The Brave Response to Anti-Abortion Legislation
In the wake of the anti-abortion legislation we’ve seen from Utah, Indiana, Florida, Texas, and multiple other states, people across the country are forced once again to examine their beliefs around...
View ArticleWhat does a Trump Presidency mean for the Affordable Care Act and American...
Since Trump’s electoral college victory became apparent early Wednesday morning and especially since Secretary Clinton’s concession speech, many bioethicists–and many more American residents–have been...
View ArticleTheresa May’s Tory Agenda: All Children Left Behind
What is happening to our world? Where has our sense of justice and justness gone? It seems like Brexit and The Donald are sounding the death knell of solidarity. They did not cause it; they are,...
View ArticleRepeal and Replace with….?
EDIT: 19 minutes after this blog posted, the NY Times released this (screenshot taken 1 hr 14 minutes after blog posted). Keep it in mind as you read. For the first time in quite some while, the same...
View ArticleThe ABCs of the AHCA: A is for abortion, B is for backward, C is for costly
EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece’s posting was delayed by technical errors. However, the analysis of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) is still pressing and relevant. While the bill was pulled from a...
View ArticleLabor Without Respite: Tennis, pregnancy, and other ‘unexpected feats’
GUEST CONTRIBUTORS Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra (Dr. sc. med., Research Associate, Liminal Spaces Project; Teaching Fellow, School of Law; Executive committee member, Mason Institute; University of Edinburgh...
View ArticleWhat Now?
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bioethicist Rory Kraft brings us this handy explanation of the complicated legislative processes in the U.S. Congress, and offers some recommendations for ethicists’ involvement in...
View ArticleThe Revenge Effects of Electronic Medical Records
In 1996, historian of science Edward Tenner published his influential book Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences. It is an extended consideration of how technology...
View Article“Intersex Patients ‘Routinely Lied To By Doctors'”, per recent BBC Radio 4...
Surprising absolutely no one who follows the history of intersex treatment in the United States, BBC Radio 4 has a recent story about the history of intersex treatment in the UK with the provocative...
View ArticleNigerian medical ethicists and insurers call for regulation of medical...
A June 15, 2017 article found at AllAfrica, and drawing on work by The Guardian, summarizes some of the arguments made at a recent conference in Nigeria. The one-day conference was titled “Ethics in...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: disabled persons protest US Senate healthcare bill and cuts to...
As you may know, the US is in the midst of the Republican party’s long-promised efforts to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, AKA Obamacare. Earlier this year, the US House of...
View ArticleWhere’s Lysistrata when you need her?
Editor’s Note: We have had a few blogs that reference The Handmaid’s Tale since Season 1 of the Hulu series began in 2017, and one that did so several years ago which had a lively discussion in the...
View ArticleNY Times article says US Senate Health Bill depends on shifting dollars from...
Over in The New York Times, Margaret Sanger-Katz has an analysis of U.S. Senate health care bill which we have been covering recently. In it, she pulls no bunches and yet, this Editor thinks, fairly...
View Article“Why TrumpCare’s Medicaid Cuts are a Feminist Disability Rights Issue” by...
Editor’s Note: Smith and Stramondo have co-authored for IJFAB Blog in the past, with the widely read “Musings on the Value of ‘Awareness’.” You can see a shared bio at the end of today’s blog article....
View ArticleEffects of Trump administration policies, including census questionnaire...
Editor’s Note: SAGE is a group that provides advocacy and services for LGBT Elders, a group often multiply invisible in public policy due to ageism combined with homophobia, biphobia, and/or...
View ArticleBehind Closed Doors: A flawed AHCA does nothing to fix the flaws of the ACA,...
Many of us in the bioethics community are following along with the political maneuvers in the U.S. Senate on the Republican attempt to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (ACA/“Obamacare”)....
View ArticleACA repeal-and-replace, at least in any of its current forms, will devastate...
Since 2010, I have incorporated Remote Area Medical (RAM) into my medical ethics teaching. RAM is an organization that relies on corporate donations, individual charitable donations, and time-and-skill...
View ArticleNone of us are getting out of here alive. But who goes first, and why? New...
Did you catch the Journal of the American Medical Association article on the Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the US, 2001-2014? Spoilers: there is one. This piece tries to break it...
View ArticlePolice, providers, and patients: between a rock and a hard place? Not really
The Salt Lake Tribune (from the US State of Utah) posted an article yesterday about a nurse who refused to let a police officer trained in phlebotomy take a blood sample from an unconscious patient....
View ArticleThe mental health costs of losing DACA
The New York Times has an article in yesterday’s paper called “The Psychic Toll of Trump’s DACA Decision.” As you may know, DACA refers to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program in the...
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