The Covid-19 pandemic is currently accompanied by a parallel outbreak of bioethical and clinical ethical discussion offering guidance for the difficult decisions that healthcare professionals and others face as the pandemic develops. Right at the moment there is a strong … Continue reading
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
Being a parent of someone in an especially vulnerable group makes one feel like you are sitting on a ticking bomb–in addition to the anxiety we all feel during this time of pandemic. I am hiding out in our lovely … Continue reading
Over at Vice yesterday, Rachael Sigee has an article that is worth a look: When Domestic Abuse Destroys Your Childbirth Plan. The subtitle? “Over a third of domestic violence gets worse or starts during pregnancy. Two women break down what … Continue reading
Whenever we see stories about the “plight” of women in developing nations, it’s critically important to step back and ask whether the journalistic framing is rooted in condescending colonialism, painting a picture of a problem as affecting women in the … Continue reading
Over at Canada’s Impact Ethics blog, feminist bioethicists and disability theorists Teresa Blankmeyer Burke and Jackie Leach Scully reflect on the Russian project to use CRISPR technologies to “correct a mutation that leads to hereditary deafness.” Blankmeyer Burke and Scully … Continue reading
There is an article that I suggest ought to be read as widely as possible. Underneath the anti-vaxxer exterior lies much scientific misinformation, compounded by phobias, conspiracy theories, and general hubris that views those who take science and medicine to … Continue reading
The American Medical Association is intervening in the rapid increase of state legal restrictions on abortion for the first time, according to an article published in TIME magazine this morning. The American Medical Association is suing North Dakota to block … Continue reading
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
James Sheridan Wood 1931-2019 Died peacefully in hospice May 22, 2019 after a long struggle by his family to get him end-of-life care in the U.S. health care system. I wish I could write about the spiritual and emotional meaningfulness … Continue reading
EDITOR’S NOTE: This blog entry comes to us from Heather Stewart, M.A. Stewart is a Ph.D. candidate at Western University and is a member of the Time to Attach Research Team. Here, she speaks about the feminist bioethics issue of … Continue reading
We recently shared an IJFAB Blog guest blog by Heather Stewart and Lauren Freeman on microaggressions facing transgender folks seeking medical care. In this blog, Heather Stewart focuses on microaggressions facing bisexual persons in medical contexts. Stewart addresses numerous features … Continue reading
