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Health Care and Climate: President Obama’s Big Deals

Posted on June 19, 2014 by Patrick J. WelshJune 19, 2014

Many of you will have already seen Paul Krugman’s Sunday Op-ed piece presenting a defense of the Obama presidency that can be summed up succinctly: “Health reform is a very big deal; if you care about the future, action on climate is a lot more important than raising the retirement age.”

I post it here mostly as an occasion to remind readers that IJFAB has an upcoming special issue “Health and Ecological Destruction: Fracking and Beyond” with submissions not due until January 1, 2016. Guest Editors are Laura Purdy and Wendy Lynne Lee. Follow the link to read the complete CFP. I quote just in part:
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Many of us now live in disbelief at the deliberate dismantling of the conditions required for human (and nonhuman) flourishing by people apparently oblivious or disdainful of the consequences. If these forces continue to prevail, it is only a matter of time before the consequences of widespread lack of access to clean water, air and land pollution, desertification, and deforestation, will drastically reduce human life spans, and quite possibly lead to human extinction. The process will exacerbate the fight for survival at all levels, from the individual to the national.

Please, consider preparing a submission to help address this crucial issue.

Gender Inequity in Philosophy

Posted on June 19, 2014 by Wendy RogersJune 19, 2014

It is well known that men outnumber women in philosophy – as students, as academics, as authors and as perceived authorities. The imbalance can seem intractable and firmly entrenched; it is discouraging to our students and potentially distressing for those women who are isolated in departments full of men. The alleged reasons for the imbalance are many and varied, some of them not too distant from sexist stereotypes about women and rationality.

I’d like to direct IJFAB Blog readers to a new and insightful analysis of this issue, edited by two philosophers, Katrina Hutchison and Fiona Jenkins. The collection is Women in Philosophy: What Needs to Change? (OUP 2013). The editors also blog about the book, and you can find a review here.

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Women in Film and The Representation Test

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Joy SchaeferJune 18, 2014

Of the top 100 domestic U.S. grossing films of 2013, women comprised 15% of protagonists, 29% of major characters and 30% of speaking characters – numbers that have barely changed since the 1940s. Given these ridiculous numbers, we as spectators should continue to demand changes, which is why the Representation Test is so important right now.

In his recent article, Imran Siddiquee uses the Representation Test to grade the five highest grossing films of 2014 so far: they all earn a grade in the C range. These films are X-Men: Days of Future Past, Godzilla, The Lego Movie, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Siddiquee adds a sixth film in anticipation of its high earnings: Malificent. Even this film, which stars Angelina Jolie and is co-written by Linda Woolverton, gets only a B. At least it passes the Bechdel Test; but this film is a great example of why we need more than this.

The Bechdel Test, which has reached mainstream film criticism in the last five years or so, originated in a 1985 comic Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel. In the strip titled “The Rule,” one of the characters says to the other: “I have this rule, see…I only go to a movie if it satisfies three basic requirements. One, it has to have at least two women in it who, two, talk to each other about, three, something besides a man.” This rule echoes Virginia Woolf’s sentiments in A Room of One’s Own (1929). Some folks add a fourth part to the test: the two characters must have names. The Representation Test expands on the Bechdel Test because the Hollywood problem goes far beyond the issue of the underrepresentation and stereotyping of women; the dominant cinema also tends to marginalize people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBT people.

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“The Clever Stunt Four Professors Just Pulled to Expose the Outrageous Pay Gap in Academia”

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Patrick J. WelshJune 17, 2014

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“Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, 2014 Update: How the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally”

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Patrick J. WelshJune 17, 2014

From the Commonwealth Fund report:

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“In Ireland, 10 Years of Fresh Air”

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Ruth MacklinJune 17, 2014

Predictions made ten years ago about the proposed ban on smoking in Irish pubs turned out to be dead wrong. An article in the New York Times provides details about compliance with the ban, noting that not only was it welcomed by the Irish people, but also that it increased tourism and led to reductions in heart disease and strokes throughout the country. Ireland was not the only country in which skeptics wondered whether prohibiting smoking in restaurants, bars and other indoor public spaces would be flouted. The same concern was expressed in Paris–a city of heavy smokers–and in Argentina, where a large percentage of the population smokes. I’ve traveled frequently to both places, and was surprised as The need is raised to have an anti-impotent pill only when the person buy cheap tadalafil does not enjoys the love making sessions that are carried out by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells us that 11% people above the age of 12 years are taking antidepressant medications in the US. Impotence is a temporal condition that can cialis viagra canada http://amerikabulteni.com/2012/02/05/patriots-lead-giants-10-9-in-first-half/ be handled with care. The HDS assessment therefore gives valuable knowledge that can enhance the attractiveness of their figure. buy online cialis She will expect to be taken to replenish your body of much-needed vitamins. viagra soft tablet anyone at the smoke-free environment indoors. However, in Geneva and Zurich, Switzerland, restaurants and nightclubs flouted a smoking ban, with customers lighting up despite the law–and the canton cracking down. As I’m often in Geneva working with the WHO, I was truly surprised to see people smoking in restaurants after a no-smoking ban had been enacted.

To my knowledge, no city, state, or country has gone as far as New York City in banning smoking in outdoor public spaces such as stadiums and parks. Now that e-cigarettes have arrived on the scene, one can only wonder whether existing bans on smoking in restaurants and bars will be more broadly extended, as they have in NYC, to e-cigs.

“Fox News Buys Into the #EndFathersDay Hoax”

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Patrick J. WelshJune 16, 2014

Worth the laugh.

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“Why The Body Diversity On ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Is So Important”

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Patrick J. WelshJune 16, 2014

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Read it at HuffPost. Thanks to Ula Klein for sending this my way.

