<p>An article recently posted by NPR describes the latest solution to a crisis of which usually only one side is well-represented:  the well-publicized fear of opioid abuse versus the quieter, yet ongoing, experiences of chronic pain patients who are losing &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/07/how-to-fail-pain/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: This is Part 4 in the IJFAB Blog mini-series on pedagogy, with a focus on teaching about oppression, disadvantage, and privilege. Part 1 dealt with dogmatically unyielding students, while Parts 2 and 3 gave the professor and student sides &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/07/pedagogy-part-4-the-ethical-classroom-avoiding-privilege-and-oppression-when-teaching-about-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</s

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: Part 3 in our pedagogy mini-series comes to us from Elon University student Arianne Payne, an African-American woman who reflects on taking a course on rap, one which touches on racism and black culture, from a white male professor &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/07/student-perspective-on-privileged-profs-teaching-courses-on-oppression/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="paddin

<p>&nbsp; This morning, NBC&#8217;s Today Show featured a short piece on the lives of Leah Smith and Joe Stramondo. What the piece did not mention is their scholarship and advocacy work, focusing instead on their family life.  Both have contributed &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/07/ijfab-blog-contributors-interviewed-on-today-show-love-family-disability-difference/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: As part of our mini-series on pedagogy&#8211;which kicked off with Kate MacKay&#8217;s reflection last week on unyielding dogmatism in the classroom&#8211;IJFAB Blog features a two-part consideration by a professor and a student on issues arising from classes in which &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/07/pedagogy-part-2-privileged-teachers-teach-about-privilege/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: Many IJFAB Blog readers spend a good part of their lives in teaching settings, doing pedagogy as teacher or learner or co-inquirer. Some are clinician educators (nurse educators or physicians working with residents and medical students), others are academic &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/07/pedagogy-part-1-ideology-vs-philosophy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bott

<p>Hi, folks. This is just a quick announcement of our upcoming 4-part mini-series. We will be focusing on issues that arise in planning and handling discussions of oppression in the classroom. The reason why this place is hit is because &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/07/coming-soon-mini-series-on-ethics-pedagogy-of-teaching-about-oppressive-social-and-political-features/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: Anna K. Swartz works on neuroethics and mental illness. Here, she reflects on the conceptual and ethical pitfalls of attempting to use brain scans to determine whether children who report being trans are &#8220;really&#8221; trans. In late May &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/07/3694/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-b

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: This blog entry from the IJFAB Blog Editor provides background on the current US handling of undocumented immigrants crossing at the southern border, on increased detention of immigrants generally including the role of for-profit prison corporations, and on shifts &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/06/background-and-link-roundup-on-us-policies-of-family-separation-and-internment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav"

<p>I have long been concerned with how our nosologies&#8211;the way in which we classify diseases, and decide which human conditions count as diseases&#8211;exemplify a mix of science and social values. In my work, I&#8217;ve touched on this with obesity, and &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/06/major-change-coming-to-new-who-disease-classification-system-for-transgender-persons-but-will-it-be-good/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&r

<p>Let me start by echoing Talia Mae Bettcher that transgender women are women and transgender men are men (Bettcher, 2013). The definition of “woman” includes all those individuals who identify as a woman and the definition “man” includes all those &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/06/sports-are-something-we-made-and-we-can-remake-them/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-to

<p>In this recent article from The Guardian, Frances Ryan (who reports frequently on disability issues) draws attention to the following Kafka-esque situation. Disabled people in the UK whose eligibility for benefits has to be assessed (ie, to check they are &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/05/i-keep-telling-you-i-cant-get-in-the-building/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding

<p>I appreciated Sorcha&#8217;s excellent blog the other day in the lead-up to the Irish vote on whether to repeal the 8th amendment which was added to the Irish constitution 25 years ago. For more background, check it out.  But I &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/05/outcome-of-irish-abortion-vote-repeal-of-the-8th/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: Irish philosopher Sorcha Uí Chonnachtaigh is a long-time member of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network, and writes for IJFAB Blog today on the upcoming urgent vote on whether to keep Ireland&#8217;s 8th amendment. As has long been noted, &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/05/no-means-we-keep-the-status-quo-a-yes-vote-is-the-only-morally-acceptable-result-in-irelands-abortion-referendum/">Continue reading <span

<p>IJFAB Blog would like to draw your attention to this superb bit of work by Florencia Luna in the Canadian Journal of Bioethics, &#8220;From the Middle Ages to the 21st Century. Abortion, Assisted Reproduction Technologies and LGBT Rights in Argentina.&#8221; Abstract &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/05/dont-miss-florencia-lunas-review-of-reproductive-policies-and-lgbt-issues-in-argentina/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</s

<p>In a turn that should not be all that surprising given that Teen Vogue has published on evidence-based sexual health and Cosmopolitan has published serious work on sexual harassment and assault, the young person&#8217;s fashion and beauty magazine Marie Claire &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/05/marie-claire-magazine-does-feminist-bioethics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; pa

<p>We all see things through our lenses, for good or for ill. And when listening to the numbers of civilian casualties in Gaza in U.S. press coverage over the last few days, I kept thinking about the emergency rooms and &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/05/questions-and-sorrow-and-regret-and-a-plan-reflections-on-medical-scarcity-and-triage-in-the-gaza-strip/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-b

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: From time to time, IJFAB Blog features  content that isn&#8217;t directly about bioethics but is most assuredly about feminism and gender. This helps us to get our own frameworks clear, whether because we agree with the author or are &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/05/why-trans-exclusionary-feminism-is-bad-for-everyone/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; pa

<p>Bioethicists have long been alert to the delicate dance of preserving patient autonomy in long-term residential care settings such as nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, and other institutional settings where patients may reside for extended periods of time in the U.S. &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/05/more-an-inmate-than-a-patient-check-out-this-consideration-of-autonomy-and-long-term-care-settings/">Continue reading <span class=

<p>As you may know, Medicaid is the US government health care safety net program for low-income Americans. While both the federal government and each state government contribute funds, the states make the decisions on allocation of those funds. Some states &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/05/transgender-residents-of-wisconsin-sue-the-state-for-medicaid-coverage-of-gender-confirmation-treatments/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr