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Volume Abstract: To Be Titled Upon Receipt of Chapter Abstracts - Hillary J. Haldane (University of California- Santa Barbara) and Jennifer R. Wies (Xavier University)

As our attention to structural violence and inequalities continues to grow, our understandings of local level violence and the systems responsive to such violence must also develop. Through theorizing the “local” and placing the local at the center of inquiry, this volume examines ethnographic examples of the front-line political economies of gender-based violence service provision. By exploring the situations of front line workers and local sites of service provision, this text reorients the analysis of gender-based violence to the interface between the state and the victims: the front-line workers. By recentering the analysis to the local, we hope to revitalize our studies of front line workers in the gender-based violence field. This volume contains three sections that represent three fields of service provision to gender-based violence victims. The first is the medical and/or public health arena, where gender-based violence victims and front line workers direct service providers interact at the level of physician-patient, medical advocate-victim, and mental health counselor-client. The second point of contact is located in the legal and criminal justice system, where gender-based violence victims encounter lawyers, legal advocates, and law enforcement personnel. The final intersection of analysis is that of the education system. Education systems produce gender-based violence
workers in the classroom, via conferences trainings, and through orientation into organizations working to provide services to victims of gender-based violence. In addition, the intersection between the education system and gender-based violence workers serves as a site of examining the creation of public education and awareness regarding gender-based violence and allows an analysis of ways that gender-based violence issues are framed for public consumption. The significance of this volume collection is that it brings together scholars in a conversation that might not necessarily be in dialogue with each other. In this volume scholars connect their work to macro theories of structural violence and illuminate the disjuncture between transnational theory and local practice. This framework mimics a larger framework of front line gender-based violence work that is conducted at multiple sites of service. As front line workers strive to coordinate services to victims of gender- based violence, the scholars in this volume follow their example and transcend disciplinary artificial boundaries to mirror what is occurring “on the ground.” Beginning with an introduction that reviews the Anthropological work focusing on gender-based violence and front line
service provision, the volume presents four essays within each of the three sections. Each section contains a summary of the essays and highlights the possibilities for theoretical and practical collaborations. The concluding chapter demonstrates the theoretical and applied benefits of an analysis of structural violence from the vantage point of front-line labor.
Please submit a note of interest as soon as possible to Jennifer Wies, PhD (Xavier University) at wiesj@xavier.edu. Abstract drafts will be due by year's end.

Exploring the Cultural Politics of Infectious Diseases, ICAES 2008, July 15-23, Kunming, China
This panel will explore the cultural politics of global infectious diseases: how they are named, understood, and managed. Diseases are not free-standing biological events; they are discovered, made visible, translated and put to use in a variety of socio-political and cultural ways. Frenzied media attention to the transnational dimension of pandemics such as HIV/AIDS and SARS in recent years underscores the means through which infectious diseases become conceptualized in global terms. This comes at a time when changes associated with globalization, including the accelerating pace at which goods, capital and humans cross national boundaries, are often discussed through metaphors of infection and disease. In this era of proliferating real and imagined infections, states, non-government organizations, and individual citizens are increasingly called upon to manage the risks associated with these new threats. The recent decision on the part of the Indonesian government to withhold sharing bird flu samples from the international community is one example of new the cultural politics of infectious disease control.
This panel will discuss emerging strategies and techniques deployed in the name of controlling disease. How do the ways in which particular infectious diseases become identified as risks influence both the conceptualization and efficacy of responses? What kinds of citizens, populations, or institutions are being protected, and from what? Does a focus on state responses adequately capture the range of practices occurring in the name of stopping the spread of infectious diseases?
Please send your paper title with an abstract (no more than 350 words) to Theresa MacPhail at tmacphail@berkeley.edu by August 5, 2007.

Anthropology & Aging Quarterly is accepting submissions for a special issue on aging and long term care.
See details here. Deadline extended: August 15, 2007.

