Feminist Bioethics Book Spotlight: Microaggressions in Medicine

In this installment of our IJFAB Blog Feminist Bioethics Spotlight Series we’re spotlighting a new book by Lauren Freeman and Heather Stewart just out this spring as part of the Bioethics for Social Justice Series with Oxford University Press. It … Continue reading

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Calls for Abstracts & Papers Ripe for International/Feminist/Bioethics Approaches

March 1st Deadline: Call for Papers in the Centennial Celebration of the work of Mary Warnock (1924-2019) The Journal of Applied Philosophy (JOAP) plans a special issue to commemorate Mary Warnock’s centennial with the final issue of the 2024 volume. … Continue reading

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Upcoming Feminist/Bioethics Conference Roundup

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

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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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MAiD and IJFAB: Why Bioethical Discourse is Not Endorsement
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In the past few months, a number of posts and Tweets from the Biopolitical Philosophy blog have stated that the International Journal of Feminist Bioethics (IJFAB) has ‘promoted’ medical assistance in dying (MAiD) along with the legislation currently being considered … Continue reading

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Māori Theorists Working in Bioethics and Justice Spotlighted at Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law and New Zealand Bioethics Conference
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Ongoing 21-23 November of 2019, the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law / New Zealand Bioethics Conference is spotlighting work by Māori thinkers. IJFAB Blog readers might want to look more closely at their work, which makes important contributions … Continue reading

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Is Sarah Franklin a Bioethicist? Bioethics Beyond Philosophy

EDITOR’S NOTE: This Guest Blog comes to us from bioethicists Dr. Nathan Emmerich and Dr. Alexis Paton in response to a flurry of discussion over Sarah Franklin’s inquiry into bioethics in a recent issue of Nature. Alexis Paton is a … Continue reading

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Want to review books? Here are some tips on doing a good job, and perhaps doing it for IJFAB
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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

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NYPL Black Feminism Introductory Research Guide
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Folks whose toolkit does not yet include American Black Feminism and Womanism may want to take a look at the New York Public Library’s, Black Feminism Introductory Research Guide, the scope of which is described here by Amara Green of … Continue reading

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Over at the Hastings Center, Nancy Berlinger urges bioethicists to move from outcry to action on migrant crises

In the US, a crisis has arisen due to government handling of much larger than usual numbers of asylum-seeking migrants at the southern border. Most are coming not from Mexico but through Mexico from other Central American and South American … Continue reading

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Decolonizing IJFAB Blog: Attention to Nations and Contexts on the African Continent
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IJFAB Blog is beginning a new occasional series, “Decolonizing IJFAB Blog.” Medical Ethics has long been dominated by North American / European toolkits and contexts. This is certainly true of this Blog even though we are associated with the International … Continue reading

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Society is too slow to learn what learned people look like: Black women ARE what a doctor looks like
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Two years ago, in the wake of an incident in which a black woman doctor attempted to render medical aid and was dismissed due to doubt that she was a physician, IJFAB Blog featured a post on the issue of … Continue reading

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