<p>Medical ethicists and public health specialists have argued for some time that climate change is  a health issue and a medical ethics issue. The four links in the previous sentences are a nice starting point if you want to bone &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/04/climate-change-is-a-medical-ethics-issue-and-this-graph-shows-why-its-real/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; paddin

<p>Many thanks to PJ Welsh and Ezgi Sertler for the technical work behind the scenes restoring IJFAB Blog to full functionality! We are up and running.  Got a possible blog topic?  Contact the editor! While these artificial chemical compounds assist &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/04/our-own-post-easter-resurrection-this-blog-is-fully-operational/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px

<p>Hello, dear readers. As you may have noticed, IJFAB Blog has been down for a week and a half. While the blog is back up, we are working to fix access to our archive of blogs. You may notice that &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/04/thank-you-for-your-patience/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https://www.

<p>Our parent journal, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, is celebrating its 10th anniversary.  Lo those many years ago in Spring of 2008, our first issue, Doing Feminist Bioethics, was published. In the second issue, Lyerly, Little, and Faden&#8217;s article on &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/04/tenth-anniversary-issue-of-ijfab-is-an-embarassment-of-riches/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a><

<p>If you missed last Spring&#8217;s issue of our parent journal, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Spring of 2017 is a good time to jump in the Wayback Machine&#8211;before President Trump in the US and Brexit in the UK and the &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/04/way-back-machine-spring-2016-ijfab-vol-9-no-1-articles-on-queerness-and-reproductive-ethics-boutique-ultrasound-homebirth-gmos-feminist-practices-of-bioeth

<p>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: This piece&#8217;s posting was delayed by technical errors. However, the analysis of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) is still pressing and relevant. While the bill was pulled from a planned House vote in the US Congress on &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/03/the-abcs-of-the-ahca-a-is-for-abortion-b-is-for-backward-c-is-for-costly/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-b

<p>For some time now, there has been a movement to address the English language&#8217;s need for a gender neutral singular pronoun. This need originates in the growing realization that using &#8220;he&#8221; to refer to a person whose gender you do &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/03/each-english-language-user-is-about-to-meet-their-languages-new-gender-neutral-singular-pronoun-with-the-release-of-the-new-associated-press-stylebook/">Continu

<p>Salome Karwah was recognized by Time magazine as an Ebola fighter during the 2015 Ebola outbreak. She died February 21 from complications of childbirth by C-section. Days after the procedure, she collapsed from a seizure and began foaming at the &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/02/ebola-stigma-and-lack-of-access-to-care-in-liberia-cost-the-life-of-an-ebola-fighter-after-complications-of-childbirth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav"

<p>Over at the Feminist Midwife, we find a valuable post on WHY something that may seem prima facie wrong is, in fact, wrong.  In an entry called &#8220;Patients Are Not Bitches, and Thoughts Medical Othering,&#8221; Feminist Midwife considers a case &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/02/power-othering-and-slurs-in-the-clinic-undermining-the-capacity-for-care/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-b

<p>Recent developments in American politics continue to exacerbate the migration on foot of refugees from the US to Canada. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has been covering this trend, and we at IJFAB Blog have also been watching. In a new &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/02/mom-i-want-to-die-you-can-go-in-the-canada-i-want-to-die-in-the-snow-you-can-go-mom-in-the-canada/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Thanks to Gretchen Case for this image of the Pasteur Memorial at Cook County Hospital in Chicago.  It is a timely reminder as the context for global public health shifts, and many powerful nations (US, UK, France, and other European &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/02/you-suffer-that-is-enough-for-me/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-butt

<p>Just a quick update on Trump&#8217;s expanded Mexico City Policy AKA the &#8220;global gag rule&#8221;, which we previously addressed.  The Netherlands are leading an effort to implement a fund which would replace funding stripped from organizations under the expanded U.S. &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/01/international-efforts-to-mitigate-the-effects-of-trumps-expanded-mexico-city-policy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;

<p>I sit in front of my computer in New York, contemplating how I am going to speak to groups of people about refugees, narratives, and moral luck in two days&#8217; time.  It is not that I am overly worried about &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/01/its-only-words-on-refugees-and-liminality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!-- Hups

<p>On January 23, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump reinstated Reagan&#8217;s so-called Mexico City Policy, also known as the &#8220;global gag rule.&#8221;  In the process, he also added text that makes a substantive change going farther than any U.S. national-level anti-abortion &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/01/not-business-as-usual-president-trump-reinstates-mexico-city-policy-with-a-substantive-addition/">Continue reading <span class=

<p>Give me your tired, your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. &#8211; Emma Lazarus I’m writing &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/01/a-door-slams-in-the-night-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-but

<p>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: IJFAB Blog is pleased to have Jamie L. Nelson, of IJFAB&#8217;s editorial team and Michigan State University, join us as a regular contributor. Her work has been linked from the blog previously in this entry on Bathrooms, Binaries, &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/01/bioethics-meets-families-in-the-netherlands-this-summer/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px;

<p>EDIT: 19 minutes after this blog posted, the NY Times released this (screenshot taken 1 hr 14 minutes after blog posted).  Keep it in mind as you read. For the first time in quite some while, the same political party &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/01/repeal-and-replace-with/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!-- Hupso Share Butt

<p>Philosopher Derek Parfit was known for many things, though chiefly for his work on identity which is of great interest to medical ethicists. How can one say that one is the same thing over time?  And how does this bear &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2017/01/my-death-seems-to-me-less-bad-derek-parfit-died-january-1-2017/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="h

<p>What is happening to our world? Where has our sense of justice and justness gone? It seems like Brexit and The Donald are sounding the death knell of solidarity. They did not cause it; they are, rather, the dead canaries &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/12/theresa-mays-tory-agenda-all-children-left-behind/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-

<p>In April, the IJFAB Blog editor provided some information on pro-life feminism in an entry called &#8220;Pro-Life Feminism: A Catholic feminist philosopher considers the consequences of punishing women for seeking abortions&#8221; mentioning both Sidney Callahan&#8217;s famous essay on the subject and &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/11/a-shift-in-the-anti-abortion-movement-are-feminist-woman-centered-values-gaining-ground/">Continue read