From Medical Advocacy to the Production of Health-Related Social Engineering
The sociology of collective action and mobilization is a recent stream of research in political science. NGOs, social movements, humanitarian action, the formation of new mobilizations (such as the homeless-persons movement), the transformation of feminist claims, etc. are typical of this research area. Numerous analyses have examined how these mobilizations occur, the strategies implemented to promote their actions and the framing of collective action. Persuasion issues are also an important part of the general context of these studies. More specifically, the double problem of the strength of claims made in academic discourse and the scientific objectivation of the claims forms the core of what defines the scope and effectiveness of collective action. These questions were first asked in gender studies. Many investigators have attempted to understand the role of biological sciences in the construction and perpetuation of gender inequality, and, conversely, trace how sexual-based social disparities have been conveyed in the scientific literature. Beyond the social entry in expert discourses, this issue of Quaderni will explore how claims made by advocates find a permanent place in discourse and are progressively objectivized, particularly in administrative and legal practices (whether in public or private spheres).
Medical anthropology: a contribution to the sociology of collective action
This approach requires that the claims of advocates are considered not as intrinsically subjective but as a product that can attain a degree of scientific legitimacy through concrete practices. To this end, one examines the transformation of claims into a stabilized objectivity by drawing on work conducted in other fields, apparently far removed from political science. Accordingly, we will pay particular attention to the methods and objects of medical anthropology methods as they are currently defined. The objective here is to show how this discipline may be of interest to and enrich the sociology of social mobilizations and public action. But why medical anthropology?
One clear issue in medical anthropology has been to understand how to apply analytical tools to contemporary scientific medicine; i.e. to understand scientific discourse and emerging practices like any other unfamiliar or external object. Consequently, the establishment of a sustainable scientific objectivity is by definition the result of a process shaped within a local context, driven by specific stakeholders. If the research laboratory is a preferred object for anthropologists because of its esoteric nature, the production of a coherent system of standards has also been studied following other demarcations. Thus, the development of practices such as organ transplants, genetic diagnostics or hormonal therapies is analyzed according to social demarcations established by different social groups between health and disease, life and death, or men and women. It is therefore the entire rationality claimed by a group that forms the core of a critical analysis, showing, on the one hand, that the triumph of the modern Western medicine cannot be understood without taking into account ethical constructions, representations of women and local material cultures, or, on the other hand, that the success of new technologies and the other components of modern medicine provide a remarkable image of social and cultural phenomena in our societies. In addition to providing a better understanding of different intertwined social rationalities, medical anthropology has opened the door to the establishment of a multifaceted and long history of social objectivations, marked by transformations of material cultures and local consensuses that are continually being renegotiated. Collective mobilizations are therefore not simply the expression of a claim, they may also be an emerging objectivity (Introduction, Virginie Tournay (dir.) – La gouvernance des innovations médicales, PUF, 2007, Forthcoming).
Objectifying social mobilizations: toward a typology of forms of collective action
With this observation and independent of the object, the forms of persuasion developed by advocacy groups may lead to a full social integration of their claim as standardized guidelines or political rules. This call for papers focuses on how this leads to objectivation. It asks us to consider tangible and recurring bureaucratic objectivity outcomes, as well as the practical operators that govern this bureaucratic construction and ensure that is maintained over time. Many forms of action can be described, depending on the kind of social mobilization under consideration. For example, patient associations that call for the creation of a new nosological category (this was the case for myopathy and is still true for spasmophily) must above all convince a limited group of people (the scientific community) of the basis of their claim in order to obtain medical recognition. Similarly, the construction of AIDS as a group of predefined symptoms regularly mobilized informal forms of expertise. In another, similar case, the 2003 French heat wave produced a sustainable objectivation that required a wider circle of actors. Actually, to gain support, the claims made by emergency physicians that a weather event had provoked an abnormally high death rate required directly convincing political actors of the strength of their claim. We can therefore conclude that the credibility of a public health statement does not require the same level of proof as the announcement of a new category of disease. A third type of process for objectivation: certain social groups make moral statements to guarantee that certain parts of the human body are protected. For emerging medical practices such as cell therapy, ethical claims result in the establishment of tangible collective devices known as consent forms and, more generally speaking, practice guidelines. This form of collective action results from a succession of deliberations in various arenas. Far from being thorough, this list of forms of social mobilization highlights another type of concern that this issue of Quaderni will try to address: how do we understand failure or success in the objectivation of social claims, whether they begin in patient associations, a given type of health professional, or actors in civil society? So, taking our first example: why was the objectivation process for symptoms today known as “myopathy” successful (recognition by doctors, public policies, Telethon campaigns), as compared to spasmophilia, which still constitutes a poorly defined collection of symptoms that provokes controversy within the medical community?
Combining the sociology of collective mobilizations and the sociology of public action by studying the production of a shared and sustainable conviction
Studying this process leads to a very political set of issues that involve following action frameworks built by groups of actors and spokespersons as they make their claims. It provides a major point of interest. Understanding the claim objectivation process in interest groups is a means for combining the sociology of collective mobilizations and the sociology of public action, since it presupposes a link between the political power of claims made by advocates and their potential integration into public devices.
Studying the implementation of medical objects (medical innovations: cellular therapy, new dsciplines: cancerology, etc.) on the basis of social claims is a relevant point of entry for grasping how social groups will be able to convince, i.e. produce shared collective evidence that can be directly integrated into public policies in the form of precepts or concrete operators. This call for papers is open to all areas of the social sciences and the humanities that are concerned with the objects mentioned above. However, it will only consider proposals adopting an anthropological approach (i.e., describing collectives and material cultures and their relationships with the human body as healthy, sick or transforming) that acts as the point of departure for strategies of persuasion. The proposals will be considered support for a theoretical reconsideration of how durable objectivity is formed. Particular attention will be paid to specific devices implemented by actors to prove the veracity of their claims. Among these devices, reference will be made to all the analyses surrounding the constitution of associative groups, the production of leadership, the generalization of administrative and scientific measurement tools, political technologies of persuasion (such as voting), the televised production of scientific performance, axioms inherited from the feminist movement, etc.
Virginie Tournay. For Quaderni Journal.
Abstracts shall not exceed 3,000 characters. In the body of the e-mail message, please provide the contributor's name(s), department and professional affiliations, address, phone number and e-mail address.
Proposals may be made in English or in French.
Abstract deadline: June 30, 2007.
All abstracts and proposals must be submitted using an electronic submission form.
Send submissions to: vtournay@yahoo.fr
Submission of accepted papers (in English or French) by May 1, 2008

