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Doing Right by Family Caregivers During Discharge Planning
This essay by Alison Reiheld and Nancy Berlinger was originally published on Hastings Bioethics Forum . It is reproduced here with...
mg3864
Jul 25 min read


Care – A Thick Concept: Conceptual Significance and Emerging Directions
<p>Guest author, philosopher, and legal scholar Ira Chadha-Sridhar presents the importance of care ethics for biomedical ethics while outlining necessary questions the approach must confront. You can find more of her published work at Res Publica, the Canadian Journal of … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2025/05/care-a-thick-concept-conceptual-significance-and-emerging-directions-a-guest-post-by-ira-chadha-sridhar/">Continue reading <span class="m
Ira Chadha-Sridhar
May 1510 min read


Book Reviewers Needed
<p>As in earlier posts regarding book reviews, we’re seeking some reviewers for some specific new texts but also always welcome enquiries for other books that might be on people’s radars. Get in touch if there is something you’d like to … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2025/04/book-reviewers-needed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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victore17
Apr 161 min read


Latest Episode of FABGab now live
<p>This month’s episode of FABGab is now live with an Emma and Dani interviewing Assoc. Prof. Richard Matthews from Bond University. He talks about his paper: “The Moral Asymmetry of Conscientious Provision and Conscientious Refusal, Insights from Oppression and Allyship,” … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2025/04/latest-episode-of-fabgab-now-live/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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victore17
Apr 141 min read


Bioethics and Public Notice-and-Comment In Federal Rulemaking
<p>In this essay by Rachel Fabi, Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Education in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University, Dr. Fabi provides a helpful explainer about the public comment process in the United States … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2025/04/bioethics-and-public-notice-and-comment-in-federal-rulemaking-a-post-by-ethicist-rachel-fabi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
Rachel Fabi
Apr 85 min read


Bioethicists on Recent Events
<p>In the interest of record-keeping and resource-gathering, we’ve compiled some recent bioethical (and bioethics adjacent) work related to the ongoing maelstrom in the U.S. government. We’ll aim to keep adding sources as they come out and encourage readers to include … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2025/03/bioethicists-on-recent-events/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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mg3864
Mar 241 min read


Feminist Bioethics Scholar Spotlight: Supriya Subramani
<p>This installment of the Feminist Bioethics Scholar Spotlight series features Supriya Subramani, a lecturer at the University of Sydney in Australia who engages ethnographic and phenomenological methods to questions of morality, behavior, and attitudes in healthcare contexts. Dr. Subramani has … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2025/03/feminist-bioethics-scholar-spotlight-supriya-subramani/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></
victore17
Mar 1710 min read


FABGab Episode 4: Zoe Tongue
<p>The latest episode of FABGab with Emma Tumilty and Danica Davies is now available on Spotify. In this episode, we talk with Zoe Tongue about her paper “Locating Abortion and Contraception on the Obstetric Violence Continuum” appearing in Volume 17, … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2025/03/fabgab-episode-4-zoe-tongue/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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victore17
Mar 71 min read


How to be a feminist bioethics scholar on social media?
<p>There is no shortage of social media quite literally making the news, whether as a topic of news coverage or as people’s sources of news information, despite being rife with misinformation. How (or if) scholars should be on social media … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2025/01/how-to-be-a-feminist-bioethics-scholar-on-social-media-an-essay-by-philosopher-nathan-nobis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Nathan Nobis
Jan 2811 min read


New Year/More Feminist Bioethics
<p>As we transition into a new year around the globe, a few things on our agenda for the new year, and a question to feminist approaches to bioethics readers, thinkers, students, activists, and scholars: what is on yours? IJFAB Blog … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/12/new-year-more-feminist-bioethics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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victore17
Dec 31, 20242 min read


Call for 2025 Submissions: Health & Incarceration
<p>The Hastings Center Report: Series on Health and Incarceration Incarceration has been intertwined with bioethics since the field’s founding: early protections of research subjects focused on incarcerated people as an especially vulnerable population deserving of heightened attention. But despite the clear … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/12/call-for-2025-submissions-health-incarceration/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</sp
mg3864
Dec 21, 20242 min read


New Issue of IJFAB: Vol. 17 No. 2
<p>The latest issue of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics is out now – from October 2024. It includes original essays, commentaries, and an author meets critic section on Microaggressions in Medicine, a book previously featured on the … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/11/new-issue-of-ijfab-vol-17-no-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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victore17
Nov 13, 20244 min read


Morning Thoughts
<p>As book review editor, my first thought this morning is to recommend the following: This book by Mariame Kaba (and the accompanying workbook) are available from Haymarket Books. Mariame has also been a guest on the Movement Memos podcast run … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/11/morning-thoughts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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victore17
Nov 6, 20241 min read


Seeking Book Reviewers
<p>We have a number of books we’d like to see reviewed for the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and we are always open to suggestions from authors or reviewers about other options not listed here. To become a … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/11/seeking-book-reviewers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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victore17
Nov 4, 20241 min read


Recent Work of Interest
<p>Boosting some recent work relevant for feminist bioethicists. Feel free to email us at ijfabblog@gmail.com if you have work you’d like us to share! “Scoping review of the ethical regulations for Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease Related Dementia research in … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/10/recent-work-of-interest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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mg3864
Oct 27, 20242 min read


World Bioethics Day 2024: Bioethics and Gaza
<p>Today is World Bioethics Day and the global theme is “non-discrimination and non-stigmatization.” The ongoing genocide in Gaza is an extreme example of discrimination and stigmatization, a health crisis, and a global injustice. We’re using today to add to our … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/10/world-bioethics-day-2024-bioethics-and-gaza/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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victore17
Oct 19, 20244 min read


FAB 2026 Survey
<p>We would like to hear from you about your interest in attending FAB in 2026. It will be held in Johannesburg prior to IAB as it has in the past. FAB will run 6/7th July and IAB 8-10th July. To … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/10/fab-2026-survey/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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victore17
Oct 16, 20241 min read


October 19th is World Bioethics Day
<p>Did you know that World Bioethics Day was established in 2015? It is celebrated every October 19th. This year’s theme is “Non-Discrimination and Non-Stigmatization” – a topic ripe for, and in many ways reflecting, feminist approaches to bioethics. (How) are … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/10/october-19th-is-world-bioethics-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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victore17
Oct 11, 20241 min read


Opportunity: Mellon Grant “Widening the Arc of Trans History"
<p>People research trans feminist bioethics who do archival work should check out this great new opportunity, funded by the Mellon Foundation. From project co-director Hil Malatino: The project, “Widening the Arc of Trans History: Archival Research for Public Storytelling,” will … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/09/opportunity-mellon-grant-widening-the-arc-of-trans-history/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a
victore17
Sep 23, 20241 min read


ASBH Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Affinity Group
<p>On the blog we’ve previously shared a sneak preview of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) plans for the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) Affinity Group. The upcoming session features one of the blog co-editors! Now we’re providing … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/09/asbh-feminist-approaches-to-bioethics-affinity-group/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Lindsey Grubbs & Devora Shapiro
Sep 9, 20244 min read
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