I am very grateful to have recently taken on the role of Book Review Editor for the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. In this role, I will be frequently soliciting both books and reviewers for the journal and … Continue reading
A couple of days ago the BBC’s online magazine on disability, Ouch!, published an article about the phenomenon of unwanted touching by nondisabled people that is endured by many people with disabilities. The prompt for the article was the report … Continue reading
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The Trump administration has been open about their family planning priorities, as evidenced in this 2018 blog post. The administration is pushing abstinence and “natural family planning” methods over safe, more effective contraceptives, emphasizing privately held religious values in public … Continue reading
In positive bioethics news, a UN report has found that more women and children survive today than at any other point in history. Since 2000, child deaths have been reduced by nearly half and maternal deaths by over one-third. This … Continue reading
The International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) is pleased to invite proposals for panels and papers for presentation at the 2020 World Congress (FAB 2020). A street in Philadelphia is lined with flags from nations around the world. … Continue reading
Following the two high-profile cases of Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans, parents’ right to pursue medical care for their child deemed futile by doctors is once again at stake in the UK. Photo courtesy of BBC news. Tafida Raqeeb suffered … Continue reading
Amidst a devastating outbreak, scientists and doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been running clinical trials on experimental Ebola treatments. Now, they have been successful. While an experimental vaccine had been providing protection from catching the virus, the … Continue reading
An August 2019 report from the UN on land use and climate change names the production and consumption of meat as a major contributor to climate change. While the report stopped short of calling for vegetarianism or veganism, it emphasized … Continue reading
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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