Six Edited Volumes: Poverty, Human Rights, Social Capital, Globalisation, Environment and Development Studies
Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (New Delhi: India) would soon publish six multi-volume anthologies edited by Dr Prasenjit Maiti et al. The thrust areas of these proposed Edited Volumes are Poverty, Human Rights, Social Capital, Globalisation, Environment and Development Studies.
You are requested to kindly contribute your individual and / or joint papers to this book series and oblige. Previously published papers can also be reprinted along with their earlier publication history provided there are no Copyright restrictions to do so.
Best Practices and Lessons Learnt (that may be replicated elsewhere) from Research Projects in these areas may be adequately reflected in your papers. We are interested in papers that deal with broad theoretical issues and general empirical concerns rather than case studies / area studies that are limited to contextual experiences.
The decision of the Editors with regard to acceptance of papers shall be final. Please send your papers and Brief Biography (following the Model Biography appended) by e-mail to the Publisher Dr KR Gupta at <editorial@atlanticbooks.com> as MS Word attachments as soon as convenient.
Kindly also send your complete mailing address along with your electronic submissions to ensure timely delivery of your complimentary copies. You should include an Executive Summary, Key Words and End Notes / References in your papers.
The length of papers is not limited. Please circulate this Call for Papers among professional colleagues and research associates who may be kindly interested to send their academic submissions to this multi-volume book series. There is no stipulated deadline but your papers should be sent at an early date to the Publisher to ensure their inclusion in Volume One.
Each contributor shall receive a complimentary author copy from the Publisher while joint authors shall receive a single copy for the First Author. All publication-related inquiries should be addressed to Dr Gupta. Co-authors can obtain copies of the Volumes at 50% discount on the printed price of the Volumes and free packing and postage by Registered Post / Courier anywhere in India against advance payment by Bank Draft payable at New Delhi (INDIA) in favour of M/s ATLANTIC PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS (P) LTD. Postage would have to be borne by the person ordering the books if these are to be sent outside India. You may visit the Publisher’s website at www.atlanticbooks.com for any further information.
Model Biography
Dr Prasenjit Maiti (b. 1971) <pmaiti@vsnl.com> is a political sociologist. He taught at the Department of Political Science of the University of Burdwan before joining the Development Sector. He was on secondment as a Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Federalism of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His first book focused on the problems of governance while his second book dealt with development discourses. He presently works as a Project Manager for CES ( India) Pvt Ltd.

