As you may know, Medicaid is the US government health care safety net program for low-income Americans. While both the federal government and each state government contribute funds, the states make the decisions on allocation of those funds. Some states … Continue reading
In the US, researchers at academic institutions who do work with human research participants must obtain the approval of an Institutional Review Board (IRB) that looks to assure that research protocols do not violate ethical requirements for such research. Washington … Continue reading
Whenever there is a disparate social response to a problem that afflicts one group of people relative to a problem that afflicts another, it is worth asking why. Such questions are not asked to imply that no one should get … Continue reading
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
Feminist bioethics is, of course, about more than reproductive ethics. But it is also about reproductive bioethics. One of the big issues with reproductive bioethics from a feminist perspective is the tension between who is dissuaded from or prevented from … 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
As you may have heard, the Trump Administration has announced an expanded policy on conscientious objection in medicine, with institutional support in the form of a Department of Health and Human Services office that will be responsible for protecting objectors. … Continue reading
A recent, though smaller than deserved, furor erupted in the US over a video of a non-white female patient being dropped off via wheelchair at a bus stop by hospital personnel during freezing temperatures wearing only a hospital gown … Continue reading
Over at bioethics.net, bioethicist Keisha Ray addresses the maternal health disparities experienced by black women, in particular. In her blog, “BLACK WOMEN ARE DYING IN DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBERS DURING AND AFTER GIVING BIRTH AND NOT EVEN CELEBRITY SERENA WILLIAMS IS SAFE” … Continue reading
As we know, the state of our environment has significant health effects and disruptions to climate are especially likely to harm the most vulnerable among us. This would seem to make it important for people to get behind conservation efforts. … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: Today we have a special co-authored blog entry by four feminist reproductive justice advocates working on what is known in bioethics as ARTs (Assisted Reproductive Technologies) and other related tech. Francine Coeytaux, MPH Co-Director, Pro-Choice Alliance for Responsible Research … Continue reading
Maternal mortality is a basic public health measure. It is also one of the many health outcomes on which the United States ranks much lower than other comparably developed nations. As per Ann Simmons’ superb article on the subject of … Continue reading