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It’s About Testosterone?
<p>From the New York Times It’s about testosterone? Hardly. Some athletic authorities are now requiring women athletes to have their clitorises partially removed if their testosterone is “too high”? On the grounds that high testosterone is an unfair advantage? Even … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/04/its-about-testosterone/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Apr 23, 20142 min read


Constraints on Medical Autonomy for Pregnant Women
<p>I have written on diminished autonomy for pregnant women before for IJFAB blog in my piece, <a href="http://www.ijfab.org/blog/not-all-objectification-is-sexual-the-return-of-the-fetal-container/">Not All Objectification Is Sexual: The Return of the Fetal Container</a>. That piece, like Minkoff and Lyerly’s excellent 2010 <a href="http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Publications/HCR/Detail.aspx?id=4955">piece</a> in <i>Hastings Center Report</i>, dealt broadly with the cho
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Apr 17, 20146 min read


Body Image, BMI, and the Continuing Problem of the Standards of Beauty
<p>Feminist scholars have, for many years now, analyzed and interpreted the problems of body image that plague Western culture. Susan Bordo, Sandra Lee Bartky, Susie Orbach, and bell hooks are only a couple examples of prominent feminists who have examined the problem of how women understand their bodies, the cultural expectations for women’s bodies, and how these expectations produce a skewed body image that has little to do with “health.”</p>
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Apr 15, 20144 min read


Turf Wars
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Apr 11, 20144 min read


E-Cigarettes: Is Liquid Nicotine Safe?
<p>This version of this post originally appeared on the Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s blog. The debate over e-cigarettes has been heating up. Are the smokeless, battery-powered, nicotine-dispensing devices a gateway to smoking for young people or a helpful way … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/04/e-cigarettes-is-liquid-nicotine-safe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Apr 7, 20144 min read


Sleep Donation
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Mar 28, 20141 min read


Crowdsourcing Medical Decisions
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Mar 24, 20141 min read


The Fat Drug
<p>Hard to know where to start on this issue, given all the ethical ramifications, starting with questions about informed consent in the experiments on humans, the failure of government There cialis overnight delivery are many different types of heart diseases. … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/03/the-fat-drug/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Mar 17, 20141 min read


Denying the Patient In Front Of You: Recent Studies of Transgender Patients’ Experiences in the ER Confirms Prior Results about Poor Treatment of Transgender Persons in Clinical Settings
<p style="text-align: left">Two studies which have recently hit the press reinforce a problem I have been considering for some time, namely the difficulties which transgender persons face in getting care. Herein, I will give an overview of these difficulties, the new studies, what they reveal about causes of provider’s behavior with respect to trans persons, and some brief recommendations for how providers can do better.</p>
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Mar 14, 20149 min read


A Silent Killer of Women — Suicide
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Mar 11, 20141 min read


Recommended Reading: Andrew Solomon’s Far from the Tree
<p>Knowing something about my work on ethics and atypical sex anatomies in children, several people have recommended Andrew Solomon’s Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (2012). Each of the chapters is devoted to children with … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/03/recommended-reading-andrew-solomons-far-from-the-tree/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Mar 10, 20143 min read


The Diversity Gap in the Academy Awards
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Mar 5, 20141 min read


100% Men
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Mar 4, 20141 min read


3-Parent IVF
<p>In the last week, the UK government has launched a public consultation on regulating a proposed new reproductive technology, variously known as mitochondrial replacement/transfer/donation. At about the same time, it was announced that the US Food and Drug Administration was … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/03/3-parent-ivf/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Mar 3, 20144 min read


Presumed Incompetent: Treatment of Persons in Long-Term and In-Patient Psychiatric Care Facilities
<p>Over at Feministing, Katie has a pretty solid analysis of the recent case of a woman in an independent living facility who was unambiguously raped by a male employee. After reporting the rape, to which the perpetrator confessed, the survivor … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/02/presumed-incompetent-treatment-of-persons-in-long-term-and-in-patient-psychiatric-care-facilities/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Feb 28, 20144 min read


Atrium Magazine
<p>This is a guest post by Alice Dreger Our program in Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, in Chicago publishes a magazine called Atrium. Each issue features a specific medical humanities theme to which all contributions, graphic and … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/02/atrium-magazine/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Feb 22, 20142 min read


True Romance: got consent?
<p>This Valentine’s Day, folks across the country will be either ignoring the romantic vibes altogether, deriding the holiday, praising the single life, celebrating an ongoing romance, or trying to start a new one. For folks seeking out companionship, relationships can … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/02/true-romance-got-consent/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Feb 14, 20143 min read


The F-Word
<p>Barnard College’s new podcast series, Dare to Use the F-Word, tells the story of today’s feminists through the ideas, art, and activism that define them. Barnard President Debora Spar, in her new book Wonder Women: Sex, Power & the Quest The herb’s ability … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/02/the-f-word/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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Feb 14, 20141 min read


Feminist Conference Speaker Bingo
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Feb 12, 20141 min read


How one professor’s American dream — teaching — turned into the American nightmare
<p>The adjunct crises has been picked up by PBS. All such talks and thoughts makes one go,Oh no! But yes its a fact and generic cialis price individuals who have dealt or are dealing with it knows it better than … <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/02/how-one-professors-american-dream-teaching-turned-into-the-american-nightmare/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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