Project MUSE®: IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.daily12026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (2008) through current issueLatest Articles: IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to BioethicsTWOProject MUSE®IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics1937-45771937-4585Latest articles in IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Feed provided by Project MUSE®NHS Policy on HPV Vaccines Is Failing Females Aged 26–45
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976744
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Certain strands of the human papillomavirus (HPV) cause genital warts and many forms of highly lethal cancer. HPV has been identified as a sexually transmitted disease (STD)/sexually transmitted infection (STI) for many decades. The connection between HPV and cancer is similarly well known: HPV can cause fifteen different cancers (Pathak, Pajai, and Kesharwani 2022), including anal cancer, penile cancer, vulval and vaginal cancer, some types of head and neck cancer, and cervical cancer.Cervical cancer is the third-most common cancer among females globally and the most common cancer in females in forty-two low-resource countries. In 2020, “there were an estimated 604,127 cervical cancer cases and 341,831 deaths”
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/431/image/coversmallNHS Policy on HPV Vaccines Is Failing Females Aged 26–452025-12-10text/htmlen-USNHS Policy on HPV Vaccines Is Failing Females Aged 26–452025-12-102025TWOProject MUSE®1522002026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002025-12-10Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare: Reevaluating Routine Pregnancy Testing
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976745
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Since the advent of inexpensive and accurate pregnancy testing techniques, recommendations for routine pregnancy testing in acute clinical care settings have expanded, such that the practice has become standard, shaped by both institutional policies and common clinical practice (Kempen 1997, 547; Strote and Chen 2006, 555). Anecdotal evidence and patient narratives reveal a troubling trend, whereby the decision to order a pregnancy test often bypasses patient-reported risk factors in epistemically problematic ways. Crucially, patients aver that self-reports are dismissed and that routine pregnancy testing interferes with their privacy, urgent care needs, and overall healthcare experience. Healthcare practitioners
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/431/image/coversmallEpistemic Injustice in Healthcare: Reevaluating Routine Pregnancy Testing2025-12-10text/htmlen-USEpistemic Injustice in Healthcare: Reevaluating Routine Pregnancy Testing2025-12-102025TWOProject MUSE®1815252026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002025-12-10“Humiliated and Ashamed, Again and Again”: Regulating Genital Examinations of Children with Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976746
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This article considers current practices within high- and middle-income countries (such as Australia, the United States, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom) associated with medical management of people with innate variations of sex characteristics (IVSC or intersex variations), with a particular focus on genital examinations. The article investigates accounts of trauma, distress, and shame associated with genital examinations in medical settings and recommends legal and policy changes to reduce their harmful impact. The aim is to develop recommendations for regulating and guiding practices of genital examinations in the context of pediatric interventions on children with IVSC. The analysis contributes to a body of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/431/image/coversmall“Humiliated and Ashamed, Again and Again”: Regulating Genital Examinations of Children with Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics2025-12-10text/htmlen-US“Humiliated and Ashamed, Again and Again”: Regulating Genital Examinations of Children with Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics2025-12-102025TWOProject MUSE®2208122026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002025-12-10Mobile Health Technology, Empowerment, and Self-Respect: A Feminist Analysis
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976747
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Empowerment is an unsettled concept with multiple interpretations. In the realm of digital health, it has been growing in prominence—apparently unaffected by conceptual ambiguity—as part of a narrative promoting greater patient choice and autonomy while moving away from paternalistic models of medical decision-making (Topol 2015). There are many ways in which mobile technology could empower us: it could provide more information, more control, or self-care. The logic often stops here for many individuals: if a technology instills a sense of empowerment, it is automatically considered good, equating empowerment with goodness. However, this equation of information = empowerment and related ideals are dangerously
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/431/image/coversmallMobile Health Technology, Empowerment, and Self-Respect: A Feminist Analysis2025-12-10text/htmlen-USMobile Health Technology, Empowerment, and Self-Respect: A Feminist Analysis2025-12-102025TWOProject MUSE®1340512026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002025-12-10Intersectionality in Healthcare Ethics: Feminist Contributions and the Three Amendments
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976748
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In 2019, Yolonda Wilson et al. published an article in the American Journal of Bioethics on the need for physicians to incorporate an intersectional approach to their professional interactions. They argued that understanding patients’ intersectional identities could lead to more therapeutic interactions between physicians and patients. The article was immediately followed by a mountain of feedback, varying from strong support to critiques and arguments on why we should not adopt such an approach. According to a recent systematic review on the use of intersectionality in bioethics, the topic of intersectionality has seen an exponential increase since 2019 (Brünig, Kahrass, and Salloch 2024, 7). There can be no doubt
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/431/image/coversmallIntersectionality in Healthcare Ethics: Feminist Contributions and the Three Amendments2025-12-10text/htmlen-USIntersectionality in Healthcare Ethics: Feminist Contributions and the Three Amendments2025-12-102025TWOProject MUSE®1483912026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002025-12-10Swimming Upstream: Sperm Donor Liability after Dobbs
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976749
