<p>Did you know that World Bioethics Day was established in 2015? It is celebrated every October 19th. This year&#8217;s theme is &#8220;Non-Discrimination and Non-Stigmatization&#8221; &#8211; a topic ripe for, and in many ways reflecting, feminist approaches to bioethics. (How) are &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/10/october-19th-is-world-bioethics-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bott

<p>People research trans feminist bioethics who do archival work should check out this great new opportunity, funded by the Mellon Foundation. From project co-director Hil Malatino: The project, &#8220;Widening the Arc of Trans History: Archival Research for Public Storytelling,&#8221; will &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/09/opportunity-mellon-grant-widening-the-arc-of-trans-history/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a

<p>On the blog we&#8217;ve previously shared a sneak preview of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) plans for the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) Affinity Group. The upcoming session features one of the blog co-editors! Now we&#8217;re providing &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/09/asbh-feminist-approaches-to-bioethics-affinity-group/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="paddin

<p>Check out the fantastic lineup of articles in the latest issue of IJFAB! Zoe L. Tongue, &#8220;Locating Abortion and Contraception on the Obstetric Violence Continuum”: An argument for the extension of the category of obstetric violence, typically focused on childbirth, &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/08/latest-ijfab-issue-vol-17-no-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding

<p>We are very excited to announce details on the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics affinity group session (organized by Lindsey Grubbs, Case Western Reserve University) at ASBH 2024, which will take place from 1-2pm CST on Friday, Sept. 20. We have &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/08/fab-affinity-group-session-at-asbh-in-september-on-crossover-between-feminist-bioethics-and-disability-bioethics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr

<p>In May of this year, Taylor &amp; Francis (which also owns Routledge) sold access to its research to Microsoft for about $10million. Taylor &amp; Francis’ parent company confirmed to Bookseller that &#8220;it is providing Microsoft non-exclusive access to advanced learning content &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/07/publishers-sell-access-to-research-as-ai-training-data-responses-from-feminist-bioethicists/">Continue reading <span class="

<p>Bioethics / medical ethics folks, and people who work on reproduction, obstetrics, and gynecology may want this on their radar: Black women with sickle cell anemia pressured to undergo sterilization. It&#8217;s clearly not forced sterilization, and more like coerced sterilization &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/07/reminder-that-informed-consent-can-be-violated-in-subtle-ways-we-have-to-watch-out-for-especially-for-minoritized-women/">Con

<p>FABGab Episode 2 is now live with Prof. Wendy Rogers talking about her work with Jacqueline Dalziell on &#8220;What Feminist Bioethics can bring to Synthethic Biology&#8221; available in Volume 16 Issue 2 of the journal here. It&#8217;s fascinating paper applying &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/06/fabgab-episode-2-now-live/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;"

<p>This June the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) and Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) is meeting at the World Congress of Bioethics/FAB Congress in Qatar, where the new IAB President was announced to be Dr. Caesar Atuire. Dr. Atuire is &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/06/iab-fab-congress-in-qatar-and-new-iab-president/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-t

<p>The COVID-19 pandemic brought the already growing industry of telemedicine into most of our phones, homes, and healthcare routines. Telemedicine–or the connection of patient and physician by virtual means such as videocall or secure messaging–has become a key lifeline for &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/05/telemedicine-extending-care-or-delegating-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bott

<p>This is a draft of the FAB 2024 Schedule. It is a final-ish draft which is always subject to a few changes. Please get in touch with Jackie and Anna with any questions&#8230;and we will try to do our best. &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/05/draft-of-fab-2024-schedule/">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 - ht

<p>For our next installment of our Feminist Bioethics Scholar Spotlight Series, we have Nicole Fice, PhD, Assistant Professor at Trent University. Read on to learn more about Nicole and her work. What drew you to bioethics? In other words, what’s &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/05/feminist-bioethics-scholar-spotlight-nicole-fice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px

<p>Dr Kathryn MacKay was the amazing host of FABGab a podcast talking to authors about their papers published in the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. The episodes provide great overviews and insights into papers and the writing process. &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/05/fabgab-is-back/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-sh

<p>Check out these recently published articles likely to be of interest to feminist bioethicists! Siobhan de Lange, Dee Muller, &amp; Chloe Dafkin, &#8220;Biomedical research on autism in low- and middle-income countries: Considerations from the South African context,” Developing World Bioethics &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/04/new-articles-of-interest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bot

<p>This installment of the Feminist Bioethics Scholar Spotlight series features Regina Müller. Dr. Müller is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Bremen. Her professional background is in philosophy, history of arts (University Regensburg), and &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/04/feminist-bioethics-scholar-spotlight-regina-muller/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div sty

<p>In this installment of our IJFAB Blog Feminist Bioethics Spotlight Series we&#8217;re spotlighting a new book by Lauren Freeman and Heather Stewart just out this spring as part of the Bioethics for Social Justice Series with Oxford University Press. It &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/03/feminist-bioethics-book-spotlight-microaggressions-in-medicine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom

<p>For our first in our new Feminist Bioethics Scholar Spotlight Series we are thrilled to feature Desiree Valentine, PhD, who is currently an Assistant Professor in the philosophy department at Marquette University. Read on to learn more about Desiree, her &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/03/feminist-bioethics-scholar-spotlight-desiree-valentine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px;

<p>Get in touch to review some of the great titles coming out this year! 2024 is shaping up to be great book year and there were some great titles closing out 2023 as well.. The International Journal of Feminist Approaches &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/03/book-review-updates/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!-- Hupso Share Butto

<p>Readers of the IJFAB blog will be aware that the 2024 FAB conference has been facing some unprecedented difficulties. A bit of background:  Because FAB arose out of a special interest group on feminist bioethics within IAB, for many years &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/03/organizers-note-fab-in-qatar-2024/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-shar

<p>Since our last post on the issue in November, the series of health crises facing Palestinians has worsened considerably. After 140 days of escalated hostilities and ongoing Israeli bombardment, both basic utilities and healthcare infrastructure have been decimated, leaving those &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/02/gaza-health-crises-in-news-and-scholarship/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding