Anyone planning or hoping to attend the virtual format of the World Congress of Bioethics and Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Congress should download the eventScribe app. There will be scheduled streamed keynote speakers, and over 300 unscheduled talks–audio tracks over … Continue reading
Information here is taken from the World Congress of Bioethics/FAB Congress website and copied here for your convenience. If you haven’t registered yet, you can still register for FAB-only, WCB-only, or FAB+WCB at the reduced virtual conference rates. VIRTUAL DETAILS: … Continue reading
Starting June 1st, the Journal of Philosophy of Disability (JPD) will begin accepting submissions. The JPD is a new peer-reviewed journal dedicated to questions regarding disability, broadly construed, and it is the first of its kind. Edited by Joel Michael … Continue reading
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A recent article by Kimberly Seals Allers discusses how COVID-19 safety restrictions related to giving birth and breastfeeding could potentially disproportionately harm black and Native American women. Photo courtesy of Women’s E-News Some hospitals are now classifying not only family … Continue reading
A recent report by the WHO, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) and the Lancet Commission, ranked the probability of children being able to “flourish” in 180 countries, examining factors such as education, nutrition and child mortality and carbon emission … Continue reading
Inside Higher Ed recently offered a quick glance at income disparities from the American Association of Medical Colleges 2019 faculty data. IMPORTANT: this graph is of medical faculty, not regular humanities/university professors, who make much much much less than this. … Continue reading
The IJFAB Blog editors have been on break to focus on family during the Northern Hemisphere’s winter holidays. We will be posting some great new content this coming week including reflections by a bioethicist obstetrician, reflections on disability and bioethics, … Continue reading
A recent study has shown that birth rates increase by 5% on days with temperatures over 90 degrees. Additionally, the World Health Organization notes that higher air temperatures have been linked to heat stroke and higher pollen levels, which can … Continue reading
In case you missed it, in June of 2019, Nature covered efforts by the multinational African Academy of Sciences (AAS), founded in 1985, to develop ethical guidelines on handling data. Their goal: to make sure that Africans benefit from research … Continue reading
A recent article has brought attention to a troubling policy in Poland surrounding the use of surplus frozen embryos left over from in-vitro fertilization treatment (IVF). IVF requires fertilization of an egg outside of the womb, and embryos not used … Continue reading
Today is International Day to End Violence Against Women. The World Health Organization has a very helpful Twitter thread on the topic. One of their tweets links to this RESPECT framework for preventing Violence Against Women. It may be valuable … Continue reading