The latest episode of FAB Gab is out now! This time, Serene Ong of the National University of Singapore discusses definitions of the family, and how we need a broader account than just a biological model to capture the complexity … Continue reading
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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
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
Editor’s Note: This guest post comes to us from bioethicist Françoise Baylis. Professor Baylis is the Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy at Dalhousie University, Editor of the Canadian bioethics blog Impact Ethics, the author of numerous superb articles using feminist … Continue reading