Sports are something we made, and we can remake them: trans athletes, fairness, and barriers in sports
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Let me start by echoing Talia Mae Bettcher that transgender women are women and transgender men are men (Bettcher, 2013). The definition of “woman” includes all those individuals who identify as a woman and the definition “man” includes all those … Continue reading

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Don’t miss Florencia Luna’s review of reproductive policies and LGBT issues in Argentina

IJFAB Blog would like to draw your attention to this superb bit of work by Florencia Luna in the Canadian Journal of Bioethics, “From the Middle Ages to the 21st Century. Abortion, Assisted Reproduction Technologies and LGBT Rights in Argentina.” Abstract … Continue reading

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Marie Claire magazine does feminist bioethics
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In a turn that should not be all that surprising given that Teen Vogue has published on evidence-based sexual health and Cosmopolitan has published serious work on sexual harassment and assault, the young person’s fashion and beauty magazine Marie Claire … Continue reading

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Why Trans Exclusionary Feminism is Bad For Everyone
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Editor’s Note: From time to time, IJFAB Blog features  content that isn’t directly about bioethics but is most assuredly about feminism and gender. This helps us to get our own frameworks clear, whether because we agree with the author or are … Continue reading

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April 15 Deadline is coming up for submissions to FAB Congress/World Congress of Bioethics in India
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Editor’s Note: If you have work in feminist bioethics, broadly construed, please submit to FAB Congress, meeting in conjunction with the World Congress of Bioethics later this year in India. These opportunities to be with the global bioethics community and do … Continue reading

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Weight-loss surgery for teens: a disturbing trend
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We bloggers and readers been writing and talking amongst ourselves lately about children, weight, fat shaming, and concerns about policing and medicalizing kids’ bodies. Once you start down this path, it’s really hard to stop. And where does this lead? … Continue reading

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New issue is out! And don’t miss the University of Toronto Press Blog based on an article from the new issue of IJFAB
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The new issue of IJFAB is out with some spectacular articles on topics ranging from childbirth to epistemic injustice to patient noncompliance to Saudi Arabian bioethics. Scroll down to the bottom for the table of contents! The UT Press Blog … Continue reading

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Larry Nassar, Sexual Assault by a Physician, and an Army of Women: IJFAB editors’ take from within the MSU community
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Written by Robyn Bluhm of MSU with input from, and speaking for, the other MSU-affiliated IJFAB folks: two Editors of the International Journal of Feminist Bioethics (Jamie Nelson and Hilde Lindemann) and the Editor of the IJFAB Blog (Alison Reiheld). IJFAB is currently hosted at Michigan … Continue reading

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On the common good and medical conscience claims
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Editor’s Note: This blog by Associate Professor of Religion Karey Harwood is the second in our miniseries reflecting on the Trump administrations’s support for expanded conscientious objection in medicine. For background readings, see the Editor’s introduction to the series. For another … Continue reading

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The conflict in conscientious objection isn’t what we think it is: how religiously-based objections to providing medical care might undermine Christian faith
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Editor’s Note: This is the first entry in our short series of blogs reflecting on the medical conscience policy of the current US President and his Administration. See the Editor’s introduction to this miniseries for more background on both this issue … Continue reading

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New Year’s Resolutions
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My New Year’s Resolutions about obligations to self and others in no particular order, and about balancing work and life and activism as a woman, a mother, and a feminist bioethicist. 1) Move in ways that feel good, as much … Continue reading

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Nurse bioethicists: doing bioethics as nurses, doing bioethics of nursing
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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

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