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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In international bioethics news, South Korea might alter its bioethics law if lawmakers of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea have their way. This law previously restricted human subject research on genetic alterations to those related to genetic diseases, cancer, … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of short blog posts about the bioethics summer school in Groningen, the Netherlands, which is focused on the role of family in the delivery and consumption of health care. Look for others … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of short blog posts about the bioethics summer school in Groningen, the Netherlands, which is focused on the role of family in the delivery and consumption of health care. Look for others … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of short blog posts about the bioethics summer school in Groningen, the Netherlands, which is focused on the role of family in the delivery and consumption of health care. Look for others … Continue reading
