Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics), or FAB, is a network of
feminists
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in
bioethics
Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, med ...
, adding feminist perspectives to
ethical
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issues in
health care
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and the
biosciences
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. It publishes a journal, ''
IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics'', and is affiliated with the
International Association of Bioethics
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, with which it meets.
History
FAB was formed in 1992 at the inaugural meeting of the IAB. Its aims are to create a more inclusive bioethical theory from the viewpoint of
disadvantaged
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groups such as women. It critiques bioethical theory that
privileges groups with power.
As ''IJFAB'' editor Mary C. Rawlinson writes of the general state of bioethics in the introduction to the journal's inaugural issue,
Co-founding member Anne Donchin writes this on the occasion of FAB's 20th anniversary:
See also
*
Bioethics
Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, med ...
* ''
IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics''
External links
FABnet.org
''IJFAB Blog''''IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics''Section entry in the ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy''
References
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Organizations established in 1992
Feminist ethics
Bioethics