A guest essay from Dr. Zohar Lederman , Center for Medical Ethics and Law, The University of Hong Kong The International Journal for Feminist Approaches to Bioethics’ (IJFAB) aims to increase attention to the social, economic, and environmental determinants of health. It represents at least to some extent feminist bioethics as a whole. While feminist bioethics is not practiced solely by non-male scholars, feminist bioethics feminist bioethics is committed to addressing the c

Thoughts on “The Case” in Public Bioethics This year I’ve been contemplating the ethics of highly publicized bioethics “cases.” Here I am thinking about medical (or medical-related) individual patient situations that enter mainstream awareness through news media, and then are debated in the public sphere, as well as among academic bioethicists. I am writing from the United States, where there is a history of these public cases shaping bioethics as a field. We can name patient

<p>In this essay by Rachel Fabi, Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Education in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University, Dr. Fabi provides a helpful explainer about the public comment process in the United States &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2025/04/bioethics-and-public-notice-and-comment-in-federal-rulemaking-a-post-by-ethicist-rachel-fabi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>Today is World Bioethics Day and the global theme is &#8220;non-discrimination and non-stigmatization.&#8221; The ongoing genocide in Gaza is an extreme example of discrimination and stigmatization, a health crisis, and a global injustice. We&#8217;re using today to add to our &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2024/10/world-bioethics-day-2024-bioethics-and-gaza/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-