Poverty, Human Rights, Social Capital and Globalisation
Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (New Delhi: India) would soon publish four multi-volume anthologies edited by Dr Prasenjit Maiti et al. The thrust areas of these proposed Edited Volumes are Poverty, Human Rights, Social Capital and Globalisation.
You are requested to kindly contribute your individual and / or joint papers to this book series and oblige. Previously published papers can also be reprinted along with their earlier publication history provided there are no Copyright restrictions to do so.
Best Practices and Lessons Learnt (that may be replicated elsewhere) from Research Projects in these areas may be adequately reflected in your papers. We are interested in papers that deal with broad theoretical issues and general empirical concerns rather than case studies / area studies that are limited to contextual experiences.
The decision of the Editors with regard to acceptance of papers shall be final. Please send your papers and Brief Biography (following the Model Biography appended) by e-mail to the Publisher Dr KR Gupta at <editorial@atlanticbooks.com> as MS Word attachments as soon as convenient.
Kindly also send your complete mailing address along with your electronic submissions to ensure timely delivery of your complimentary copies. You should include an Executive Summary, Key Words and End Notes / References in your papers.
The length of papers is not limited. Please circulate this Call for Papers among professional colleagues and research associates who may be kindly interested to send their academic submissions to this multi-volume book series. There is no stipulated deadline but your papers should be sent at an early date to the Publisher to ensure their inclusion in Volume One.
Each contributor shall receive a complimentary author copy from the Publisher while joint authors shall receive a single copy for the First Author. All publication-related inquiries should be addressed to Dr Gupta. Co-authors can obtain copies of the Volumes at 50% discount on the printed price of the Volumes and free packing and postage by Registered Post / Courier anywhere in India against advance payment by Bank Draft payable at New Delhi (INDIA) in favour of M/s ATLANTIC PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS (P) LTD. Postage would have to be borne by the person ordering the books if these are to be sent outside India. You may visit the Publisher’s website at www.atlanticbooks.com for any further information.
Model Biography
Dr Prasenjit Maiti (b. 1971) <pmaiti@vsnl.com> is a political sociologist. He taught at the Department of Political Science of the University of Burdwan before joining the Development Sector. He was on secondment as a Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Federalism of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His first book focused on the problems of governance while his second book dealt with development discourses. He presently works as a Project Manager for CES ( India) Pvt Ltd.

