FAB Gab

In this episode we talk to Cristina Richie about her paper "NHS Policy on HPV Vaccines Is Failing Females Aged 26–45" in Volume 18, Issue 2. In it Cristina talks to us about her views of a tricky resource alllcoation question concerning the balance of budgets in relation prevention or screening activities for a risk that varies by age.

Cristina also has spoken to the UK media about this in the context of the NHS' decision, and you can see that work here, here, and here and has another paper here.

In this episode, we talk to Amanda Sears about her article in Volume 18, Issue 2 of the Journal "Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare: Reevaluating Routine Pregnancy Testing"Do you know what happens in your setting?

This episode, we talk to Blake Hereth about their paper in Vol. 18 Issue 2 of the journal "Swimming Upstream: Sperm Donor Liability after Dobbs" The paper is an interesting argument about what the (possibly unconsidered) implications are for sperm donors of the interpretation of moral responsibility implied in the overturning of Roe v Casey by the Supreme Court (and resultant actions by various states). Check it out!

In this episode we talk to Gabriela Arguedas-Ramirez about her paper in the Special Issue on Climate Change, Issue 18 Vol 1 "Dead Food, the Political Economy of Disease and Climate Injustice: Cynical Reason and Decolonial Feminist Bioethics" We chat about taking these more structural analyses and how the work came about and what's next for her.

In this episode we talk to Kayla and Paul about their paper "Challenging Anti-Fatness amid the Climate Crisis" which can be found in Volume 18 Issue 1, the Special Issue on Climate Change.

CORRECTION: Emma says "Jess James" and "AABHL" instead of "Jen James" and "ASBH" - she's deeply apologetic and can only blame the switch to antipodean time zones and settings for the misspeaking. To check out some of Dr James excellent work, see her profile

This episode, we talk to Christoph about his open access article in Vol. 18 Issue 1 "Janna Thompson’s Argument for Climate Obligations"

This is from the Special Issue on Climate Justice, which can be viewed here

A transcript is available here

This episode we are talking Dr Andrew Frederick Smith and Dr Mercer Gary (both from Drexel University) about their paper with colleagues, Dr Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner (University of Maryland) and Dr Joel M. Reynolds (Georgetown University): "Progressive Reckonings, Indigenous Feminist Praxis, and Resisting the Common Roots of Reproductive and Climate Injustice" (available in Issue 18/1).

It's a great paper making very helpful connections to think through these urgent and yet perennial topics.

A transcript is available here

This episode we are talking Dr Shadi Heidarifar, an Assistant Professor in Bioethics  in the College of Medicine at Roseman University of Health Sciences. Her paper " Toward a Feminist Model for Women’s Healthcare: The Problem of False Consciousness and the Moral Status of Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery" (available in Issue 17/2) is a great read and we have a really great discussion about her work. Check it out!

We have had some logistical and technical difficulties of late with the podcast, but we are hoping to resolve this and have more regular content out soon.

This week, we're talking to Dr. Richard Matthews about his paper, "The Moral Asymmetry of Conscientious Provision and Conscientious Refusal, Insights from Oppression and Allyship,"which is available in Volume 17, Issue 1.

Listeners may also be interested in the following paper, given the discussion of mandated transvaginal ultrasounds in abortion bills:Green, K. A. (2013). Humiliation, degradation, penetration: What legislatively required pre-abortion transvaginal ultrasounds and rape have in common. J. Crim. L. & Criminology, 103, 1171.

Transcript available here, many thanks to Hannah Carpenter for her work on this.

After a bit of a hiatus, we’re back and will be publishing an episode monthly.

In this episode, hosts Emma Tumilty and Danica Davies talk with Zoe Tongue about her paper, "Locating Abortion and Contraception on the Obstetric Violence Continuum" appearing in Volume 17, Issue 1 of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.

We'd like to also thank Hannah Carpenter, PhD candidate in the Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch for her support in correcting the transcript.