Pregnant Women

Readers may be interested to learn that the initiative to include pregnant women in biomedical research is gaining steam.  To follow this progress, please check the following website:  http://secondwaveinitiative.org/ And–just as the movement to lift severe restrictions on abortion is … Continue reading

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Adrienne Asch

This post originally appeared on the Medical College of Wisconsin Bioethics Listserv. It is posted here with permission from the author. I have known Adrienne since the mid-1980s, when she approached me after I had given a talk for the … Continue reading

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Remebering Adrienne Asch

This is a guest post by Alice Dreger of Northwestern University Adrienne Asch, PhD, director of the Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University, died on November 19, of cancer. Adrienne was a pillar of American bioethics, the scholar to whom … Continue reading

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Campus Suicide

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Read this and weep…

Read This and Weep. . . Assuming that this is an accurate story–and determining that would be part of the job–what should bioethics’ response be? I’m not sure there’s anything distinctively feminist at issue here, except insofar as we are … Continue reading

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New German “Third Sex” Law: Appearance and Reality

Over the last week news outlets—from Der Spiegel to the Wall Street Journal—have reported that Germany has become the second country to permit a “third” gender option for the birth of children (Australia was the first).  These reports suggest that … Continue reading

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CFP: Vol. 9, No. 3: “Health and Ecological Destruction: Fracking and Beyond”

The deadline for submission for this issue is September 1, 2015. Laura Purdy and Wendy Lynne Lee “Which questions moral philosophers choose to study—and choose not to study—is itself a moral issue,” wrote Virginia Warren in her groundbreaking 1979 article. … Continue reading

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