<p>As you may know, the US is in the midst of the Republican party&#8217;s long-promised efforts to &#8220;repeal and replace&#8221; the Affordable Care Act, AKA Obamacare. Earlier this year, the US House of Representatives passed a bill called the American &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/06/breaking-news-disabled-persons-protest-us-senate-healthcare-bill-and-cuts-to-medicaid-includes-link-roundup/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&

<p>As profiled in a recent Independent article, Dr. Anurog Bishnoi provides in vitro fertilization services to women who are often deemed &#8220;too old&#8221; by medical standards. Reading this excerpt, and the article, you might keep in mind classic themes of bioethics and &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/06/rogue-doctor-in-india-provides-fertility-to-older-patients/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style

<p>A June 15, 2017 article found at AllAfrica, and drawing on work by The Guardian, summarizes some of the arguments made at a recent Its effectiveness in erectile cialis active dysfunction has yet to be determined, the classification turns out &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/06/nigerian-medical-ethicists-and-insurers-call-for-regulation-of-medical-insurance-and-practice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div s

<p>Over at Hypatia Reviews Online, Christine Wieseler (U-Texas McGovern Center for Humanities &amp; Ethics) has given a concise and useful review of a new book in philosophy of medicine. That book, Phenomenology of Illness by Havi Carel (University of Bristol, UK), &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/06/hypatia-review-of-phenomenology-of-illness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; pad

<p>Over at Foreign Policy recently, philosophers Travis Rieder and Rebecca Kukla engaged in a thoughtful, pleasant, and yet provocative dialogue about reproductive considerations in light of climate change (Rieder, Colin Hickey, and Jake Earl recently published an article about the &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/06/to-reproduce-or-not-to-reproduce-and-if-so-how-much-that-is-the-question/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</spa

<p>The blog Discrimination and Disadvantage is in the midst of an on-line symposium on Melinda Hall&#8217;s new book The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics. Commentaries by Shelley Tremain as well as Jane Dryden and Ladelle McWhorter are already up, with one more &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/06/online-symposium-on-melinda-halls-book-on-disability-and-biopolitics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">

<p>Surprising absolutely no one who follows the history of intersex treatment in the United States, BBC Radio 4 has a recent story about the history of intersex treatment in the UK with the provocative headline &#8220;Intersex Patients &#8216;Routinely Lied To &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/05/intersex-patients-routinely-lied-to-by-doctors-per-recent-bbc-radio-4-article/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div s

<p>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: An expanded version of this editorial by Editor Alison Reiheld was solicited by the Canadian bioethics blog Impact Ethics. You can find it here. It contains links to more indigenous authors and groups about these kinds of health issues &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/05/the-biggest-health-problem-facing-canada-indigenous-health/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom

<p>Four years ago, nearly to the day, IJFAB Blog contributor Alison Reiheld wrote on the repeal of Swedish laws that had required transgender person to be sterile (or become sterile) AND to have surgical sex reassignment in order to change &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/05/mandatory-sterilization-for-transgender-people-as-a-requirement-of-legal-gender-recognition-struck-down-in-europe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>

<p>In 1996, historian of science Edward Tenner published his influential book Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences. It is an extended consideration of how technology comes to demand much of us even as it frees us from &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/05/the-revenge-effects-of-electronic-medical-records/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; paddi

<p>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: See this December 2017 blog entry for the IJFAB Editorial position on pronouns. In light of recent controversies in philosophy surrounding how philosophers ought best to write about vulnerable social identities&#8211;whether gender or race&#8211;I&#8217;ve been thinking about some &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/05/time-to-update-ijfabs-pronoun-conventions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: This is one of several blog entries on Atwood&#8217;s The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale. For the first in the series, go here. The Handmaid’s Tale was one of many texts which, when I finally read it, turned out to be very different &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/05/body-ecology-and-commodification-in-the-handmaids-tale/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-t

<p>Every once in awhile a venue surprises you: Teen Vogue has been doing good critical reporting on social justice issues and American politics, and Cosmopolitan&#8211;long the home of beauty tips and how to please your man&#8211;has just published an article &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/05/pregnancy-and-childbirth-for-mothers-with-disabilities/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20p

<p>Amidst the flurry of news in the last week over artificial wombs&#8211;a primitive artificial placental sack, or &#8220;biobag&#8221;, sustained sheep fetuses for four weeks&#8211;most of the coverage focused on the value in caring for premature infants. I was reminded of Judith &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/05/2884/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class

<p>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Bioethicist Rory Kraft brings us this handy explanation of the complicated legislative processes in the U.S. Congress, and offers some recommendations for ethicists&#8217; involvement in American healthcare reform going forward. For Kraft&#8217;s previous IJFAB Blog reflections on health &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/05/what-now/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bot

<p>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Earlier this afternoon, the U.S. House (one of the chambers of America&#8217;s bicameral legislature) voted 217-213 to approve a bill to repeal major parts of the Affordable Care Act, AKA Obamacare. The measure that cleared the House will then &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/05/a-plea-to-us-citizens-contact-your-senators-about-the-current-attempt-to-repeal-the-affordable-care-act-without-an-adequate-replacement/">Con

<p>GUEST CONTRIBUTORS Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra (Dr. sc. med., Research Associate, Liminal Spaces Project; Teaching Fellow, School of Law; Executive committee member, Mason Institute; University of Edinburgh Law School, UK) Verina Wild (Dr. med., Philosophy Department, Ludwig-Maximilians- University Munich, Germany)  Social media &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/05/labor-without-respite-tennis-pregnancy-and-other-unexpected-feats/">Continue read

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: See &#8220;Body Ecology and Commodification in The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale&#8221; by Rebecca Bratten Weiss, and more to come. Over the next few weeks, IJFAB Blog will have several original blog entries on The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale, both the book and &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/04/the-handmaids-tale-a-roundup-of-media-sources-and-related-prior-ijfab-blog-entries/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span

<p>Over at the LA Times, Benjamin Reiss has a fine consideration of the ethical importance of sleep differences in his article, &#8220;African Americans don&#8217;t sleep as well as whites, an inequality stretching back to slavery.&#8221; Poor sleep has negative health &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/04/sleep-as-a-matter-of-justice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:1

<p>A recent article by Natalia Megas in The Guardian profiles three women who chose late abortions and who had very much wanted to be pregnant.  It is a moving exploration of the seriousness of abortion as a moral issue, and an important set &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/04/like-and-unlike-late-abortion-in-the-case-of-wanted-pregnancies-and-miscarriage/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bot