<p>The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities  &#8212;  one of the largest conferences for all academics, clinicians, policy analysts, and others working in the areas of bioethics, medical humanities, medicine, medical education, and related disciplines  &#8212;  is ready to roll &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/07/why-you-should-submit-your-work-to-the-asbh-fab-affinity-group/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a

<p>I am not going to write a lengthy post about the story of drug testing kits (and their failure) linked below.  Please read it.  Because I think that it speaks for itself  &#8212;  loudly, predictably, shamefully&#8230;. Here is a taste: &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/07/move-along-nothing-to-see-here/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-but

<p>US News and World Report recently published an article summarizing the results of a study of Veterans Affairs hospitals. The study found that patients with cancer or dementia received better end-of-life counseling, more palliative care, and better end-of-life planning on the &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/07/end-of-life-care-and-counseling-varies-with-disease-type/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div styl

<p>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: This entry was originally published on IJFAB Blog December 19 of 2014.  In the early hours of July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling of Baton Rouge, LA was shot dead by police. He was a father, selling CDs outside &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/07/telling-tales-narratives-about-black-men-and-obesity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso

<p>In April 2016, my colleague Liz Goodnick and I hosted our first Undergraduate Women in Philosophy conference at MSU Denver. It was a tremendous success. We thought that this would be a great way to help positively change the climate &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/07/the-first-msud-undergraduate-women-in-philosophy-conference-and-the-climate-for-women-in-philosophy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div styl

<p>As LGBT pride month in the U.S. draws to a close, The Courier-Post brings us an article on LGBT patients&#8217; access to health care, with obstacles ranging from stigmatizing treatment and discrimination to lack of access to health insurance due &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/06/access-to-health-care-for-lgbt-patients-in-the-us/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: This blog entry is based on a paper presented by Prof. Reiheld at FAB Congress 2016 in Edinburgh. Philosopher Sandra Bartky persuasively argued for a Foucauldian framework conceptualizing femininity as a disciplinary regime that creates docile bodies through &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/06/not-the-parity-we-want-disordered-eating-and-normative-appetites-in-north-american-men-and-women/">Continue reading <span clas

<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: At the 2016 FAB Congress in Edinburgh, Prof. Carol Quinn agreed to join IJFAB blog as a regular contributor. Her first contribution draws on one of the features about her that distinguishes her from so many other philosophers: she &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/06/writing-fiction-as-a-philosopher-and-bioethicist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-

<p>Last week, during the distraction of FAB Congress and World Congress of Bioethics, you would be forgiven for not taking note that the American Medical Association&#8211;also having its annual meeting at the time&#8211;voted to accept a new version of its Code &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/06/new-ama-code-of-ethics-and-other-measures-including-on-feminine-hygeine-products-and-eating-disorders-adopted-at-ama-meeting/">Continue reading <s

<p>The most excellent Kelly Danielle, who has recently become involved with FAB and was at FAB Congress in Edinburgh, volunteered to &#8220;storify&#8221; FAB 2016 tweets. As you may know, twitter presents the most recent tweet first. This can make it &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/06/tweeting-a-fab-congress-2016-narrative/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" cl

<p>FAB Congress kicked off this morning with an excellent talk by Prof. Kate Hunt at University of Glasgow in Scotland. Hunt is the Associate Director at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit. Hunt&#8217;s paper described gender differences in &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/06/fab-congress-in-full-swing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hu

<p>FAB Congress begins Monday June 13 in Edinburgh Scotland, meeting in conjunction with the World Congress of Bioethics. Going or thinking about going? You can find Abstracts and the Conference Schedule online. FAB is affiliated with the International Association of &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/06/fab-congress-edinburgh-starts-a-week-from-today/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20

<p>Many folks who even casually attend to advertising and inspirational messages about fitness&#8211;&#8220;fitspo&#8221;&#8211;will notice that messages divide into the categories of push messages (disincentives to being less active) or pull messages (incentives to being more active). Push messages often rely &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/05/push-vs-pull-factors-very-different-messages-for-improving-activity-levels-and-promoting-health/"

<p>In 2013, Rafael Campo&#8211;then associate professor of medicine at Harvard&#8211;won the Hippocrates Open International Prize for Poetry and Medicine.  First, let us be grateful that there is such a thing, a thing to draw beauty out of what isn&#8217;t always. &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/05/the-poetry-of-hands-on-healing-and-the-failure-to-do-so/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bott

<p>Over at the American Journal of Bioethics blog, bioethicist and new IJFAB blogger Keisha Ray has published an excellent piece on racial disparities in pain management titled INEFFICIENT PAIN MANAGEMENT FOR BLACK PATIENTS SHOWS THAT THERE IS A FINE LINE BETWEEN &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/05/keisha-ray-on-racial-disparities-on-pain-management/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20

<p>Still considering whether to attend FAB Congress 2016, meeting jointly with the World Congress of Bioethics in Edinburgh However, the solution to the problem of hair loss be identified before beginning treatment, so as not to cause sildenafil viagra serious &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/05/fab-congress-2016-program-is-now-available/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-

<p>This morning I opened the New York Times to discover a photograph of 16 African-American women who are graduating from West Point this year, posing in their dress greys, as is tradition. My first thought was “Wow, 16 African-American women &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/05/white-anxiety-and-black-bodies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-

<p>I am pleased to announce that Alison Reiheld is assuming Editorship of the IJFAB Blog. While I hope to still make the occasional contribution, I am stepping down as part of the journal’s transition to its new institutional home at &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/05/join-me-in-welcoming-the-new-ijfab-blog-editor-alison-reiheld/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px

<p>In 1986, an article was published in Commonweal encapsulating a view that to some people seems deeply incongruous.  The author of this article was Sidney Callahan and the article was entitled &#8220;A Case for Pro-Life Feminism.&#8221; The views Callahan laid out &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/04/pro-life-feminism-a-catholic-feminist-philosopher-considers-the-consequences-of-punishing-women-for-seeking-abortions/">Continue reading <span

<p>Over at the Baltimore Sun, Anne Drapkin Lyerly, Carleigh Krubiner, and Ruth Faden have penned an excellent op-ed on the need for further research on pregnant women.  They write: Pregnant women are at the crux of Zika&#8217;s most devastating consequences. &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2016/04/anne-drapkin-lyerly-carleigh-krubiner-and-ruth-faden-pen-a-passionate-call-to-look-broadly-at-pregnant-womens-health-through-the-lens-of-the-zika-viru