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

guest post from Mary Jean Walker , writing with Anne-Marie Laslett , Katherine Karriker-Jaffe and Ingrid Wilson Over the last few years, I’ve been thinking about ethical issues related to alcohol use. I’ve been especially interested in looking at issues related to intoxication, an area relatively neglected in ethics . Alcohol-related harms accrue in ways directed, in part, by gender. I’d like here to argue that feminist bioethicists could usefully engage more in this space.