<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

<p>Guest post by Melinda Hall (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Stetson University) In “Human Engineering and Climate Change,” bioethicists S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, and Rebecca Roache argue that anthropogenic climate change is one of the biggest problems humans face as we move &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/02/bioethics-in-catastrophe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px

<p>Thank-you, everyone, for your patience during our two-week, trojan-induced outage. I will continue to tweak features and appearance over the next And while they do so, here is a list of six mistakes that men make while, try to avoid &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/01/ijfab-blog-back-online/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!-- H

<p>Collective memory, like personal memory, is a problematic thing. It is selective, prone to the ravages of time, an ever-fading document written in the minds of a vast network of persons, monuments, and organizations. When it comes to violence against &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/01/the-violence-of-forgetting/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso

<p>IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics invites submissions for its 10th Anniversary Issue, Spring, 2017. Deadline for submission: October 1, 2015. IJFAB welcomes feminist scholarship from any discipline on ethical issues related to If suffering from hypertension, severe heart and kidney diseases If getting &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/01/cfp-ijfab-10th-anniversary-issue/">Continue reading <span class="meta-na

<p>Guest post by Jeff Kirby (Professor, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University). Many members of the international public were surprised and/or shocked to hear that Frank Van Den Bleeken, an incarcerated murderer-rapist, was scheduled to be euthanized in Belgium &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/01/murderer-rapist-almost-euthanized-in-belgium-is-the-public-outcry-warranted/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">

<p>I am a native Russian  &#8212;  I was born there, spent a lot of my childhood there, began my schooling there.  I speak the language.   I know the culture.  And right now, I am at a loss, somewhere between disgusted, &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/01/russias-rough-beast-slouches-on/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!-- Hupso Sh

<p>From The Guardian: Autism, characterised in the past as a result of an “extreme male brain”, is far more prevalent in women than previously thought but is still often untreated because the stereotype focuses on male behaviour; women, it is commonly believed, mask their &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/01/is-the-nhs-failing-women-with-autism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; pa

<p>Over the last week or so, the blogosphere has seen a lot of comment about the tragic (and it is tragic) story of Leelah Alcorn. According to most of the Internet versions, this is a story of a child born &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2015/01/on-leelah-alcorn-and-neat-narratives/">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>This is a reposting of an article from La Via Campensina: International Peasant&#8217;s Movement. Please visit their website for more information. El Salvador has had the highest rate of femicide in the world, with 2, 250 femicides between 2010 and 2013. Guatemala &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/12/femicide-and-impunity-a-humanitarian-crisis-in-central-america-and-a-growing-problem-worldwide/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rar

<p>There have been recent reports on the over-medicalization of older individuals in nursing homes and assisted living residences. This problem is not a new one. Just imagine: you are overworked and there is not enough staff to take care of &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/12/medication-and-aging/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!-

<p>Okay, so no surprise that &#8220;beneath its reasonably serene surface, the website can be as ugly and bitter as 4chan and as mind-numbingly bureaucratic as a Kafka story.&#8221; And perhaps I shouldn&#8217;t have been surprised that only 10% of its &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/12/encyclopedia-frown-wikipedia-is-amazing-but-its-become-a-rancorous-sexist-elitist-stupidly-bureaucratic-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</

<p>Okay, so no surprise that &#8220;beneath its reasonably serene surface, the website can be as ugly and bitter as 4chan and as mind-numbingly bureaucratic as a Kafka story.&#8221; And perhaps I shouldn&#8217;t have been surprised that only 10% of its &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/12/encyclopedia-frown-wikipedia-is-amazing-but-its-become-a-rancorous-sexist-elitist-stupidly-bureaucratic/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</sp

<p>Read about it at The Daily Beast, featuring commentary from Eva Kittay: “Criminalizing these women can lead to the sort of horror stories we hear in the U.S. of pregnant addicts being forced to go cold turkey, to being locked up, &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/12/u-k-court-says-fetal-alcohol-syndrome-isnt-a-crime/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hu

<p>I was shocked when I recently learned about the existence of such a ban. As to doubling down on it now, the title of this Slate article pretty much says it all. See also these reflections from Chemicals like retabolil, but levitra &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/12/fda-panel-endorses-lifetime-ban-on-gay-blood-donation-suggests-gay-men-are-diseased-liars/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-b

<p>Students gave professors they thought were male [in online courses where gender identity was altered without students&#8217; knowledge] much higher evaluations across the board than they did professors they thought were female, regardless of what gender the professors actually were. &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/12/best-way-for-professors-to-get-good-student-evaluations-be-male/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a

<p>Catholic hospitals control 1 out of every 9 hospital beds in the United States, either through direct administration or mergers with other health care systems; in eight states, they control more than 30% of beds. According to a 2013 article &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/12/where-can-i-go-conscientious-objection-the-catholic-church-and-patient-access-to-care/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="pad

<p>Just in case you have not already heard about this, and are not already completely depressed about the state of world, here&#8217;s this account from The Atlantic of Rolling Stone&#8217;s retraction of its earlier story detailing the sexual assault of a young woman using &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/12/the-rolling-stone-fiasco-is-terrible-news-for-rape-survivors/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div styl