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.

Pernkopf’s Anatomy is renowned for its precise depictions of the body and its troubling history of its creator raising ethical questions about what to do in the present with works that have harmful pasts.

FAB 2026 BIOETHICS IN CONFRONTATION:  REFLECTION, RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE The deadline for submission of FAB abstracts is Wednesday, 1...

This essay by Alison Reiheld and Nancy Berlinger was originally published on Hastings Bioethics Forum . It is reproduced here with...

<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 &hellip; <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

<p>As in earlier posts regarding book reviews, we&#8217;re seeking some reviewers for some specific new texts but also always welcome enquiries for other books that might be on people&#8217;s radars. Get in touch if there is something you&#8217;d like to &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2025/04/book-reviewers-needed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-sha

<p>This month&#8217;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: &#8220;The Moral Asymmetry of Conscientious Provision and Conscientious Refusal, Insights from Oppression and Allyship,&#8221; &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2025/04/latest-episode-of-fabgab-now-live/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding

<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 &hellip; <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">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<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 &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2025/03/bioethicists-on-recent-events/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:1

<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 &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2025/03/feminist-bioethics-scholar-spotlight-supriya-subramani/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></

<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 &#8220;⁠Locating Abortion and Contraception on the Obstetric Violence Continuum⁠&#8221; appearing in Volume 17, &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2025/03/fabgab-episode-4-zoe-tongue/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;"

<p>There is no shortage of social media quite literally making the news, whether as a topic of news coverage or as people&#8217;s sources of news information, despite being rife with misinformation. How (or if) scholars should be on social media &hellip; <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">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div st

<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 &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/12/new-year-more-feminist-bioethics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"

<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 &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/12/call-for-2025-submissions-health-incarceration/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</sp

<p>The latest issue of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics is out now &#8211; from October 2024. It includes original essays, commentaries, and an author meets critic section on Microaggressions in Medicine, a book previously featured on the &hellip; <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">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:1

<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 &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/11/morning-thoughts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!-

<p>We have a number of books we&#8217;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 &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/11/seeking-book-reviewers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!

<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&#8217;s Disease and Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Related Dementia research in &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/10/recent-work-of-interest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; paddi

<p>Today is World Bioethics Day and the global theme is &#8220;non-discrimination and non-stigmatization.&#8221; The ongoing genocide in Gaza is an extreme example of discrimination and stigmatization, a health crisis, and a global injustice. We&#8217;re using today to add to our &hellip; <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">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-

<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 &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/10/fab-2026-survey/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https://www.hupso.com/shar