I’m excited to step into the role of Book Review Editor at the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics  (IJFAB). In this role, I’ll be working with contributors to develop thoughtful, engaging reviews and helping to shape the book review section as an active site of scholarly conversation. I’m especially looking forward to connecting with readers and reviewers across the IJFAB community and beyond, and I warmly invite those interested in reviewing to get in

A conversation between IJFAB Blog co-editor and Larry R. Churchill on feminist methods and approaches in a new edited collection in bioethics.

Mercer Gary : Hi there, this is Mercer Gary, and I'm here with Rebecca Kelliher, the author of Just Pills: the Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care . Hi, Rebecca.  Rebecca Kelliher : Hi, thank you so much for  having me. MG : That you for being here. So, if we could start out by having you give us a brief synopsis of your recent book, we'd love to hear you describe it and how you came to write it.  RK : Just Pills , my book, is a history of abortion pills. It

Thoughts on “The Case” in Public Bioethics This year I’ve been contemplating the ethics of highly publicized bioethics “cases.” Here I am thinking about medical (or medical-related) individual patient situations that enter mainstream awareness through news media, and then are debated in the public sphere, as well as among academic bioethicists. I am writing from the United States, where there is a history of these public cases shaping bioethics as a field. We can name patient