Call for papers: Psychiatry and Law in the Digital Age: Untangling the Hype, Risk and Promise
摘要截稿: 2018-07-30
全文截稿: 2018-12-31
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Overview
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry invites manuscripts for a special issue focusing ontechnology at the interface of psychiatry and law. It will focus on the legal and ethical implications of emerging technologies and their possible impact on the future direction of psychiatry, and broader policy, law and practice in the mental health field. The Special Issue is aimed at engaging minds from the social and human sciences, particularly those with backgrounds in psychiatry, law and bioethics. We aim to approach technological developments with a spirit of critical discovery and understanding.
Quantitative or qualitative research as well as articles synthesizing research focused on the following topic areas will be given priority:
1. increasing efforts to deliver mental healthcare via mobile and online platforms;
2. the use of ‘tracking’ technology, such as ankle monitors and ‘digital pills’;
3. the regulation of increasingly digitized health records;
4. the participatory development of new technologies;
5. the human rights dimensions of new technologies in the mental health context;
6. the rise of ‘neurotechnology’;
7. the patenting of genetic sequencing for autism and other diagnoses;
8. and the use of ‘artificial intelligence’ and ‘machine learning’ for psychiatric assessment, risk assessment and intervention.
This Special Issue promotes exploration of these concerns with a spirit of caution and curiosity.
This collection is premised on the view that emerging technologies have the potential to radically change global responses to mental health issues. Now is the time to attend to and engage with this shift. Technological change should not take place in the shadows, and nor should it take place in any one field or discipline. Robust legal, clinical and ethical analysis can inform technology as it is designed, developed, and implemented.
To presume ‘technological innovation’ is intrinsically good would be mistaken, but so would its opposite. Technological innovation has complex implications, and deeper understanding requires a nuanced and multidisciplinary approach. This Special Issue seeks to shine a light on these issues, inviting an interdisciplinary analysis of the hype, risk and promise facing psychiatry and law in the digital age.
For this Special Issue, all prospective authors should submit a “pre-submission” proposal of no more than 1500 words (plus up to two tables and/or figures) that explains the planned paper. Prospective authors will be selected based on these proposals, and will be invited to submit a full paper. Full manuscripts will undergo review as per the usual procedures for this journal.