CFP: The Ethics of Care: Moral Issues in Neonatal/Pediatric Care

On November 20, 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a landmark for human rights. Here for the first time was a treaty that sought to address the particular needs of children and to set minimum standards for the protection of their rights. It is the first international treaty to guarantee civil and political rights as well as economic, social, and cultural rights. Even though the importance of the issue of children’s rights has been formally acknowledged across the world, we are still, very far from a deep ethical reflection about this theme, in particular with regards to the medical field.

The topic of this special issue of our journal "MEDIC. Metodologia didattica e innovazione clinica"  is “The Ethics of Care: Moral Issues in Neonatal/Pediatric Care”

We accept papers (maximum length 45000 characters, spaces included) dealing with the following topics (but not only):

-          Ethics of Care

-          Ethics of Communication between Physicians and Patients/Family

-          Medical Ethics

-          Family lifestyles and children’s health

-          Patient/Family Education

-          Right/Duty to Child’s Information

-          Cultural Models of Health: Child’s Health Image in Media

-          Bioethical Questions (Child Euthanasia; Premature Baby Resuscitation; Informed Consent; After-Birth Abortion; Infanticide etc.)

Authors should send an abstract (max 500 words) to the following e-mail address by February 1st 2015: [email protected] (or: [email protected]), with the indication “Medic Journal - The Ethics of Care” in the subject heading. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed and the acceptance or refusal of the submission will be notified by February 10th 2015. The Editorial board reserves the faculty not to accept the final drafts that do not correspond to submitted abstracts, or do not pass the further selection process to which final drafts will be submitted. Moreover, the Editorial board reserves the faculty to ask the Authors to revise their contributions to fit them to the referees’ evaluations and/or editorial standards.

Abstracts and contributions can be submitted in Italian and English. The final draft must be submitted by May 1st, 2015, to undergo the further selection process: the definitive answer on acceptance and eventual requested revisions will be given by May 30th, 2015.

Submitted papers are expected to meet the following requirements:

- All papers must be accompanied with an abstract (150 words) and 4 keywords.

- Papers must be prepared for a blind review – authors’ personal information should be included in a separate attachment only.

The scientific journal MEDIC New Series, Methodology & Education for Clinical Innovation  distinguishes itself for its global and harmonious approach to Healthcare and Biomedical education issues. It wishes to foster the dialogue between the so called two cultures, the scientific and the humanistic one, in  its effort to offer occasions of reflection and of confrontation in the light of a medical neohumanism  which sees in the human being its point of cohesion and balance. It is a multidisciplinary scientific journal publishing literature reviews, original papers, editorials, letters to the Editor on topics of special interest as well as book reviews.
The journal intends to set up a space of comparison at an international level through the publication of papers relevant to the following sections: Methodology, Epidemiology, Clinical Medicine and Basic Research, Medical Education, Philosophy of  Science, Health Sociology and Health Economics, Biomedical Engineering, Ethics and Anthropology, Medical History.
The journal’s most important objectives is that of opening a debate on subject-matters of great scientific importance in biomedicine, tackling them from different view points through the contribution of various authors. Thus MEDIC New Series wishes to offer to scholars dealing with important issues such as health and sickness, life and death, pain and suffering, the opportunity of having a debate with colleagues of other disciplines so to make such discussion wider than it would be possible from the view point of a single specialty.