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Bioethics, Family, and Summer School: Part 6 – The Final Day and the “good enough” family
<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 … <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">→</span></a></p>
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Sep 7, 20174 min read


Only 2 clinics remain in the US to perform late-pregnancy abortion
<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 … <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">→</span></a></p>
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Sep 7, 20171 min read


Informed Decision-making on Contraception Might Need These Charts Comparing Different Methods
<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 … <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">→</
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Sep 5, 20171 min read


Police, providers, and patients: between a rock and a hard place? Not really
<p>The Salt Lake Tribune (from the US State of Utah) posted an article yesterday about a nurse who refused to let a police officer trained in phlebotomy take a blood sample from an unconscious patient. The nurse was arrested and … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/09/police-providers-and-patients-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-not-really/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Sep 1, 20173 min read


Bioethics, Family, and Summer School: Part 5 – should care be centered on the person or the family?
<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 … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/08/bioethics-family-and-summer-school-part-5/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Aug 29, 20173 min read


Bioethics, Family, and Summer School: Part 4 – Day 3… family as a verb
<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 … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/08/bioethics-family-and-summer-school-part-4-day-3-family-as-a-verb/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Aug 27, 20173 min read


Bioethics, Family, and Summer School: Part 3 – Day 2… why DO families matter?
<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 … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/08/bioethics-family-and-summer-school-part-3-day-2-why-do-families-matter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Aug 25, 20173 min read


Bioethics, Family, and Summer School: Part 2 – Day 1 is intellectually thrilling
<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 … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/08/bioethics-family-and-summer-school-part-2-day-1-is-intellectually-thrilling/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Aug 24, 20172 min read


Bioethics, Family and Summer School: Part 1 – Introducing Ben Kenofer
<p>Hi there! As Dr. Jamie Nelson mentioned in her introduction post for this summer school liveblog series, my name is Ben Kenofer. I’m a graduate student in philosophy at Michigan State University, going into my fourth year this fall. When … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/08/bioethics-family-and-summer-school-part-1-introducing-ben-kenofer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Aug 23, 20172 min read


“And How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?” The European Institution of the Summer School and “What About the Family?”
<p>There are lots of admirable policies and practices prevalent in E.U. members states, and in Europe more broadly; many speak effectively to profound and population wide needs. The “Summer School” is maybe not the most significant way in which the … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/08/and-how-did-you-spend-your-summer-vacation-the-european-institution-of-the-summer-school-and-what-about-the-family/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&ra
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Aug 23, 20173 min read


The Great Opioid Panic….and What It Leaves in Its Wake
<p>Chronic pain — and especially idiopathic chronic pain — is a sentence that too many will have to bear increasingly on their own. That is, without the help of various painkiller, or opioid, medication that makes day-to-day existence possible. And … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/08/the-great-opioid-panic-and-what-it-leaves-in-its-wake/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Aug 18, 20172 min read


The Zika Virus Vaccine Research Agenda and Pregnant Women
<p>EDITOR’S NOTE: This guest post by the Ethics Working Group on ZIKV Research & Pregnancy is cross-posted with the Canadian Bioethics blog Impact Ethics. The Ethics Working Group on ZIKV Research & Pregnancy provides recommendations to ensure that pregnant women are … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/07/the-zika-virus-vaccine-research-agenda-and-pregnant-women/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Jul 21, 20174 min read


Things That Ought Not Be
<p>“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.” ― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain One of the major benefits cialis sale is to get plenty of exerise, then consider a natural penis pill enhancement if needed. Experts have done a lot of … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/07/things-that-ought-not-be/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Jul 21, 20173 min read


Link to recent review of important new book in disability studies
<p>Earlier this year (2017), Hypatia Reviews Online did a review of Elizabeth Barnes’ 2016 book The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability. The review itself, by Nancy J. Hirschmann, is of great value to those of us trying to figure out where … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/07/link-to-recent-review-of-important-new-book-in-disability-studies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Jul 16, 20172 min read


IJFAB discounted subscription rates
<p>Hi, folks. I just got this in my e-mail and thought I’d share it more widely in case anyone is interested in the IJFAB subscription discount that University of Toronto Press is offering this summer. The full advert includes pictures … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/07/ijfab-discounted-subscription-rates/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Jul 13, 20172 min read


None of us are getting out of here alive. But who goes first, and why? New JAMA article.
<p>Did you catch the Journal of the American Medical Association article on the Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the US, 2001-2014? Spoilers: there is one. This piece tries to break it down further using deidentified tax records to look … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/07/3028/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Jul 10, 20172 min read


HRO reviews new book by former IJFAB editor Mary Rawlinson on sexual difference
<p>As you may know, bioethicist Mary Rawlinson saw the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics through much of its first decade as Editor. Over at Hypatia Reviews Online, Jordan Liz has a review of Rawlinson’s new book. Liz notes that Rawlinson … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/07/hro-reviews-new-book-by-former-ijfab-editor-mary-rawlinson-on-sexual-difference/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a><
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Jul 3, 20172 min read


ACA repeal-and-replace, at least in any of its current forms, will devastate rural Americans
<p>Since 2010, I have incorporated Remote Area Medical (RAM) into my medical ethics teaching. RAM is an organization that relies on corporate donations, individual charitable donations, and time-and-skill donations by health care providers to provide healthcare boot camps for 2-3 days … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/06/aca-repeal-and-replace-at-least-in-any-of-its-current-forms-will-devastate-rural-americans/">Continue reading <span class="
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Jun 30, 20176 min read


Behind Closed Doors: A flawed AHCA does nothing to fix the flaws of the ACA, makes things worse for 10s of millions of Americans
<p>Many of us in the bioethics community are following along with the political maneuvers in the U.S. Senate on the Republican attempt to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (ACA/“Obamacare”). From my perspective it has been more difficult to … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/06/behind-closed-doors-a-flawed-ahca-does-nothing-to-fix-the-flaws-of-the-aca-makes-things-worse-for-10s-of-millions-of-americans/">Continue reading <span clas
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Jun 27, 20176 min read


Effects of Trump administration policies, including census questionnaire changes, on LGBT elderly populations
<p>Editor’s Note: SAGE is a group that provides advocacy and services for LGBT Elders, a group often multiply invisible in public policy due to ageism combined with homophobia, biphobia, and/or transphobia as well as other intersecting oppressions. With the group’s permission, … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/06/effects-of-trump-administration-policies-including-census-questionnaire-changes-on-lgbt-elderly-populations/">Continue
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Jun 25, 20172 min read
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