<p>My New Year&#8217;s Resolutions about obligations to self and others in no particular order, and about balancing work and life and activism as a woman, a mother, and a feminist bioethicist. 1) Move in ways that feel good, as much &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2018/01/new-years-resolutions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!-- Hupso

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: Today we have a special co-authored blog entry by four feminist reproductive justice advocates working on what is known in bioethics as ARTs (Assisted Reproductive Technologies) and other related tech.  Francine Coeytaux, MPH    Co-Director, Pro-Choice Alliance for Responsible Research &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/12/new-assisted-reproduction-regulations-require-feminist-voices/">Continue reading <span class="meta

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: In the past year, IJFAB Blog has featured several blog entries on shifting pronoun usage not only in the English language but in the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics itself.  IJFAB Editor Jackie Leach Scully brings us this reflection on IJFAB&#8217;s revised pronoun &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/12/ijfabs-pronoun-policy-singular-they-or-gender-neutral-forms-such-as-ze-or-zir-just-be-consist

<p>The long-time reader of IJFAB Blog, and alert bioethicist who follows the news, will remember the Flint water crisis.  As numerous investigative news articles&#8211;and even at least one news comedy show&#8211;have pointed out, Flint is by no means alone in the &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/11/who-should-be-responsible-for-environment-health-and-politics-detroit-and-1300-other-hotspots-have-higher-lead-poisoning-rates-than-flint-and-so

<p>Maternal mortality is a basic public health measure. It is also one of the many health outcomes on which the United States ranks much lower than other comparably developed nations. As per Ann Simmons&#8217; superb article on the subject of &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/11/disparities-in-maternal-mortality-some-american-women-have-a-higher-risk-of-the-highest-cost-of-being-pregnant/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>

<p>You may or may not be familiar with the Andrew Solomon&#8217;s Far From the Tree, a book format study of difference within families including families raising children with &#8220;extraordinary needs.&#8221;  It&#8217;s a useful and important tool for teaching and learning about families and persons &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/11/new-film-coming-out-based-on-the-disability-rights-book-far-from-the-tree/">Continue reading <span class=

<p>I want to consider a particular kind of wrong within medicine and health promotion: epistemic injustice and its harms. My case study is obesity conceived of as a public health concern. However, the analytic framework I deploy may prove useful &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/11/what-you-dont-know-can-hurt-you-epistemic-injustice-and-conceptually-impoverished-health-promotion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: This guest post comes to us from bioethicist Françoise Baylis. Professor Baylis is the Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy at Dalhousie University, Editor of the Canadian bioethics blog Impact Ethics, the author of numerous superb articles using feminist &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/10/gene-editing-technology-where-should-we-draw-the-line/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p

<p>If you have already received your paper copy of the new Fall 2017 issue of International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (Vol 10 Iss 2), you will have noticed a new look. You may also have noticed that the journal&#8217;s international &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/10/fall-2017-issue-of-ijfab-is-out-with-special-section-remembering-anne-donchin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padd

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Editor&#8217;s Note: This guest post comes to us from philosopher Saba Fatima, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Religious Studies at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.  &nbsp; Last year, I presented at the 2016 American Society for Bioethics Humanities (ASBH) &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/10/walking-the-talk-of-inclusivity-prohibitive-costs-of-bioethics-humanities-conferences/">Continue reading <s

<p>Over in the well-regarded journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, we find the new Winter 2017 issue (Vol 60 Iss 1), a special issue on &#8220;Disciplines of Bioethics: Personal Perspectives.&#8221; While there are valuable reflections from physicians, philosophers (Franklin Miller), lawyers and &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/10/nurse-bioethicists-doing-bioethics-as-nurses-doing-bioethics-of-nursing/">Continue reading <span class="

<p>In international bioethics news, South Korea might alter its bioethics law if lawmakers of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea have their way. This law previously restricted human subject research on genetic alterations to those related to genetic diseases, cancer, &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/10/south-korea-may-loosen-legal-restrictions-to-encourage-more-research-into-human-gene-therapy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rar

<p>Recent reports indicate that the water crisis in Flint, MI, had unpredicted health consequences including increasing the rate of fetal deaths and miscarriages. The effect size is described by the authors of a new working paper as &#8220;horrifyingly large.&#8221;  You &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/09/health-consequences-of-flint-water-crisis-grow/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom

<p>At the end of August, news broke about an effort to develop a herpes vaccine. On the face of it a good use of human subject research, in fact the research conducted on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts was &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/09/international-research-on-herpes-vaccines-under-fire-for-ethical-lapses-by-government-of-st-kitts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; paddi

<p>America&#8217;s National Public Radio (NPR) aired a piece yesterday about a family that was waiting for care for their sick infant, when immigration enforcement moved and took the parents into custody after Sildenafil citrate contained these new soft drugs become &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/09/should-immigration-enforcement-take-place-in-hospitals/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bot

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: Scroll to the bottom of this blog entry by Rory Kraft for a list of his prior blog articles on attempts to &#8220;repeal and replace&#8221; the Affordable Care Act, AKA Obamacare, as well as other IJFAB blog entries &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/09/the-balking-dead-the-undying-effort-to-repeal-and-replace-the-acas-attempt-to-provide-greater-access-to-health-care-in-the-u-s/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">

<p>The New York Times has an article in yesterday&#8217;s paper called &#8220;The Psychic Toll of Trump&#8217;s DACA Decision.&#8221; As you may know, DACA refers to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program in the United States. It is an initiative &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/09/the-mental-health-costs-of-losing-daca/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10p

<p>Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of short blog posts about the bioethics summer school in Groningen, the Netherlands, which is focused on the role of family in the delivery and consumption of health care. Look for others &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/09/bioethics-family-and-summer-school-part-6-the-final-day-and-the-good-enough-family/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px

<p>For some time now, there have only been 3 clinics in the United States that will perform late abortions (to read more about some late abortions, see this IJFAB blog entry on the topic). One of these, the Germantown Clinic &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/09/only-2-clinics-remain-in-the-us-to-perform-late-pregnancy-abortion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" c

<p>Over in the New York Times, Gregor Aisch and Bill Marsh have an explainer with superb infographics on the comparative effectiveness of various contraceptive methods with respect to unplanned pregnancy. The graphs compare actual with ideal use, and have a slider &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/09/informed-decision-making-on-contraception-might-need-these-charts-comparing-different-methods/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</