Recent reports indicate that the water crisis in Flint, MI, had unpredicted health consequences including increasing the rate of fetal deaths and miscarriages. The effect size is described by the authors of a new working paper as “horrifyingly large.” You … Continue reading
Health consequences of Flint water crisis grow
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What you don’t know CAN hurt you: Epistemic Injustice and Conceptually Impoverished Health Promotion
I want to consider a particular kind of wrong within medicine and health promotion: epistemic injustice and its harms. My case study is obesity conceived of as a public health concern. However, the analytic framework I deploy may prove useful … Continue reading
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New film coming out based on the disability rights book Far From The Tree
You may or may not be familiar with the Andrew Solomon’s Far From the Tree, a book format study of difference within families including families raising children with “extraordinary needs.” It’s a useful and important tool for teaching and learning about families and persons … Continue reading
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Disparities in Maternal Mortality: Some American women have a higher risk of the highest cost of being pregnant
Maternal mortality is a basic public health measure. It is also one of the many health outcomes on which the United States ranks much lower than other comparably developed nations. As per Ann Simmons’ superb article on the subject of … Continue reading
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Keisha Ray makes an important analysis of black women’s maternal health disparities in the US
Over at bioethics.net, bioethicist Keisha Ray addresses the maternal health disparities experienced by black women, in particular. In her blog, “BLACK WOMEN ARE DYING IN DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBERS DURING AND AFTER GIVING BIRTH AND NOT EVEN CELEBRITY SERENA WILLIAMS IS SAFE” … Continue reading
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Everything Old Is New Again: Patient Dumping in the United States
A recent, though smaller than deserved, furor erupted in the US over a video of a non-white female patient being dropped off via wheelchair at a bus stop by hospital personnel during freezing temperatures wearing only a hospital gown … Continue reading
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IJFAB Blog series: Responses to the Trump Administration’s policies on medical conscience claims
As you may have heard, the Trump Administration has announced an expanded policy on conscientious objection in medicine, with institutional support in the form of a Department of Health and Human Services office that will be responsible for protecting objectors. … Continue reading
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Conscientious Objections, Professional Limitations, and Hard Realities for Hospitals
Editor’s Note: This blog entry is part of our miniseries on conscientious objection including the Editor’s introduction and blog entries by Ruth Groenhout and Karey Harwood on this subject. The newly formed Conscience and Religious Freedom Division of the Office for Civil … Continue reading
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Objection! Sustained
Editor’s Note: This blog entry by special guest author Dr. M. Sara Rosenthal is part of our miniseries on conscientious objection including the Editor’s introduction and blog entries by Ruth Groenhout, Karey Harwood, and Laura Guidry-Grimes on this subject. This month, the Trump Administration introduced … Continue reading
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Intimacy Without Reciprocity: How Researchers Working With Transgender Humans Can Do Better
Editor’s Note: This blog comes to us from Sayer Johnson, who blogged for IJFAB Blog in the past on the issue of how clinicians respond to trans patients. Here, Mr. Johnson reaches a frustrated breaking point with the way that … Continue reading
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Seek each other out: Nothing About Us Without Us, Autism Awareness Month, and the centering of autistic persons
April is Autism Awareness Month in the U.S. All too often, the rhetoric around autism is shaped by the needs and voices of the caregivers and families of people who are autistic. Goodness knows the perspectives of caregivers and families … Continue reading
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Individualization, Access, and Bias: ACOG issues new consensus call for improvements to maternal health care, but there are serious pitfalls to watch out for
I am struck by what health care disparities and the lived experiences of postpartum patients mean for implementation of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology’s new guidelines on postpartum care. These guidelines valuably refocus the medical establishment’s focus on … Continue reading
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“More an Inmate Than a Patient…”: check out this consideration of autonomy and long-term care settings
Bioethicists have long been alert to the delicate dance of preserving patient autonomy in long-term residential care settings such as nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, and other institutional settings where patients may reside for extended periods of time in the U.S. … Continue reading
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Background and Link Roundup on US policies of family separation and internment
Editor’s Note: This blog entry from the IJFAB Blog Editor provides background on the current US handling of undocumented immigrants crossing at the southern border, on increased detention of immigrants generally including the role of for-profit prison corporations, and on shifts … Continue reading
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Pedagogy PART 2: When Privileged Teachers Set Out to Teach About Privilege To (mostly) Privileged Students
Editor’s Note: As part of our mini-series on pedagogy–which kicked off with Kate MacKay’s reflection last week on unyielding dogmatism in the classroom–IJFAB Blog features a two-part consideration by a professor and a student on issues arising from classes in which … Continue reading
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Pedagogy PART 3: A student wonders who should be teaching a course called “Rap, Race, Gender, and Philosophy.” Can a white male professor do the job? If so, how?
Editor’s Note: Part 3 in our pedagogy mini-series comes to us from Elon University student Arianne Payne, an African-American woman who reflects on taking a course on rap, one which touches on racism and black culture, from a white male professor … Continue reading
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Founding member of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network, Brazilian bioethicist Prof Debora Diniz, in hiding due to death threats
Yesterday, The Guardian reported on the dire straits afflicting Debora Diniz in Brazil. Diniz, a founding member of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network (FABnet) which birthed IJFAB and consequently this blog, has gone into hiding. Diniz has long experienced harassment in … Continue reading
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At the intersection of “fat” and “female”, it can be hard to get health care providers to provide health care
Over at Inc., Suzanne Lucas has a good piece published August 27, 2018 on how unconscious bias can affect fat women’s access to health care. Too often, says Lucas, their testimony may be dismissed with dire consequences, because of their fatness … Continue reading
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Today is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
The UN World Health Organization’s Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation is today, February 6, 2019. As the WHO says “#FGM violates women’s and girls’ rights. It must stop now.” There is space for a more complicated debate … Continue reading
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ACOG response to recent public rhetoric on the New York state abortion law and other discussions of “late abortion”
As you may know, the US has recently been in the throes of an impassioned debate over abortion. There has recently been a great deal of discussion of New York’s new abortion law, and on Virginia politicians’ claims about late … Continue reading
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