Monash Bioethics Review
Published by the Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash Bioethics Review is Australia's oldest peer reviewed bioethics journal. Each issue contains several original articles by leading commentators on bioethics. Also included is an Ethics Committee Supplement, featuring original articles and news items on issues of particular interest to members of human research ethics committees. In addition, there are book reviews, news on scientific and legal developments relevant to bioethics, and an Ethics Committee Reflection. Symposia on current bioethical issues are also a regular feature of the journal. Monash Bioethics Review has a wide readership which includes bioethicists, medical practitioners, medical researchers, and ethics committee members.
Monash Bioethics Review is edited by Dr Linda Barclay and Assoc. Prof. Justin Oakley.
We are very pleased that, commencing with 2009 issues, Monash Bioethics Review is now published both online and in print by Monash University ePress. Please browse the first issue, 28:1, (free of charge) via:
http://www.epress.monash.edu/mber
Call for Papers
Special Issue: Ethical issues in health care for children and young people
Guest editor: Assoc. Prof. Lynn Gillam, Children’s Bioethics Centre, Royal Children’s Hospital; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; University of Melbourne.
We invite submission of papers for a special issue of Monash Bioethics Review, which will focus on ethical issues in health care for children and young people. Papers may relate to any aspect of health care – medical, nursing, allied health, in institutional or community based settings. We are interested in both theoretical discussions of ethical concepts and construct, and in empirical studies which shed light on ethically difficult or disputed situations or concepts. Themes could include parental consent and refusal of treatment, competence of children to consent or refuse, truth-telling to children, experimental treatment, parental preference for alternative therapies, access to limited resources, non-voluntary treatment for psychiatric disorders, medication for behavioural problems, infant circumcision and many more.
If you have an idea for paper and wish to check its suitability, please contact Lynn via l.gillam@unimelb.edu.au.
Submissions are due by March 31st, 2010.
Manuscripts marked ‘special issue’ to be submitted to: MBR.editors@arts.monash.edu.au.
It is anticipated that the special issue will be published in December 2010.
Contributions
Contributions of original articles for publication in other issues of Monash Bioethics Review are welcome, and should be sent to the editors via:
MBR.editors@arts.monash.edu.au
or
Editors, Monash Bioethics Review
Centre for Human Bioethics
Building 11
Monash University VIC 3800
Australia.
Tel: +61 3 990 54275.
Fax: +61 3 990 53279.
Subscriptions
For all details regarding subscriptions, please visit this Monash University ePress site:
http://www.epress.monash.edu/pricingandordering.html#mber
With any queries, please contact Sarah Cannon at the ePress via epress@lib.monash.edu.au.
For additional contact details for Sarah, please see http://www.epress.monash.edu/contacts.html
Back issues
Here are tables of contents and an order form for recent issues:
Other back issues of Monash Bioethics Review, and its predecessor Bioethics News, are available for purchase from the Centre. Enquiries should be directed to:
Melva Renshaw
Centre for Human Bioethics
Building 11
Monash University VIC 3800
Australia.
Tel: +61 3 990 54279.
Fax: +61 3 990 53279.
Email: melva.renshaw@arts.monash.edu.au