EDITOR’S NOTE: Sometimes contributors to IJFAB Blog find themselves having an informal conversation in person or on social media about a news event. When these conversations might shed light on otherwise-overlooked issues, a blog entry featuring some of the ideas … Continue reading
Of Exoskeletons and Technological Solutions: A Conversation with Alison Reiheld, Joe Stramondo, and Jackie Leach Scully
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Not up for grabs: disabled folks respond to unwanted touching
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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On this International Day to End Violence Against Women, keep the WHO mantra of “RESPECT” in mind
Today is International Day to End Violence Against Women. The World Health Organization has a very helpful Twitter thread on the topic. One of their tweets links to this RESPECT framework for preventing Violence Against Women. It may be valuable … Continue reading
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Invisible Vulnerables
Being a parent of someone in an especially vulnerable group makes one feel like you are sitting on a ticking bomb–in addition to the anxiety we all feel during this time of pandemic. I am hiding out in our lovely … Continue reading
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COVID-19 Childbirth Restrictions Could Disproportionately Harm Black and Native Women
A recent article by Kimberly Seals Allers discusses how COVID-19 safety restrictions related to giving birth and breastfeeding could potentially disproportionately harm black and Native American women. Photo courtesy of Women’s E-News Some hospitals are now classifying not only family … Continue reading
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Disablism In a Time of Pandemic: Some Things Don’t Change
The Covid-19 pandemic is currently accompanied by a parallel outbreak of bioethical and clinical ethical discussion offering guidance for the difficult decisions that healthcare professionals and others face as the pandemic develops. Right at the moment there is a strong … Continue reading
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5 (Controversial?) Thoughts from a Bioethicist on the COVID-19 Pandemic
1. Universal health care matters, but it is not the panacea for failures within public health policies, social practices, and pre-existing historical and socioeconomic injustices (note Italy, the UK, and some other countries with universal health care that are not … Continue reading
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What counts as adequate access to abortion care in a pandemic? A perspective from Canada
Left to Right: Martha Paynter and Francoise Baylis This guest post comes to us from Martha Paynter and Françoise Baylis. Martha Paynter, RN is a registered nurse practicing in abortion and perinatal care and a PhD Candidate at Dalhousie University. … Continue reading
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Racial Justice is Good Medicine
“The way police is killing black men is the way doctors are killing black women… but y’all are NOT ready for that conversation tho.” –Dime, MPH Like many medical professionals, when I read this Tweet (above), I was hurt and … Continue reading
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Covid19 and the Spirit of Seriousness
Editor’s Note: There had been many COVID-19 patient narratives, some from health care providers and public health experts who have themselves contracted the illness. But there have been relatively few from philosophers working in bioethics. Here is one such narrative … Continue reading
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