In The News: Trans Health is a Local and Global Issue

2024 is kicking off with… a lot of proposed anti-trans legislation and policies. Aspects of anti-trans sentiment and action can feel very particular to local, regional, or national politics and attitudes. Yet the fact of anti-trans legislation and regulation is … Continue reading

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Obstructing access to gender affirming care in Missouri: the Missouri Attorney General’s “emergency order” goes into effect today, and it’s not about informed consent or protecting kids
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UPDATE: A number of advocacy groups have sued to prevent the rule from going into effect, including the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and Southampton Community Healthcare in St. Louis. The petition says “The Rule targets gender-affirming care with unprecedented … Continue reading

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Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Works-In-Progress Session

On Monday, April 3rd at 12pm Pacific/3pm Eastern (find your local time zone here) the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH) affinity group on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics is hosting a virtual works-in-progress session for scholars to get feedback … Continue reading

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Urgent Care and Systemic Damage: Health Issues in the Wake of the earthquake affecting Syria and Turkey
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Hi, folks. IJFAB Blog Editors, here, with a quick roundup of links about the health and ethical issues that arise in the wake of any natural disaster, and specifically last week’s earthquake affecting Syria and Turkey. The death toll is … Continue reading

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Global COVID Vaccine distribution is a central concern for global bioethics, and feminist bioethics’ attention to patterns of power and injustice
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In June of 2020, when US President Trump formally expressed his intention to withdraw from the WHO just as the scope of the COVID-19 pandemic had become clear, this also meant withdrawing from COVAX, the international program intended to change … Continue reading

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Covid19 and the Spirit of Seriousness
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Editor’s Note: There had been many COVID-19 patient narratives, some from health care providers and public health experts who have themselves contracted the illness. But there have been relatively few from philosophers working in bioethics. Here is one such narrative … Continue reading

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Racial Justice is Good Medicine
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“The way police is killing black men is the way doctors are killing black women… but y’all are NOT ready for that conversation tho.” –Dime, MPH Like many medical professionals, when I read this Tweet (above), I was hurt and … Continue reading

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What counts as adequate access to abortion care in a pandemic? A perspective from Canada
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Are Coronavirus Triage Protocols Sacrificing Fat People? Should They?
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The coronavirus pandemic has sparked new fears among fat activists that fat people will be sacrificed in virtue of medical triage protocols used to ration ventilators, ICU beds, and medicine, which are all in critical supply throughout America (hereafter I … Continue reading

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Health Disparities Highlighted by COVID-19 Also Show Up In Other Conditions: America’s Amputation Crisis
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In the United States, a new and troubling health disparity has arisen: Black folks are a disproportionate share of COVID-19 mortality. This highlights existing, background disparities that make some folks more vulnerable than others to the ravages of illness. This … Continue reading

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5 (Controversial?) Thoughts from a Bioethicist on the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Disablism In a Time of Pandemic: Some Things Don’t Change
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The Covid-19 pandemic is currently accompanied by a parallel outbreak of bioethical and clinical ethical discussion offering guidance for the difficult decisions that healthcare professionals and others face as the pandemic develops. Right at the moment there is a strong … Continue reading

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