The latest episode of FAB Gab, and the last for 2022, is now out! In this episode, Megan Dean discusses her recent paper on the temporality of eating, and how understanding time impacts how we understand food and our own subjectivity.
Check out the episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or here.
FAB Gab is hosted and produced by Kathryn MacKay
The latest episode of FAB Gab is out now! In this episode, Floor Cuijpers and Petra Verdonk present their work on the ways in which different kinds of marginalisation intersect to influence self-silencing behaviours among clinical trial participants. The trial that Cuijpers and Verdonk look at involves neuromuscular disorders, so they are particularly interested in the ways that disablement intersects with gender and class in different ways.
Here’s a sneak peak:
in this specific trial, these power dynamics manifested in actually participants at times silencing themselves. And this actually led them to or manifested in them overstepping their physical and emotional boundaries at times. And these aspects, we argue, are quite difficult, difficult to capture in more traditional ethical procedures and guidelines.
Floor Cuijpers, in conversation
Check out the episode, and all our other episodes, on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or here.
FAB Gab is hosted and produced by Kathryn MacKay
The latest episode of FAB Gab is out now! In this episode, Claire Moore discusses her recent paper, which puts Sen’s capabilities approach to use in addressing conscientious objection to providing emergency contraception in the U.S. Claire’s approach takes reproductive autonomy and religious expression as two important capabilities.
Here’s a sneak peek at the conversation:
…many bioethicists agree and argue that we have a right to things like bodily autonomy or to reproductive choice. And those are really important to a lot of different arguments in bioethics. But similarly, a lot of bioethicists also agree that we have a right to enjoy religious expression and freedom from religious persecution. So seemingly, these sort of two things, what Sen would call a capability, these two different capabilities are at odds, which is, of course, very familiar in many debates about reproductive health care. So essentially, I try and argue that conscientious refusal to emergency contraception can create a very burdensome inequality for people wishing to prevent pregnancy, given the sort of background of historical and justices that are so apparent in the US with respect to reproductive health care access.
Claire Moore, in conversation
You can listen to the episode here, and access a transcript and the paper. Check out some of our other episodes, while you’re at it!
FAB Gab is hosted and produced by Kathryn MacKay
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 of family life, even in the context of genetic testing and screening.
Here’s a sneak peak:
“Within the context of genetic information, who counts as family? So at first pass, the answer seems obvious, biologically related family members, right? However, from an ethical point of view, the answer becomes more nuanced. In this paper, I propose that we should take a pluralistic view of who counts as family.”
Serene Ong, in conversation
To hear more about a pluralistic account of the family, you can check out the episode here! You can find all our episodes on your favourite podcasting platform.
FAB Gab is hosted and produced by Kathryn MacKay
The latest episode of FAB Gab is out, and in this episode, Keisha Ray discusses her plenary address from FAB Congress in Basel, in July 2022.
Here’s an excerpt from the conversation:
“We’re seeing a lot of bioethicists saying bioethics has to do better about black Americans, we have to do better about them, we have to do better about including them in our work, whether that be empirical bioethics, whether that be just thinking about how I work can impact them as a marginalized group. And so for me, one thing that comes out of this is that we may have to do bioethics slightly different, it doesn’t mean that we have to abandon what we like about it, or what we love. What drew us to bioethics? What made us pick that over some other kind of discipline, you know, in grad school, or whatever, it doesn’t mean that we have to sort of start all over. But it does mean that maybe we can move a little bit differently…”
Keisha Ray on what Black Bioethics means
You can listen to the episode here, and also keep your eyes peeled for Keisha’s forthcoming book, Black Health, from Oxford University Press.
FAB Gab is hosted and produced by Kathryn MacKay.
IJFAB welcomes submissions of papers based on presentations given at the 2022 FAB conference in Basel. We look forward to receiving any of the following: (i) full articles of around 8000 words; (ii) shorter articles (3000-4000 words) that may not be fully worked-up but disseminate a written version of your presentation to a wider audience; (iii) commentaries on papers, panels or themes from the conference. All of these will undergo our standard review process.
IJFAB has traditionally dedicated a single issue to conference papers, appearing shortly after the conference itself. However, we are very conscious of the pressures that so many of us have been experiencing since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and aware that a hard deadline here will only exacerbate that pressure. We’ve therefore decided that we will simply consider ‘conference paper’ submissions as they come in, and if accepted they will be published in the next available issue with an indication that they are based on work first presented at FAB 2022 in Basel.
We look forward to receiving your work!
The Editorial Board
The latest episode of FAB Gab is out now, and in this episode, Jeanne Proust discusses her recent co-authored paper focussed on the uterus, as a concept and as a complex organ.