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In June 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), two landmark decisions that protected and codified a federal right to abortion. Writing for the 6–3 majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Samuel Alito says this of the right to bodily autonomy and privacy that underpinned those now-overturned precedents:The Court did not claim that this broadly framed right is absolute, and no such claim would be plausible. While individuals are certainly free to think and to say what they wish about “existence,” “meaning,” the “universe,” and “the mystery of human life,” they are not always free to act in accordance with those thoughts.…These
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/431/image/coversmallSwimming Upstream: Sperm Donor Liability after Dobbs2025-12-10text/htmlen-USSwimming Upstream: Sperm Donor Liability after Dobbs2025-12-102025TWOProject MUSE®736902026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002025-12-10Neoliberal Limitations of Technological Liberations
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976750
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Reproductive technologies have a troubling relationship with eugenics (e.g., see Ewing 1988; Arditti et al. 1984; Obasogie 2017), designer babies (e.g., see Brokowski and Adli 2019; So 2022; Steynberg 2023), meat production (e.g., see Betteridge 1981; Cheng et al. 2022; Burfoot and Güngör 2022),1 pharmaceutical profits (e.g., see Goodwin 2010; Sherkow 2016; Spar 2006; Burfoot and Güngör 2022),2 human experimentation (e.g., see Kaupen-Haas 1988; Washington 2007), the military,3 the slave trade (e.g., see Allen 1990; Schwartz 2006; Washington 2007), and witch hunts (e.g., see Federici 2018, 2021; Ehrenreich and English 1989, 2020). They come from (and are for) a system that is institutionally racist, ableist, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/431/image/coversmallNeoliberal Limitations of Technological Liberations2025-12-10text/htmlen-USNeoliberal Limitations of Technological Liberations2025-12-102025TWOProject MUSE®1525192026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002025-12-10Dementia, Care, and Respect
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976751
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Feminist care theory is useful when thinking about ethical and respectful caring relationships with people with dementia, ethically sound health care decisions involving them, and recognizing continuity between the topics, in keeping with Eva Feder Kittay’s (2013) insistence that “health care is first of all care” (71). In each we should recognize the capacities of people with dementia to care about things and be in caring relationships. In each we should attend to what their caregivers require to be in good caring relationships with them. I focus on people living with dementia rather than decisions about end of life. After introductory remarks defining care, autonomy, and dementia, I outline three insights from
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/431/image/coversmallDementia, Care, and Respect2025-12-10text/htmlen-USDementia, Care, and Respect2025-12-102025TWOProject MUSE®1426032026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002025-12-10Choosing Cesareans? New Imaginaries beyond Consent/Coercion
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976752
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Should birthing people be able to choose to have cesarean sections for personal reasons? As feminists, how do we interpret, respond to, and make sense of such choices? Do we dismiss them as evidence of “false consciousness” or “internalized oppression”? Do we refuse to entertain that they even exist and argue that such choices are not really choices at all but generally the products of medical coercion and manipulation? Or do we simply conclude that as long as she is making a choice, it is a feminist act. Our answers to these questions will reveal much about our own particular feminist investments and attachments. Such questions themselves are also already grounded in a specific set of racial, class, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/431/image/coversmallChoosing Cesareans? New Imaginaries beyond Consent/Coercion2025-12-10text/htmlen-USChoosing Cesareans? New Imaginaries beyond Consent/Coercion2025-12-102025TWOProject MUSE®1082562026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002025-12-10Involuntary Treatment Legislation in Canada: Implications for Pregnant People and Parents
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976753
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Governments in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, New Brunswick, and British Columbia have, since 2023, proposed plans to establish (or amend) legislation to enable involuntary treatment for people who use criminalized substances. Although provinces typically have provisions in place to admit people into involuntary medical treatment—on the basis of either a medical assessment or a court order—these proposals are the first to enable mandatory treatment explicitly for substance use.In Alberta, the Compassionate Intervention Act passed into law in May 2025 and is intended to allow “adult family members, guardians, healthcare professionals, police or peace officers to request a treatment order for those whose
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/431/image/coversmallInvoluntary Treatment Legislation in Canada: Implications for Pregnant People and Parents2025-12-10text/htmlen-USInvoluntary Treatment Legislation in Canada: Implications for Pregnant People and Parents2025-12-102025TWOProject MUSE®691432026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002025-12-10The Disability Bioethics Reader ed. by Joel Michael Reynolds and Christine Wieseler (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976754
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Over the past few years, I have become more engaged in critical studies and disability justice at large because of intersectional feminist disability scholars such as Sami Schalk and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (among others), in addition to disability activists such as Alice Wong and Imani Barbarin.1 I am delighted to take on the responsibility of reading and writing a book review for The Disability Bioethics Reader as I am interested in seeing how bioethics literature can help support my prior readings about activist work and critical texts within disability studies. As such, my time in graduate studies, including taking a disability ethics course, and engagement with online activism proved to be a valuable
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-15T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/431/image/coversmallThe Disability Bioethics Reader ed. by Joel Michael Reynolds and Christine Wieseler (review)2025-12-10text/htmlen-USThe Disability Bioethics Reader ed. by Joel Michael Reynolds and Christine Wieseler (review)2025-12-102025TWOProject MUSE®168142026-05-15T00:00:00-05:002025-12-10