Latest IJFAB Issue, Vol 17 no. 1

Check out the fantastic lineup of articles in the latest issue of IJFAB!

• Zoe L. Tongue, “Locating Abortion and Contraception on the Obstetric Violence Continuum”: An argument for the extension of the category of obstetric violence, typically focused on childbirth, to cases of coerced contraception and abortion grounded in Martha Fineman’s vulnerability theory.

• Melanya Schift, “Being an Anorectic versus Having Anorexia: Should the DSM Diagnostic Criteria Be Modified?”: A critical examination of the distinction between anorexia as a diagnosis and as an identity, especially as related to the diagnostic criterion of low body weight, and consideration of whether and how diagnostic criteria should be altered in response.

• Richard Matthews, “The Moral Asymmetry of Conscientious Provision and Conscientious Refusal: Insights from Oppression and Allyship”: Argues against the view that where conscientious refusal is supported, conscientious provision should be as well through a critical intersectional analysis of conscientious provision in Canadian healthcare.

• Marie-Alexia Masella & Béatrice Godard, “The Contribution of Empowerment to Bioethics in the Obstetric Care Context”: A discussion of the relevance of contemporary references to health empowerment for feminist bioethics, especially in the realm of obstetrics.

• Lisa Brünig, Mirjam Faissner, Regina Müller, & Stefanie Weigold, “A Feminist Bioethics Conference in Qatar? Critical Viewpoints and an Impulse for Further Discussion”: A commentary on the recent FAB/WCB from the German Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics and Bioethics focusing on the potential for LGBTQ+ participation in the conference and the potential for anti-Muslim bias in assessments of the conference location.

• Joshua Stein, Review of When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics by Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi

• Tina Ngyuen, Review of Live Like Nobody Is Watching: Relational Autonomy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Health Monitoring by Anita Ho

• Chioma Dibia, Review of Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People’s Health by Keisha Ray