<p>In the US, researchers at academic institutions who do work with human research participants must obtain the approval of an Institutional Review Board (IRB) that looks to assure that research protocols do not violate ethical requirements for such research. Washington &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/05/should-institutional-review-boards-charge-a-fee-to-review-research-proposals-wustl-gives-us-a-test-case/">Continue reading <span class="me

<p>Today, May 1, is known in the labor rights movement as May Day or International Workers’ Day. It celebrates the dignity of laboring humans and the right to be seen as and live as fully human. I want to use &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/05/persons-as-producers-why-bioethics-should-be-concerned-with-work-culture-and-the-structure-of-labor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; pad

<p>I am struck by what health care disparities and the lived experiences of postpartum patients mean for implementation of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology&#8217;s new guidelines on postpartum care. These guidelines valuably refocus the medical establishment&#8217;s focus on &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/04/acog-issues-new-consensus-call-for-improvements-to-maternal-health-care-but-who-will-benefit/">Continue reading <spa

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: This blog is a short version of the issue that author and feminist bioethicist Charlene Galarneau wrestles with in her article &#8220;Getting King&#8217;s Words Right&#8221; in the most recent issue of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/04/kings-words-on-health-injustice-what-did-he-actually-say/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="paddin

<p>Whenever there is a disparate social response to a problem that afflicts one group of people relative to a problem that afflicts another, it is worth asking why. Such questions are not asked to imply that no one should  get &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/04/the-public-health-response-that-drug-addiction-should-always-have-gotten-is-coming-into-play-for-opioids-in-a-way-it-never-did-for-crack/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&ra

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: If you have work in feminist bioethics, broadly construed, please submit to FAB Congress, meeting in conjunction with the World Congress of Bioethics later this year in India. These opportunities to be with the global bioethics community and do &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/04/deadline-is-coming-up-for-submissions-to-fab-congress-world-congress-of-bioethics-in-india/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;<

<p>April is Autism Awareness Month in the U.S.  All too often, the rhetoric around autism is shaped by the needs and voices of the caregivers and families of people who are autistic. Goodness knows the perspectives of caregivers and families &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/04/seek-each-other-out-nothing-about-us-without-us-autism-awareness-month-and-the-centering-of-autistic-persons/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a

<p>We bloggers and readers been writing and talking amongst ourselves lately about children, weight, fat shaming, and concerns about policing and medicalizing kids’ bodies. Once you start down this path, it’s really hard to stop. And where does this lead? &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/04/weight-loss-surgery-for-teens-a-disturbing-trend/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding

<p>Feminist bioethics is, of course, about more than reproductive ethics. But it is also about reproductive bioethics.  One of the big issues with reproductive bioethics from a feminist perspective is the tension between who is dissuaded from or prevented from &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/03/in-case-you-missed-it-acogs-guidelines-on-reproductive-sterilization-were-updated-last-year/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span><

<p>Editor’s Note: This blog comes to us from Sayer Johnson, who blogged for IJFAB Blog in the past on the issue of how clinicians respond to trans patients. Here, Mr. Johnson reaches a frustrated breaking point with the way that &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/03/intimacy-without-reciprocity-how-researchers-working-with-transgender-humans-can-do-better/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-botto

<p>The new issue of IJFAB is out with some spectacular articles on topics ranging from childbirth to epistemic injustice to patient noncompliance to Saudi Arabian bioethics. Scroll down to the bottom for the table of contents! The UT Press Blog &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/03/new-issue-is-out-and-dont-miss-the-university-of-toronto-press-blog-based-on-an-article-from-the-new-issue-of-ijfab/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;

<p>Written by Robyn Bluhm of MSU with input from, and speaking for, the other MSU-affiliated IJFAB folks: two Editors of the International Journal of Feminist Bioethics (Jamie Nelson and Hilde Lindemann) and the Editor of the IJFAB Blog (Alison Reiheld). IJFAB is currently hosted at Michigan &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/03/larry-nassar-sexual-assault-by-a-physician-and-an-army-of-women-ijfab-editors-take-from-within-the-msu-community/">C

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: This blog entry by special guest author Dr. M. Sara Rosenthal is part of our miniseries on conscientious objection including the Editor’s introduction and blog entries by Ruth Groenhout, Karey Harwood, and Laura Guidry-Grimes on this subject. This month, the Trump Administration introduced &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/03/objection-sustained/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: This blog entry is part of our miniseries on conscientious objection including the Editor&#8217;s introduction and blog entries by Ruth Groenhout and Karey Harwood on this subject. The newly formed Conscience and Religious Freedom Division of the Office for Civil &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/01/conscientious-objections-professional-limitations-and-hard-realities-for-hospitals/">Continue reading <span class="meta-n

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: This blog by Associate Professor of Religion Karey Harwood is the second in our miniseries reflecting on the Trump administrations&#8217;s support for expanded conscientious objection in medicine. For background readings, see the Editor&#8217;s introduction to the series. For another &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/01/on-the-common-good-and-medical-conscience-claims/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</s

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: This is the first entry in our short series of blogs reflecting on the medical conscience policy of the current US President and his Administration. See the Editor&#8217;s introduction to this miniseries for more background on both this issue &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/01/the-conflict-in-conscientious-objection-isnt-what-we-think-it-is-how-religiously-based-objections-to-providing-medical-care-might-undermine-ch

<p>As you may have heard, the Trump Administration has announced an expanded policy on conscientious objection in medicine, with institutional support in the form of a Department of Health and Human Services office that will be responsible for protecting objectors. &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/01/ijfab-blog-series-responses-to-the-trump-administrations-policies-on-medical-conscience-claims/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;

<p>&nbsp; A recent, though smaller than deserved, furor erupted in the US over a video of a non-white female patient being dropped off via wheelchair at a bus stop by hospital personnel during freezing temperatures wearing only a hospital gown &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/01/everything-old-is-new-again-patient-dumping-in-the-united-states/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; pad

<p>Over at bioethics.net, bioethicist Keisha Ray addresses the maternal health disparities experienced by black women, in particular. In her blog, &#8220;BLACK WOMEN ARE DYING IN DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBERS DURING AND AFTER GIVING BIRTH AND NOT EVEN CELEBRITY SERENA WILLIAMS IS SAFE&#8221; &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/01/3336/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;"

<p>As we know, the state of our environment has significant health effects and disruptions to climate are especially likely to harm the most vulnerable among us. This would seem to make it important for people to get behind conservation efforts. &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/01/what-does-it-mean-that-caring-for-the-environment-is-seen-as-unmasculine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom