''IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics'' is a biannual

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providing a forum 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 ...

for

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thought and debate. The journal (pronounced "I-Jay-Fab") is a publication of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Mary Rawlinson (of

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) was its inaugural editor (2006) and served in that capacity until she stepped down in 2016. She was replaced by a team of editors including Robyn Bluhm,

Hilde Lindemann Hilde Lindemann (also ''Hilde Lindemann Nelson'') is an American philosophy professor and bioethicist and emerita professor at Michigan State University. Lindemann earned her B.A. in German language and literature in 1969 at the University of Ge ...

Jamie Lindemann Nelson Jamie Lindemann Nelson is a philosophy professor and bioethicist currently teaching at Michigan State University. Nelson earned her doctorate in philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1980 and taught at the University of Ten ...

(all of

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) and Jackie Leach Scully (of

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). Kate Caras as an employee of

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was the journal's publisher from 2006–2014. She then transitioned to the position of senior managing editor when production was taken over by the

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in 2014. A number of ''IJFAB''s published articles include original contributions in French and Spanish; as well, some articles have been "specifically written and translated for ''IJFAB''." The journal's fee structure is set up in such a way that copies can be made available for free to members in the Global South. The ''IJFAB Blog'' was started in 2013. Alison Reiheld is the editor.

Scope

In its mission statement, ''IJFAB'' states that it "welcomes feminist scholarship from any discipline on ethical issues related to health, health care, and the biomedical sciences, or to the social, economic, and environmental determinants of health." The first call for papers was issued by Wendy Rogers and Carolyn McLeod (FAB Co-coordinators) and was published in 2008 as a special issue entitled, "Doing Feminist Bioethics." This issue addressed the contributions of feminist scholars to bioethics, aiming to show why gender matters in bioethics, and how feminist scholarship contributes to the field by shaping its methods, problems, and concepts. According to Mary Rawlinson, " rtually every issue includes an array of global perspectives, as well as essays ...that clearly situate bioethical issues in their transnational context."

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2015

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of 0.488, ranking it 30th out of 40 journals in the category "Women's Studies", and 38th out of 51 journals in the category "Ethics".

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''IJFAB Blog''

International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics website
{{DEFAULTSORT:International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Academic journals published by university presses Biannual journals Bioethics journals English-language journals Feminist journals Publications established in 2008 Women's studies journals

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Abstracting and indexing

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