The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics welcomes enquiries regarding book reviews. Our process is supportive, so if you’re a student or a more seasoned academic please do consider getting in touch if there is something on your radar … Continue reading
A new study from Oxford University finds that the slightly elevated risk of breast cancer due to use of hormonal birth control pills extends across all forms of hormonal birth control. While earlier findings showing a similar increased risk were … Continue reading
On Monday, April 3rd at 12pm Pacific/3pm Eastern (find your local time zone here) the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) affinity group on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics is hosting a virtual works-in-progress session for scholars to get feedback … Continue reading
This is how Zahra Nader a freelance journalist describes Afghanistan under current Taliban rule to Amy Goodman on Democracy Now this week. In a week that saw many protests across the world tied to International Women’s Day, a small group … Continue reading
Just passing on this announcement relevant to folks working in feminist bioethics: The Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency is pleased to host an online workshop on Epistemic Injustice and Agency in Psychiatry and Mental Health, on 10 … Continue reading
Hi, folks. IJFAB Blog Editors, here, with a quick roundup of links about the health and ethical issues that arise in the wake of any natural disaster, and specifically last week’s earthquake affecting Syria and Turkey. The death toll is … Continue reading
Dear Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Affinity Group Members, Please save the date for an upcoming workshop on publishing feminist work in bioethics journals which FAB is hosting via Zoom on Friday June 3rd at noon pacific (Los Angeles)/3pm eastern (New York). The workshop will feature: Anna … Continue reading
CALL FOR PAPERSedited volume: Disability Justice in Emergency Conditions DESCRIPTION The COVID-19 pandemic brought into the foreground—and exacerbated—a host of existing social inequities and injustices, including and especially those facing disabled people. Prior to the pandemic, people with disabilities across … Continue reading
In 2003, Harriet McBryde Johnson famously engaged Peter Singer to discuss his views on disabled persons. Like so many before him–utilitarians or not–Singer argued that the lives of disabled persons involved more suffering and less joy than non-disabled persons, and … Continue reading
In June of 2020, when US President Trump formally expressed his intention to withdraw from the WHO just as the scope of the COVID-19 pandemic had become clear, this also meant withdrawing from COVAX, the international program intended to change … Continue reading
As 2020 comes to a close, we have news out of Argentina that decades of feminist pro-choice activism have come to fruition: the Senate has passed a bill that came through the House recently, decriminalizing abortion up through 14 weeks … Continue reading
Argentina’s Congress has legalised abortions up to the 14th week of pregnancy, with the Senate approving the measure by a vote of 38-29. Prior to the vote, abortion was only allowed in the case of rape or a threat to … Continue reading