<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 &hellip; <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">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-to

<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/2017/08/bioethics-family-and-summer-school-part-5/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-b

<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/2017/08/bioethics-family-and-summer-school-part-4-day-3-family-as-a-verb/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px

<p>Editor&#8217;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/2017/08/bioethics-family-and-summer-school-part-3-day-2-why-do-families-matter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padd

<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/2017/08/bioethics-family-and-summer-school-part-2-day-1-is-intellectually-thrilling/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; paddi

<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 &hellip; <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">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; paddi

<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 &hellip; <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

<p>Chronic pain  &#8212;  and especially idiopathic chronic pain  &#8212;  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 &hellip; <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">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bott

<p>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: This guest post by the Ethics Working Group on ZIKV Research &amp; Pregnancy is cross-posted with the Canadian Bioethics blog Impact Ethics. The Ethics Working Group on ZIKV Research &amp; Pregnancy provides recommendations to ensure that pregnant women are &hellip; <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">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div

<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 &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/07/things-that-ought-not-be/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><

<p>Earlier this year (2017), Hypatia Reviews Online did a review of Elizabeth Barnes&#8217; 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 &hellip; <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">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px

<p>Hi, folks. I just got this in my e-mail and thought I&#8217;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 &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/07/ijfab-discounted-subscription-rates/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-sh

<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 &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/07/3028/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!-- H

<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&#8217;s new book. Liz notes that Rawlinson &hellip; <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">&rarr;</span></a><

<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 &hellip; <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="

<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 &hellip; <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

<p>Editor&#8217;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&#8217;s permission, &hellip; <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

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: Smith and Stramondo have co-authored for IJFAB Blog in the past, with the widely read &#8220;Musings on the Value of &#8216;Awareness&#8217;.&#8221; You can see a shared bio at the end of today&#8217;s blog article. Until this past Thursday, most &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/06/why-trumpcares-medicaid-cuts-are-a-feminist-disability-rights-issue-by-leah-smith-and-joseph-stramondo/">Continue reading <span class="met

<p>Over in The New York Times, Margaret Sanger-Katz has an analysis of U.S. Senate health care bill which we have been covering recently. In it, she pulls no bunches and yet, this Editor thinks, fairly describes the Republican values and problems &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/06/ny-times-article-says-us-senate-health-bill-depends-on-shifting-dollars-from-poor-to-rich/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div sty

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: We have had a few blogs that reference The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale since Season 1 of the Hulu series began in 2017, and one that did so several years ago which had a lively discussion in the comments.  Here, Laura &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/06/wheres-lysistrata-when-you-need-her/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-bu