The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics

The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (IJFAB) provides a new forum within bioethics for feminist thought and debate. Sponsored by the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB), IJFAB welcomes feminist scholarship on ethical issues related to health, health care, and the biomedical sciences. IJFAB aims to demonstrate clearly the necessity and distinctive contributions of feminist scholarship to bioethics.

IJFAB is committed to sustaining and expanding the network of scholars in feminist bioethics. In accord with this mission IJFAB is

• Multidisciplinary, reflecting the diversity of methods and approaches within feminist bioethics.
• International, representing the global constituency of FAB and feminist scholarship in bioethics.
• Committed to exploring the implications of scholarship for public policy.
• Committed to exploring how gender intersects with other social determinants of privilege and discrimination, including race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and physical and mental ability.
• Committed to exploring the relation of feminist theory to feminist pedagogy and feminist practice across a wide variety of domains related to health.

IJFAB solicits papers that approach any problem or topic in bioethics from the resources of feminist scholarship and thought. IJFAB is published twice yearly in April and November. IJFAB also invites proposals for special issues. All papers are subject to anonymous peer review.

• Subscription information at Indiana University Press.
• IJFAB call for papers.

IJFAB Editorial Board

Angela Ballantyne (New Zealand/Australia) Research Fellow in Bioethics, Department of Medical Education, Flinders University. Angela has served as the Technical Officer for Genetics and Ethics at the World Health Organization

Lisa Diedrich (USA) Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies, Stony Brook University. Lisa is the author of Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness, University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

Debora Diniz (Brazil) Director, ANIS: the Institute of Bioethics, Human Rights and Gender, Brasilia. In 2002 Debora received the Manuel Velasco-Suarez Award in Bioethics from the Pan American Health and Education Foundation.

Sue Dodds (Australia) Head, School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages, University of Wollongong. Sue served as co-coordinator of FAB. 2003-2006.

Lisa Eckenweiler (USA) Book Review Editor. Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co-director of the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs, Old Dominion University.

Carolyn Ells (Canada) Assistant Professor of Medicine and Bioethics, McGill University. Carolyn is a clinical ethicist at the Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, where she chairs the Clinical Ethics Committee and Research Ethics Committee.

Shannon Lundeen (USA) Associate Director, the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Pennsylvania. Shannon is co-editor of The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics. (Springer, 2006).

Mary C. Rawlinson (USA) Editor. Associate Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook University. Mary is editor of Feminist Bioethics (JMP, 2001), as well as The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics (Springer, 2006.)

Arleen Sales (Argentina/USA) Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St. John’s University. Arleen is the editor of Bioethics: Latin American Perspectives.

Toby Schonfeld (USA) Associate Professor of Medical Ethics in the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Toby has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the FAB Newsletter

Jackie Leach Scully (UK/Switzerland) Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology, University of Newcastle. Jackie is a member of the Unit for Ethics in the Biosciences at the University of Basel.

Rosie Tong (USA) Distinguished Professor of Health Care Ethics at the University of North Carolina. Rosie is one of the founding mothers of feminist ethics, with a life time involvement in the field.

Ex-Officio Members

Anne Donchin (USA) FAB Treasurer

Carolyn McLeod (CAN) FAB Co-Coordinator

Wendy Rogers (AUS) FAB Co-Coordinator

Editorial Board Responsibilities

1. Editorial Board members are typically appointed for a three year term. In order to insure a staggered rotation, one third of initial appointments will be for a term of two years, one third, for three years, and one third, for four years.
2. Editorial Board members will be expected to contribute to the active work of IJFAB
   • By reviewing or referring for review up to six papers per year.
   • By working with the Editor and the Editorial Board to develop thematic issues and to identify guest editors for those issues.
   • By assisting the Editorial Office in building and sustaining a database of reviewers in the various areas of feminist scholarship in bioethics.
   • By being available for consultation on issues related to the mission and delivery of the IJFAB.
3. The Editorial Board will appoint a Book Review Editor who will serve ex officio on the Editorial Board and be responsible for that section of the journal. The Book Review Editor will identify books for review, solicit reviewers, and oversee the preparation of reviews for publication.
4. The Editorial Board will aim to meet at least every two years in conjunction with the biennial FAB conference. Editorial Board members are expected to attend those meetings. Other meetings may be scheduled in the interim. Editorial Board members are also expected to seek financial support for travel to these meetings from their home institutions; however, the Editorial Office will also make efforts to raise funds to help pay travel expense for Editorial Board members who have no other source of funding.