Immigration and Health Disparities: Case Studies of Survival and Resilience
Proposed panel for the AAA Annual Meeting, November 28-December 2, 2007, Washington DC
This panel addresses immigrants’ stories of survival and resilience in dealing with physical and mental ailments vis-à-vis the social and health obstacles imposed by organized medicine. In a global context of reduced public health services, restricted coverage and eligibility for state-sponsored health insurance, this panel calls for an in-depth reflection on the impact of disparities on immigrants’ health outcomes and health strategies. Papers in this panel weave the stories of immigrants as both patients and caregivers. Exclusion from mainstream health systems are intertwined with accounts of informal sources of support, with attention to the connections between structural determinants and immigrants’ staggering tales of resistance. In particular, we will examine immigrants’ (access) barriers to health care (e.g., institutional and financial) and the role of informal social webs that help them navigate health care services and find alternative sources of care. Papers will explore the challenges faced by immigrant caregivers, as well as non-biomedical health practitioners, in taking care of vulnerable immigrant populations in developed nations. We also welcome work that includes comparisons among countries.
If interested in participating, please send an abstract to Anahí Viladrich (aviladri@hunter.cuny.edu) and Julia Cottle (jacottle@ucdavis.edu).

3rd International Congress on Traditional Medicine and Materia Medica
17 to 20 July 2007
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Contact name: Malinda Abdullah
Email: malinda@protemp.com.my
For information see:
http://www.ictmmm2007.org/
We welcome papers on traditional uses of medicinal plants, history of medicine and botany, ethnopharmacological and ethnobotanical research from all Countries.
Organized by: Inter-Islamic Network for Tropical Medicine; Traditional Medicine and Materia Medica Research Center S. Beheshti Medical Science Univ., IRAN.

Kroeber Anthropological Society
Founded in 1949, the Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers is the oldest graduate student-run Anthropology publication in the United States. We publish articles in the general field of anthropology (and all its subdisciplines) that are of theoretical, descriptive, or practical interest. We welcome submissions by anthropology students, faculty, and professionals. All submissions for our general volumes, published in winter, spring, and summer, are evaluated through a blind peer-review process.
Papers must be sent directly to:
Kroeber Anthropological Society
Department of Anthropology
232 Kroeber Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720-3710
E-mail: kroas@OCF.berkeley.edu
We are now accepting submissions for the Spring and Fall 2007 volumes.
Submission Guidelines:
• Papers should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages, excluding references, in Word or other standard format.
• A short abstract should accompany the paper.
• Two hardcopies and one digital copy (by disk or email) must be included.
• Please use parenthetical citations and endnotes. For all other style questions (including bibliography norms, follow the American Anthropologist style guide with backup reference to The Chicago Manual of Style. Titles of works within the essay should be in italics.
• A separate title page should provide the author’s name, institution/title, address, and contact information.
• Any papers still requiring significant editing will not be considered for publication.
We also welcome proposals for interviews with distinguished anthropologists and book reviews of recent publications. Please contact us directly with suggestions.
For additional information and contents of past journals, please consult our web page at: http://sscl.berkeley.edu/~kas/ or call 510-642-6932.

15th Sociology of Health and Illness monograph
Proposals are invited for the fifteenth volume in the monograph series to be published by Sociology of Health and Illness in conjunction with Blackwell Publishers. The Board of the journal considers all proposals for the Monograph series at the first board meeting of each year. The monograph will be 65-70,000 words in length comprising contributions of approximately 6,500 words each and will appear both as a regular issue of the journal and in book form. The planned publication date is September 2009.
The proposal needs to contain the following elements.
1. Justification of the proposed topic in terms of its academic merits, how it fits into the monograph series and how links between medical sociology and other substantive areas will be established.
2. A statement of 3 or 4 themes that might be addressed and how these might be broken down into sub-themes.
3. Consideration of the proposal’s appeal to: regular readers of the journal and to readers who might buy it as a book; medical sociologists and to readers from sister disciplines; sociologists from continental Europe, North America, the UK, Australia & New Zealand and the rest of the world.
4. Competitor publications should be noted and the distinctiveness of the proposal explained in relation to any such competition.
5. An account of how the call for papers would be advertised to reach a range of contributors to include junior and well established authors and international range of contributors.
6. A list of potential contributors who might be approached.
7. A short biographical note about the proposed editors.
Proposals can be discussed informally with the Monograph Editor (Hannah Bradby of the University of Warwick, UK: email: H.Bradby@warwick.ac.uk) before submitting the final document.

