Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced a cross-journal thematic series which addresses 'International Neuroethics in Clinical Practice: From Bench to Bedside and Beyond'. The series Editors are James Giordano, Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, and Dan Stein, guest Editor.
The expanding applications of the neuroscience foster questions about the definition of treatment, the limitations and limits of biomedical technology, and issues of justice in the provision of medical goods, services and resources. Neuroethics is the ethics of these questions, and is somewhat contentious.
Given the broad international scope of neuro-scientific research and use, neuroethics must be sensitive to multi-cultural issues to be viable in the pluralist world-stage that defines 21st century medicine and society. Submissions addressing the questions, concepts, problems, and potential solutions in medical research and practice as enacted internationally and cross-culturally are welcome. To gather the full range of viewpoints researchers, scholars, and practitioners in the sciences, humanities and practices of medicine are all invited to submit to this thematic series.
Submissions to this series are welcome and all manuscripts will undergo rigorous peer review according to the relevant journals' policies. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2014.
