Check out these recently published articles likely to be of interest to feminist bioethicists! Siobhan de Lange, Dee Muller, & Chloe Dafkin, “Biomedical research on autism in low- and middle-income countries: Considerations from the South African context,” Developing World Bioethics … Continue reading
This installment of the Feminist Bioethics Scholar Spotlight series features Regina Müller. Dr. Müller is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Bremen. Her professional background is in philosophy, history of arts (University Regensburg), and … Continue reading
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
A handful of upcoming conferences that would be great places to submit or experience new works in feminist approaches to bioethics. Calls for Proposals due May 15th, 2023 The History & Philosophy of Pregnancy – a hybrid conference at the … Continue reading
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
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
As 2020 comes to a close, we have news out of Argentina that decades of feminist pro-choice activism have come to fruition: the Senate has passed a bill that came through the House recently, decriminalizing abortion up through 14 weeks … Continue reading
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
In case you missed it, in June of 2019, Nature covered efforts by the multinational African Academy of Sciences (AAS), founded in 1985, to develop ethical guidelines on handling data. Their goal: to make sure that Africans benefit from research … Continue reading
Whenever we see stories about the “plight” of women in developing nations, it’s critically important to step back and ask whether the journalistic framing is rooted in condescending colonialism, painting a picture of a problem as affecting women in the … Continue reading
Over at Canada’s Impact Ethics blog, feminist bioethicists and disability theorists Teresa Blankmeyer Burke and Jackie Leach Scully reflect on the Russian project to use CRISPR technologies to “correct a mutation that leads to hereditary deafness.” Blankmeyer Burke and Scully … Continue reading
There is an article that I suggest ought to be read as widely as possible. Underneath the anti-vaxxer exterior lies much scientific misinformation, compounded by phobias, conspiracy theories, and general hubris that views those who take science and medicine to … Continue reading
