In the US, a crisis has arisen due to government handling of much larger than usual numbers of asylum-seeking migrants at the southern border. Most are coming not from Mexico but through Mexico from other Central American and South American … Continue reading
IJFAB Blog is beginning a new occasional series, “Decolonizing IJFAB Blog.” Medical Ethics has long been dominated by North American / European toolkits and contexts. This is certainly true of this Blog even though we are associated with the International … Continue reading
Two years ago, in the wake of an incident in which a black woman doctor attempted to render medical aid and was dismissed due to doubt that she was a physician, IJFAB Blog featured a post on the issue of … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: This is Part 4 in the IJFAB Blog mini-series on pedagogy, with a focus on teaching about oppression, disadvantage, and privilege. Part 1 dealt with dogmatically unyielding students, while Parts 2 and 3 gave the professor and student sides … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: Part 3 in our pedagogy mini-series comes to us from Elon University student Arianne Payne, an African-American woman who reflects on taking a course on rap, one which touches on racism and black culture, from a white male professor … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: As part of our mini-series on pedagogy–which kicked off with Kate MacKay’s reflection last week on unyielding dogmatism in the classroom–IJFAB Blog features a two-part consideration by a professor and a student on issues arising from classes in which … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: Many IJFAB Blog readers spend a good part of their lives in teaching settings, doing pedagogy as teacher or learner or co-inquirer. Some are clinician educators (nurse educators or physicians working with residents and medical students), others are academic … Continue reading
In the US, researchers at academic institutions who do work with human research participants must obtain the approval of an Institutional Review Board (IRB) that looks to assure that research protocols do not violate ethical requirements for such research. Washington … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: This blog comes to us from Sayer Johnson, who blogged for IJFAB Blog in the past on the issue of how clinicians respond to trans patients. Here, Mr. Johnson reaches a frustrated breaking point with the way that … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: In the past year, IJFAB Blog has featured several blog entries on shifting pronoun usage not only in the English language but in the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics itself. IJFAB Editor Jackie Leach Scully brings us this reflection on IJFAB’s revised pronoun … Continue reading
Over in the well-regarded journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, we find the new Winter 2017 issue (Vol 60 Iss 1), a special issue on “Disciplines of Bioethics: Personal Perspectives.” While there are valuable reflections from physicians, philosophers (Franklin Miller), lawyers and … Continue reading
Our parent journal, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Lo those many years ago in Spring of 2008, our first issue, Doing Feminist Bioethics, was published. In the second issue, Lyerly, Little, and Faden’s article on … Continue reading
