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 (February 2024): Identifies particular needs and challenges for autism research in LMIC, including operation of informed consent processes and community involvement.
- Joan Llorca Albareda & Pablo García-Barranquero, “Old by obsolescence: The paradox of aging in the digital era,” Bioethics (online April 2024): Connects contemporary aging process to phenomenon of technology obsolescence influencing social perceptions and valuations of age.
- Alexandra Kapeller, “Phenomenology and empowerment in self-testing apps,” Bioethics (online April 2024): Considers the senses in which mHealth apps might be considered empowering for patients and, after rejecting several interpretations, draws on critical phenomenology to capture the potential of mHealth apps to shift users’ ways being-in-the-world.
- Jessica Olivares, Emma Tumilty, Lisa Campo-Engelstein & Kathryn A. Cunningham, “Confidence in Care Instead of Capacity: A Feminist Approach to Opioid Overdose,” The American Journal of Bioethics (online April 2024): Mobilizes the ethics of care and relational autonomy to confront opioid overdose, prioritizing evidence-based medicine and harm reduction that fosters long-term trusting relationships between patients and providers.
- Melissa Rees, “The Social Epistemology of Clinical Placebos,” The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (June 2024 issue): Proposes that a social epistemological approach to understanding placebos better differentiates placebos from both everyday occurrences increasing positive outcomes and standard medical treatments.
- T. Baron, E. Svingen, R. Leyva, “Surrogacy and Adoption: An Empirical Investigation of Public Moral Attitudes,” Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (March 2024): Examines general popular attitudes towards surrogacy and adoption in the UK in the interest of gauging response to proposed reform allowing “double donor” surrogacy.
- Zhaochen Wang, Yuzhi Fan, Wenchen Shao, “Social egg freezing and reproductive rights justification: A perspective from China,” Bioethics (May 2024 issue): Considers and rejects rights justifications for egg freezing for social reasons, arguing that more pressing reproductive rights may need to be prioritized before expanding the use of social egg freezing.
