Society is too slow to learn what learned people look like: Black women ARE what a doctor looks like
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Two years ago, in the wake of an incident in which a black woman doctor attempted to render medical aid and was dismissed due to doubt that she was a physician, IJFAB Blog featured a post on the issue of … Continue reading

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Patience with the blog, please
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Hello, folks. Sometime in the past day or two, one of the blog’s authors was hacked.  Someone then posted a series of semi-random posts backdated for several months. In most case we have seen that people who use it – … Continue reading

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New IJFAB issue is out!
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Hi, folks. The new Fall 2018 issue of IJFAB is out. The theme is “Feminist Phenomenology, Medicine, Bioethics, and Health.” While most of the articles are subscription-only or accessible through various databases/indices, the Introduction to the special issue by Guest … Continue reading

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How to Fail Chronic Pain Patients
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An article recently posted by NPR describes the latest solution to a crisis of which usually only one side is well-represented:  the well-publicized fear of opioid abuse versus the quieter, yet ongoing, experiences of chronic pain patients who are losing … Continue reading

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Pedagogy PART 3: A student wonders who should be teaching a course called “Rap, Race, Gender, and Philosophy.” Can a white male professor do the job? If so, how?
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Editor’s Note: Part 3 in our pedagogy mini-series comes to us from Elon University student Arianne Payne, an African-American woman who reflects on taking a course on rap, one which touches on racism and black culture, from a white male professor … Continue reading

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IJFAB Blog Contributors Interviewed on Today Show On Love and Family When Disability or Difference are Part of the Picture
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  This morning, NBC’s Today Show featured a short piece on the lives of Leah Smith and Joe Stramondo. What the piece did not mention is their scholarship and advocacy work, focusing instead on their family life.  Both have contributed … Continue reading

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Pedagogy PART 2: When Privileged Teachers Set Out to Teach About Privilege To (mostly) Privileged Students
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Editor’s Note: As part of our mini-series on pedagogy–which kicked off with Kate MacKay’s reflection last week on unyielding dogmatism in the classroom–IJFAB Blog features a two-part consideration by a professor and a student on issues arising from classes in which … Continue reading

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Coming soon: mini-series on ethics/pedagogy of teaching about oppressive social and political features
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Hi, folks. This is just a quick announcement of our upcoming 4-part mini-series. We will be focusing on issues that arise in planning and handling discussions of oppression in the classroom. The reason why this place is hit is because … Continue reading

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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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