Latest IJFAB Issue, Vol 17 no. 1
Updated: Jul 1, 2025
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
