 2002.
Enquiries to Dr Michael Traynor, Centre for Policy in Nursing Research,
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, LONDON WC1E
7HT, UK. E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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