Famine and Mass Violence
Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH
September 21-23, 2008
Famine and mass violence frequently go hand in hand. Unfortunately, scholars of famine and scholars of mass violence often deal with different questions resulting in a wide lacuna in research and the methodology for analyzing connections between famines and violence. Famine specialists mostly deal with socioeconomic questions, with people as economic subjects, with the working of markets and speculation, food distribution, or deficiencies of state intervention. Entangled in the availability vs. entitlement debate, they care less for power relationships or war-related situations, although famines often occur during wartime or civil conflict. Genocide experts view certain famines as state-organized. Such scholars are interested in motivations of violence, lack of relief efforts, escape prevention, or special policies victimizing refugees. They may miss out on the participatory dimension of famines: social and economic networks, profiteering, or family relations. This conference seeks to bring together both famine experts and genocide specialists to engage in a dialogue with each other, first during the conference and later in a collective volume resulting from the meeting.
We welcome proposals that try to bring the role of social forces and governments in the emergence of famines together into coherent frameworks, whether they put more emphasis on the “famine” or the “violence” side. Both case studies and theoretical approaches are welcome. Proposals should consist of a one page abstract of the paper, a brief curriculum vitae or biographical sketch, as well as contact information including name, title, institution or affiliation, mailing address, contact phone number and e-mail address. Proposals should be sent via email by October 1, 2007 to both of the conference organizers:
Christian Gerlach
Department of History
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
hcg3+@pitt.edu
Helene J. Sinnreich
Judaic and Holocaust Studies
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555
hjsinnreich@ysu.edu

The Culture of AIDS: Hope and Healing Through the Arts in Africa
Edited by Gregory Barz (Vanderbilt) and Judah Cohen (Indiana)
African Soundscapes Series, Temple University Press
Gregory Barz, general editor
Introduction
Today many people on the African continent dance their disease and sing for life in their response to AIDS, a pandemic that has deep cultural effects on individuals, communities, and nations. The response (and responsibility) of the arts is significant and path breaking as individuals and communities make meaning out the effects the disease has on their lives. The arts contribute in many ways to localized medical interventions, therapeutic and palliative care, as well as providing essential information regarding testing, care, and treatment of both HIV and AIDS.
General Information
The Culture of AIDS in Africa is a proposed volume of essays drawing on contemporary scholarship related to the roles of the arts—music, dance, drama, the visual arts (and other forms of expressive culture). In addition to soliciting new scholarship on the proposed topic, previously published materials related to “the culture of AIDS” will be considered for inclusion in the volume. Other creative efforts (previously published or new poetry, song texts, artworks in all media, etc.) will also be consider for inclusion in the volume. This call for submission of articles and contributions is targeted to scholars, performing artists, activists, government officials, community leaders, NGOs, and those working at the grassroots. The volume will thus provide a forum for reflection on the role of the arts in the very necessary interdisciplinary, interactive, and interdependent worlds in which AIDS exists today in Africa.
Publication Plans
The projected publication date is late 2007, early 2008. The completed manuscript will be submitted for publication review in spring 2007 to Temple University Press’s African Soundscapes Series.
Submission Details
Please contact the editors via email with proposals for work to be included in The Culture of AIDS in Africa. Proposals for traditional articles (of variable length, from brief to extended) are welcome as are other creative responses (transcriptions of interviews, translations of recorded or unpublished song texts, etc.). Suggestions for non-traditional materials (song texts, artwork, etc.) are also encouraged.
Email: Gregory.Barz@Vanderbilt.edu —and— cohenjm@indiana.edu
About the Editors
Gregory Barz is co-editor of two volumes of essays: Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology (Oxford) and Mashindano! Competitive Music Performance in East Africa (Mkuki na Nyota). In addition, he is the author of three books: Singing for Life: HIV/AIDS and Music in Uganda (Routledge), Music in East Africa: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Oxford), Performing Religion: Negotiating Past and Present in Kwaya Music of Tanzania (Rodopi). He has engaged field research in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa. He is also the general editor of the African Soundscapes book series published by Temple University Press and served as African Music editor for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and as Recording Review editor for the journal World of Music. He is associate professor of ethnomusicology and anthropology at the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University (USA).
Judah M. Cohen has researched, written about, and taught on music and AIDS in Africa and the United States since 2004. He has conducted fieldwork in Uganda, the United States, Israel, and the US Virgin Islands, and has authored the book Through the Sands of Time: A History of the Jewish Community of St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands (Brandeis) as well as numerous articles on music, ideology and history in Jewish life. Cohen serves as Lou and Sybil Mervis Professor of Jewish Culture and assistant professor of folklore and ethnomusicology at Indiana University.

Context * the journal recognizing student health professionals engaged in their
communities * seeks original student papers to be published bi-annually.
Context, The Journal of Health Students Taking Action Together and the Student Health Alliance (www.contextjournal.org) is the nation's first student-run, online, peer-reviewed journal that highlights the exceptional work of health students in the community. Context publishes the work of graduate-level students across the United States and Canada who strive to improve the health of our communities in a variety of modalities including: policy research, program evaluation, community partnership, and patient empowerment. The journal seeks papers that address health issues confronted by students in their communities such as: Reflections on how community service, patient advocacy, or participatory research impact growing health professionals personally and professionally; Best Practices leaving a "road map" behind for students addressing similar health issues who may learn from those that came before rather than redesigning the wheel; Program Evaluations that hold standards to community work so that it may become ever more refined, measurably successful, and prestigious; Curricular Reform Descriptions proposing or describing changes to formal curricula that incorporate the community; Analysis of Policy (real or proposed) identifying key barriers to change and implications of such policies for communities.
Papers are accepted on a rolling-basis. To submit your paper, please go to www.contextjournal.org and read our submission guidelines within the About Us
Section. For more information: Dana M. Lee, MPH, Publisher, 678-637-6923, dana@contextjournal.org

Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine will be an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that will encompass all aspects of the philosophy of medicine and biology, including the ethical aspects of clinical practice and research. It will also consider papers at the intersection of medicine and humanities, including the history of medicine, that are relevant to contemporary philosophy of medicine and bioethics. The journal will publish research articles, reviews, editorials, commentaries, and case reports. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine looks forward to receiving your submissions; please use our online submission system [http://www.peh-med.com/manuscript/] or contact Dr Dan Stein, the Editor-in-Chief, for more information [dan.stein@curie.uct.ac.za].

The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal
The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal, is seeking book reviewers. Our journal reviews a wide variety of books from the fields of history, cultural studies, literature, sociology, anthropology, policy studies, and medicine that relate to the use, regulation, and cultural significance of alcohol and other drugs. While we welcome potential reviewers from any field, we currently are in particular need of specialists in regions outside of North America. If you might be interested in reviewing for us, please send a brief email describing your area of specialization along with a copy of or link to your cv to our book review editor, Elaine Parsons, at parsonse@duq.edu.

International Journal for Equity in Health
International Journal for Equity in Health aims to further the state of knowledge about equity in health, defined as systematic and potentially remediable differences in health across populations and population groups defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically. Advances in the following areas are of particular interest:

1. Contributions to the conceptulaization of influences on health and
   inequities in health and health services and their mode of operation;
2. Advances in methods for studying inequities and evaluating
   interventions and policies to reduce them;
3. Pathways through which influences on health influence equity in
   health;
4. Evaluation of interventions to reduce inequities in health;
5. Development, analysis, implementation, and evaluation of policies
   and the process of policy change for reducing inequities in health.

International Journal for Equity in Health accepts only online submission. Editorial control of the journal is in the hands of the Editor-in-Chief, to whom all enquiries about content or submissions should be addressed.

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