<p>Ongoing 21-23 November of 2019, the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law / New Zealand Bioethics Conference is spotlighting work by Māori thinkers. IJFAB Blog readers might want to look more closely at their work, which makes important contributions &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/11/maori-theorists-working-in-bioethics-and-justice-spotlighted-at-australasian-association-of-bioethics-and-health-law-and-new-zealand-bioethi

<p>So far in 2019, a measles outbreak in the DR of Congo has killed nearly 5,000 people. A September vaccination initiative by the Congolese government vaccinated an additional 800,000 people. In Samoa, 15 people have died and the government has &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/11/measles-epidemics-news-dr-of-congo-samoa/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class=

<p> The Trump administration plans to limit the scientific and medical research that government agencies use when formulating public health policies, amidst protests from both scientists and physicians that this policy will undermine current scientific foundations for government legislation. A new &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/11/environmental-protection-agency-will-limit-science-used-in-public-health-regulations/">Continue reading <span

<p>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: This Guest Blog comes to us from bioethicists Dr. Nathan Emmerich and Dr. Alexis Paton in response to a flurry of discussion over Sarah Franklin&#8217;s inquiry into bioethics in a recent issue of Nature. Alexis Paton is a &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/11/is-sarah-franklin-a-bioethicist-bioethics-beyond-philosophy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; paddi

<p>THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION to the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Congress (and the World Congress of Bioethics) HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11th, 11:59pm EST! For details on formatting your abstract for FAB Congress, go to: https://iab2020.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/FAB_2020_CFP_August_2019_revised.pdf Today, &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/11/fab-congress-deadline-extended-to-monday-november-11/">Continue readi

<p>I am very grateful to have recently taken on the role of Book Review Editor for the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. In this role, I will be frequently soliciting both books and reviewers for the journal and &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/10/want-to-review-books-here-are-some-tips-on-doing-a-good-job-and-perhaps-doing-it-for-ijfab/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="paddi

<p>A couple of days ago the BBC’s online magazine on disability, Ouch!, published an article about the phenomenon of unwanted touching by nondisabled people that is endured by many people with disabilities. The prompt for the article was the report &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/10/not-up-for-grabs-disabled-folks-respond-to-unwanted-touching/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; pa

<p>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: Sometimes contributors to IJFAB Blog find themselves having an informal conversation in person or on social media about a news event. When these conversations might shed light on otherwise-overlooked issues, a blog entry featuring some of the ideas &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/10/of-exoskeletons-and-technological-solutions-a-conversation-with-alison-reiheld-joe-stramondo-and-jackie-leach-scully/">Continue reading

<p>The Trump administration has been open about their family planning priorities, as evidenced in this 2018 blog post. The administration is pushing abstinence and &#8220;natural family planning&#8221; methods over safe, more effective contraceptives, emphasizing privately held religious values in public &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/10/trump-administration-changes-language-related-to-reproductive-health-on-government-websites-and-documen

<p>Folks whose toolkit does not yet include American Black Feminism and Womanism may want to take a look at the New York Public Library&#8217;s, Black Feminism Introductory Research Guide, the scope of which is described here by Amara Green of &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/09/nypl-black-feminism-introductory-research-guide/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" c

<p>In positive bioethics news, a UN report has found that more women and children survive today than at any other point in history. Since 2000, child deaths have been reduced by nearly half and maternal deaths by over one-third. This &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/09/more-women-and-children-survive-today-than-ever-before/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" clas

<p>The International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) is pleased to invite proposals for panels and papers for presentation at the 2020 World Congress (FAB 2020). A street in Philadelphia is lined with flags from nations around the world. &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/09/fab-2020-call-for-papers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso

<p>Following the two high-profile cases of Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans, parents&#8217; right to pursue medical care for their child deemed futile by doctors is once again at stake in the UK. Photo courtesy of BBC news. Tafida Raqeeb suffered &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/09/parental-autonomy-once-again-at-center-of-uk-controversy-over-childs-care/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:2

<p>Amidst a devastating outbreak, scientists and doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been running clinical trials on experimental Ebola treatments. Now, they have been successful. While an experimental vaccine had been providing protection from catching the virus, the &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/08/after-successful-new-treatment-ebola-considered-curable/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div st

<p>An August 2019 report from the UN on land use and climate change names the production and consumption of meat as a major contributor to climate change. While the report stopped short of calling for vegetarianism or veganism, it emphasized &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/08/un-report-names-meat-consumption-as-major-contributor-to-climate-change/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px

<p>Over at Vice yesterday, Rachael Sigee has an article that is worth a look: When Domestic Abuse Destroys Your Childbirth Plan. The subtitle? &#8220;Over a third of domestic violence gets worse or starts during pregnancy. Two women break down what &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/07/coercion-in-childbirth-destroys-informed-consent-whether-from-docs-or-partners/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="paddi

<p>Whenever we see stories about the &#8220;plight&#8221; of women in developing nations, it&#8217;s critically important to step back and ask whether the journalistic framing is rooted in condescending colonialism, painting a picture of a problem as affecting women in the &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/07/the-desperate-measure-of-womb-removal-in-healthy-young-women-in-rural-india/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a>

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<p>Over at Canada&#8217;s Impact Ethics blog, feminist bioethicists and disability theorists Teresa Blankmeyer Burke and Jackie Leach Scully reflect on the Russian project to use CRISPR technologies to &#8220;correct a mutation that leads to hereditary deafness.&#8221; Blankmeyer Burke and Scully &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/07/feminist-bioethicists-and-disability-theorists-speak-out-on-russias-crispr-deaf-babies/">Continue reading <span

<p>There is an article that I suggest ought to be read as widely as possible. Underneath the anti-vaxxer exterior lies much scientific misinformation, compounded by phobias, conspiracy theories, and general hubris that views those who take science and medicine to &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2019/07/the-echo-chamber-of-the-true-believer-anti-vaxxers-magical-thinking-and-other-disasters/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></