New Articles of Interest

Check out these recently published articles likely to be of interest to feminist bioethicists! Siobhan de Lange, Dee Muller, & Chloe Dafkin, “Biomedical research on autism in low- and middle-income countries: Considerations from the South African context,” Developing World Bioethics … Continue reading

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Upcoming Feminist/Bioethics Conference Roundup

A handful of upcoming conferences that would be great places to submit or experience new works in feminist approaches to bioethics. Calls for Proposals due May 15th, 2023 The History & Philosophy of Pregnancy – a hybrid conference at the … Continue reading

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Episode 10 out now! FAB Gab with guest Kate Mason

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FAB Gab Episode 9 is out now: Mercer Gary on Care Robots

According to George Osborne, it is a shame that it has to come to that, but, hey!, better safe than sorry, or not? When I first started out online, just like several ‘newbies’, I was at a loss for the … Continue reading

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Covid19 and the Spirit of Seriousness
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Editor’s Note: There had been many COVID-19 patient narratives, some from health care providers and public health experts who have themselves contracted the illness. But there have been relatively few from philosophers working in bioethics. Here is one such narrative … Continue reading

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Invisible Vulnerables
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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

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Cruel and Inefficient: The Difficulty of Aging and Dying Well in America
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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

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Western University Researchers Release Report Advocating for More “Time to Attach” for People Who Provide Permanency to Children
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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

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“More an Inmate Than a Patient…”: check out this consideration of autonomy and long-term care settings
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Bioethicists have long been alert to the delicate dance of preserving patient autonomy in long-term residential care settings such as nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, and other institutional settings where patients may reside for extended periods of time in the U.S. … Continue reading

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Persons as Producers: Why bioethics should be concerned with work culture and the structure of labor
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Today, May 1, is known in the labor rights movement as May Day or International Workers’ Day. It celebrates the dignity of laboring humans and the right to be seen as and live as fully human. I want to use … Continue reading

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Seek each other out: Nothing About Us Without Us, Autism Awareness Month, and the centering of autistic persons
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April is Autism Awareness Month in the U.S.  All too often, the rhetoric around autism is shaped by the needs and voices of the caregivers and families of people who are autistic. Goodness knows the perspectives of caregivers and families … Continue reading

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