The paper arises from the context of the extraordinarily high rates of hysterectomy and c-section delivery in the United States, which is well beyond the rates in other developed nations. Proust and her co-authors discuss how the ‘parthood’ model and the ‘container’ model, two often-used conceptual metaphors in pregnancy, influence how women (and society broadly) think(s) about uteruses, their purpose, and their value.
To listen to this fascinating conversation, check out the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or listen here:
The latest episode of FAB Gab is now live! This time, Katharine Wolfe speaks about her recent paper, which seeks to rescue ‘speciesism’ from the ablism of certain interpretations of the term.
Wolfe’s paper looks back on an exchange between Peter Singer and Eva Feder Kittay about the moral status of human beings vis-a-vis animals. Wolfe suggests that establishing moral status relationally, rather than by properties or capacities, allows us to include all human beings without having to make claims about superiority of humans over any (or all) other animals.
You can check out this episode, along with our catalogue of back episodes, on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or by clicking the link below:
The latest episode of FAB Gab is now out, and in this episode, Anna Nelson discusses partial ectogenesis as a mode of delivery for pregnant people. In her paper, recently published in IJFAB, Anna argues that partial ectogenesis should be available by request.
Here’s a snapshot of the discussion:
The key central argument I’m trying to make is that partial ectogenesis could be seen as a mode of delivery. So I shifted the focus of the discussion centered on the birthing individual, rather than the technology in the idea that actually this extraction process from the human body [which] mimics quite closely… cesarean birth.”
Anna Nelson, in conversation on FAB Gab
Check out the episode here, and you’ll also find a link to Anna’s paper for further reading!
FAB Gab is hosted and produced by Kathryn MacKay.
Dear Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Affinity Group Members,
Please save the date for an upcoming workshop on publishing feminist work in bioethics journals which FAB is hosting via Zoom on Friday June 3rd at noon pacific (Los Angeles)/3pm eastern (New York). The workshop will feature:
Anna Gotlib, PhD
Editor, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
Robyn Bluhm, PhD
Editor, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
Greg Kaebnick, PhD
Director, Editorial Department and Editor, Hastings Center Report
There will be a 60min panel conversation with our guest speakers, followed by optional 60min for FAB group discussion of the panel and for planning future FAB events. Registration for this event is optional but encouraged. We will send a calendar invitation to registered participants and hope to collect questions in advance for our panelists, but we will also circulate a Zoom link to the entire group via email as the date approaches (and likely a few reminder remails too).
To register or submit questions for the panelists please follow this link: https://forms.gle/ZTqJTpLS84PKPo8e6
You are welcome to share this information with other interested colleagues or students and please reach out to us with any questions.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth and Gina
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Elizabeth Lanphier, PhD, MS (she/her)
Ethics Center & Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics
Research Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati Department of Philosophy
Affiliated Faculty, University of Cincinnati Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Non-Resident Research Fellow, George Mason University Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy
Follow me on Twitter @EthicsElizabeth and learn more about my work here or here
Georgina D. Campelia, PhD HEC-C (she/they)
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioethics and Humanities | UW Medicine
1959 NE Pacific St. | Box 357120 | Seattle, WA 98195-7120
OFFICE: 206-543-3267 EMAIL: gdcamp@uw.edu
WEB: http://depts.washington.edu/bhdept/ and georginacampelia.com
The new episode of FAB Gab is out now, featuring the first paper from the latest volume of IJFAB. In this episode, Jemma Rollo discusses her proposal for a relational ethics of pregnancy that might take account of feminist commitments toward abortion access as well as taking miscarriage seriously.
While feminists might balk at valuing a foetus because this seems to threaten women’s access to abortion, Rollo argues that we can value a foetus – and a pregnancy – without losing sight of the importance of the woman and her relationship to this being.
Hear more about this ethics of pregnancy here:
https://anchor.fm/fabgab-ijfab-podcast/embed/episodes/Episode-19-Jemma-Rollo-on-a-Relational-Ethics-of-Pregnancy-e1hev97You can find our other episodes on Anchor, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts of quality.
FAB Gab is hosted and produced by Kathryn MacKay
The latest episode of FAB Gab is out now! In this episode, Ylva Gustafsson discusses her critiques of the neurological approach to empathy. Gustafsson emphasises the dialogical and embodied nature of empathy, and presents examples from dementia care as cases of empathetic interaction that seem more complex and nuanced than neurological accounts of empathy allow.
You can check out Ylva’s episode here!
FAB Gab is hosted and produced by Kathryn MacKay. You can get in touch on Twitter: @KLMacKay