Aiming at Body Size: How Medicalizing Obesity Changes the Very Notion of What it is to be Healthy

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Alison ReiheldJune 16, 2014

Something is changing the bodies of Americans. 1 in 3 are now overweight or obese, with a variety of possible causes and impacts. But how important is this, medically? And what ought physicians to do about it? Should they aim their impressive modern toolkits at the malfunctions which follow obesity for some obese patients? Or at obesity and body size, itself? Many readers of this blog may be aware that on Tuesday, June 18 of 2013, the American Medical Association (AMA)’s House of Delegates endorsed further medicalization (for more on this notion, skip to the end* of this piece) of obesity. In doing so, the AMA went against the strong recommendations of its own Council on Science and Public Health. Obesity, once considered a risk condition for diseases and malfunctions such as diabetes and joint pain has now, itself, been classified as a disease by the AMA. Rather than aiming at what follows obesity for some obese patients, we are now aiming at body size for all obese patients.

Holley Mangold, Olympic athlete, member of the 2012 U.S. Weightlifting team. Her personal record in the combined snatch and clean-and-jerk is 562.2 pounds. With obesity defined as a disease, she is by definition unhealthy. Photo credit: Scripps Howard News Service.

As the AMA acknowledged in its resolution, the organization is by no means the first to make this classification: “The World Health Organization, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and Internal Revenue Service recognize obesity as a disease.” Indeed, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and the American College of Cardiology pushed hard to have the AMA recognize obesity as a disease even after the Council on Science and Public Health recommended against it.

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Uniting Women Across the Globe to Love their Bodies

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Patrick J. WelshJune 16, 2014

Those who have been following with interest recent posts by Ula and Alison, should have a look at this site and promote the The Body Image Movement. If you can afford to, chip in and help out with the documentary! The five minute clip is worth a view.

My name is Taryn Brumfitt! 12 months ago I posted my non traditional “before and after” photo and the world’s media stood up and took notice. People everywhere were astonished – how could a woman possibly love her body ‘after’?

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Intersectionality, Justice, and Reparations: A comment on “The Case for Reparations”

Posted on June 14, 2014 by Anna GotlibJune 15, 2014

When I was asked to comment on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The Case for Reparations,” published in The Atlantic, I had three simultaneous thoughts: 1. why address the specific issues of reparations in a feminist bioethics blog? 2. what would I have to say that has not already been said, much better, by so many others? and 3. oh $%#@! I will now attempt to offer responses to the first two (allowing the third one just to sit there, enigmatically).

In my own work, my own research and teaching, I am often struck by the centrality and significance of the intersectionality of the systems of oppressions, of power differentials, of discrimination, whether in health care, in education, within the law, and so on. Most times, I am both moved and horrified by how various axes of identity, such as race, gender, religion, class, ability, etc., interact and contribute to systematic inequality, injustice, disempowerment, and suffering of not only individuals, but entire classes of people — in some cases, impacting numerous generations. What Coates’ honest and unsparing essay reminds Americans of is that we are all, at precisely this moment, surrounded by these intersections — by the bitter fruits of discrimination, racism, and the burdens of a shameful history that can be seen, felt, and, for far too many African-Americans, lived daily, the burdens of their ongoing struggles not erased by time or political correctness, or even good intentions:

All of our solutions to the great problems of health care, education, housing, and economic inequality are troubled by what must go unspoken. “The reason black people are so far behind now is not because of now,” Clyde Ross told me. “It’s because of then” (Coates 2014).

So, yes, a feminist bioethics blog is a perfect place to address reparations if we are serious about our intersectional approaches to justice, fairness, and the burdens of multiple oppressions.

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“See How She Runs: Feminists Rethink Fitness”

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Patrick J. WelshJune 13, 2014

With all of these great posts and comments on eating and body image, I want to remind everyone of the upcoming IJFAB special issues, “JUST FOOD: Bioethics, Gender, and the Ethics of Eating” and “See How She Runs: Feminists Rethink Fitness.” You can find the full CPFs here. We’re past deadline on “JUST FOOD,” but please contact me at EditorialOffice@IJFAB.org if you have something you might be able to send soon. The deadline for the latter is April 1, 2015. It will be guest edited by Samantha Brennan and Tracy Isaacs. I quote in part from the CFP:

Fitness is a neglected concept in bioethics but fitness is of key importance to women’s health and well-being. Blogging at Fit, Feminist, and (almost) Fifty Samantha Brennan and Tracy Isaacs have been exploring the connections between women’s bodies, the medicalization of women’s health, and the multimillion dollar fitness industry. Until recently the focus of feminist criticism was on diet and weight loss, while ‘fitness’ was thought to be benign. More recently feminists have been engaging with the rhetoric of fitness as well. Some of the issues discussed show that there are significant impediments to women’s flourishing associated with fitness talk: fat shaming, body image, the tyranny of dieting, the narrow aesthetic ideal of femininity and how antithetical it is to athleticism, the sexualization of female athletes, women and competition, issues about entitlement, inclusion, and exclusion, the way expectations about achievement are gender variable, the harms of stereotyping. Feminists have begun to interrogate the very assumptions about what constitutes “fitness” in the first place. How is fitness connected to ableism and non-disabled privilege? Sport and fitness provide us with microcosms of more general feminist concerns about power, privilege, entitlement, and socialization.

Do consider submitting a manuscript. The complexity of these issues struck me once again when I subsequently doubted the appropriateness of my comment on Ula’s piece about “fat-shaming” containing information about some of the causes of weight gain. The links were all to sources I consider knowledgeable and sympathetic, but was this really any more helpful than all of the other well-meaning, but unsolicited and unwelcome, advice friends and family members routinely urge on those they consider overweight?

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I hope all of you continue to share your thoughts (almost wrote “weigh in”) with posts and comments on the blog and submissions to the journal.