<p>The Comparative and International Political Economy group at the LSE hosted a half-day discussion of Thomas Piketty, politics, and social policy, on the growing economic inequalities that Piketty and his collaborators document and what can be done about them, based &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/03/four-reports-from-an-afternoon-on-thomas-piketty-at-the-lse-part-3-piketty-politics-and-policy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&ra

<p>Oliver Sacks gave the Beatty lecture on the mysteries of the brain at McGill University in Montréal in October of 1997. I had the pleasure of being one of the many attending this exciting lecture. I write &#8220;exciting&#8221; as Sacks &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/03/lessons-great-and-small/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><

<p>A group of political science and social policy faculty gathered at the LSE on March 9 to foster the conversation around politics and social policy in an era of widening inequalities. As I wrote in my last post, I have a &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/03/four-reports-from-an-afternoon-on-thomas-piketty-at-the-lse-part-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" cla

<p>What does the Occupy Wall Street slogan of the 99% and the 1% have to do with bioethics? I have just worked through edits with Kate Caras, our senior managing editor at IJFAB, of my review essay, “Piketty and the &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/03/economic-inequality-politics-and-social-policy-four-reports-from-an-afternoon-on-thomas-piketty-at-the-lse-part-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="pad

<p>Guest post by Alana Cattapan (York University, Dalhousie University) The use of science fiction to make sense of reproductive technologies is nothing new. As new advances in assisted reproduction make headlines, journalists, politicians, and policymakers alike herald their trajectory “from &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/03/a-fictive-reality-science-fiction-dystopia-and-assisted-reproduction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rar

<p>Update 3/8/14: Advocates for Informed Choice just posted an annotated video of the segment, and it is fantastic. A recent Nightlight segment featured a promising story of the treatment of individuals born with atypical sex anatomies. It included the story of &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/03/compounding-the-harm-of-normalizing-treatment-of-intersex/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-botto

<p>During this year’s Super Bowl, the feminine hygiene company Always released a commercial-cum-PSA that brought renewed interest to and awareness of the hashtag #LikeAGirl. The ad was by far one of the most moving spots that aired during the Super &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/03/likeagirl-girl-power-the-persistence-of-difference/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:

<p>The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), a governmental regulatory agency in the United Kingdom, is ready to allow a technique that prevents women with mitochondrial DNA disease from transmitting the faulty DNA to their children. The HFEA position follows &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/03/innovative-techniques-in-human-reproduction-an-ethical-controversy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <di

<p>In celebration of the 20th year of its Bioethics Programme, UNESCO has published an edited anthology, Global Bioethics: What For? It is freely available in its entirely online and features short essays by IJFAB advisory board member and one-time guest-contributor Daniel Callahan as &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/02/twenty-years-of-bioethics-at-unesco/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bot

<p>Some terms are quite revealing. Men are described as funnier across all disciplines, women as usually more unfair and incompetent. The site has simple, well-designed interface. The best thing about this canadian viagra pills medicine is the availability in the &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/02/searchable-database-of-language-in-teacher-reviews-by-gender/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-

<p>Well, this is despicable: The case of Terry Cawthorn and Mission Hospital, in Asheville, N.C., gives a glimpse of how some hospital officials around the country have shrugged off an epidemic. Cawthorn was a nurse at Mission for more than &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/02/hospital-to-nurses-your-injuries-are-not-our-problem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;"

<p>Last night on her show, Rachel Maddow aired an interview with Ruth Bader Ginsburg in which RBG was asked about the future of reproductive freedom in the United States. Because of this Court’s adherence to judicial precedence, she is optimistic. &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/02/justice-ginsburg-on-reproductive-freedom/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" clas

<p>&nbsp; &#8220;Trigger Warnings &amp; Neoliberal Classrooms: Rethinking Pedagogy in Our Time of Precarity,&#8221; an interdisciplinary panel and discussion, will take place at the Stony Brook University Humanities Institute on Wednesday, February 18th at 4:00pm. We would like to begin the discussion here &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/02/trigger-warnings-and-neoliberal-classrooms-an-ongoing-pedagogical-discussion/">Continue reading <span

<p>Find more at the Feminist Armchair Regime. &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/02/feminist-valentines-day-cards/">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.hupso.com/share/ --><a class="hupso_toolbar" href="https://www.hupso.com/share/"><img src="https://static.hupso.com/share/buttons/share-small.png" sty

<p>Active members of FAB can now access the electronic edition of IJFAB on Project Muse, a database of more than 550 humanities and social science journals from 200-plus university presses and scholarly societies around the world that is managed by &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/02/enhanced-ijfab-access-for-fab-members/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class=

<p>One analysis claimed that in 2013 nine out of the top ten drug makers spent more on marketing than they did on research. Drug companies are a bit like high-school boyfriends: they&#8217;re much more concerned with getting inside you And the popular &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/02/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver-marketing-to-doctors/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padd

<p>IJFAB Blog editor emeritus Tim R. Johnston on feminism, queer theory, care ethics, the centrality of the concept of affirmation, reasons Sildenafil citrate stood a vital component in levitra lowest price , which acts resourcefully to ease down the impediments of &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/02/an-ecological-response-to-bullying/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top

<p>In a recent New York Times op-ed, Saad Omer, an associate professor of global health, epidemiology, and pediatrics at Emory University, suggested several reasonable measures to “nudge” vaccines skeptics into vaccinating their children. “We should borrow a concept from behavioral &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/02/dont-tread-on-me-the-irony-of-opting-out-of-vaccination-in-an-era-of-decreasing-reproductive-freedom/">Continue reading <span

<p>Our health care system is well honed to fight disease, but poorly designed to meet the basic safety needs of seriously ill patients and their families. We can do both. We must. People who are approaching the end of life &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/02/dying-shouldnt-be-so-brutal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!-- Hupso Sha

<p>The story of cross-dressing Hollywood DJ Tatiana Alvarez has recently gotten attention—mostly because Warner Brothers has bought the rights to her story. Alvarez dressed as a man and booked her gigs using her male persona (Matt Muset aka DJ Musikillz) &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/02/dress-for-the-job-you-want-passing-women-then-today/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; paddi