The Linacre Quarterly 83 (4) 2016, 468

Call for papers

Special issue on women’s health care

 

The Linacre Quarterly is preparing a special issue on women’s health to include a holistic picture of the factors that influence the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual well-being of women. As many secular and Catholic journals focus on reproductive health topics, this special issue will focus on exploration of other women’s health topics. In doing so, the Linacre Quarterly seeks to serve women with a greater respect for the fullness of the dignity of femininity.

 

The guest editors of this issue ask authors to reflect on the goal of the Linacre Quar-terly, to reveal the truths of the Catholic Church in the science and practice of medicine. Articles submitted for publication will be evaluated not only for their didactic value related to women’s health, but also for contribution to a deeper understanding of ethical issues concerning the care for women. Submissions could address, but are not limited to:

 

  • Care of women in the various life stages
  • Eating disorders in women
  • The ethics of breast cancer screening
  • Physiological and pathological cognitive decline in older women
  • Central pain syndromes as they affect women’s health
  • A healthy approach to menopause
  • The spiritual care of women
  • Caring for women with gynecologic malignancies
  • The Church’s understanding of women and the relationship to health care
  • Medical care of the woman athlete
  • Biases in medical research related to women
  • The care of the Catholic woman physician
  • The role of midlevel practitioners in the medical care of women
  • Caring for female victims of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse
  • Medical care of women immigrants and refugees
  • Caring for the elderly wife as caregiver
  • The psychological demands of body image on women in our culture
  • Being a male ob/gyn and the impli-cations for holistic care of women
  • Social trends related to women’s health care
  • The unique role of mothering
  • How women physicians balance medi-cine and family
  • The contribution of women to teaching empathy to medical trainees

The deadline is July 1, 2017. If you have any questions, please contact us at LQ@cathed.org. Manuscripts may be submitted at http://www.editorialmanager.com/lnq/.

 

Catherine  D.  DeAngelis,  MD,  MPH,            Deacon William V. Williams, MD

Sister Mary Diana Dreger, OP, MD, and        Editor in Chief

Jean M. Baric-Parker, MS, MA

Guest Editors

 

© Catholic Medical Association 2016                                                        DOI 10.1080/00243639.2016.1254920