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Image credit: Jpogi (Wikimedia Commons) Bioethics Forum, the blog of the Hastings Center Report, publishes thoughtful commentary from a range of perspectives on timely issues in bioethics. Starting...
View ArticleBIOETHICS DIGEST: Volume 1
Image credit: Jpogi (Wikimedia Commons) Welcome to the first Bioethics Digest, brought to you in association with the editors of the Bioethics Forum. This digest aims to bring you commentary on today’s...
View ArticleSymposium on Martin & Le Corre, “Sensory Substitution Is Substitution”
If you haven’t gone over to The Brains Blog to view the Mind & Language symposium on Jean-Rémy Martin and François Le Corre’s “Sensory Substitution Is Substitution,” part of the journal’s April...
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Up until now, the Philosopher’s Eye blog has been asking of you, the reader, to do just that; read. Read about Philosophy in our world and society. This month, we’re looking for a little bit more. See,...
View ArticleBruce Jenner and the Aging Celebrity
Bruce Jenner’s gender transition has been the subject of obsessive media attention for some months now, culminating in Diane Sawyer’s interview of him on the ABC news show 20/20. In a poignant...
View Article“Unsettling Science and Religion: Contributions and Questions from Queer...
“Unsettling Science and Religion: Contributions and Questions from Queer Studies” IRAS, August 8-15, Star Island, NH – Event Registration Call for Papers – More Information Queer studies, the critical...
View ArticleLGBT Health and Human Rights: New Ideas for Dynamic Times
Last fall, the Hastings Center Report and the Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein medical center co-sponsored a symposium, building on the release of the LGBT Bioethics: Visibility,...
View ArticleThe Physician, the Bioethicist, and the LGBT Community
As a discipline, medical ethics has a long history grappling with questions that grow out of clinical encounters. It asks, for example, “What is expected of a physician in regard to confidentiality and...
View ArticleLGBTs in the workplace
Canadian Journal of Administrative Science Call for Papers Deadline: October 30, 2015 As the workforce becomes increasingly diverse, a lot of attention has been paid to the career issues of women and...
View ArticleWorld, City, Queer
“World, City, Queer” is a collection of papers edited by Natalie Oswin (McGill University, Canada). While scholars have become increasingly attuned to the geographies of LGBT in/tolerance across the...
View ArticleYouTube Beauty Guru Ingrid Nilsen Comes Out in Emotional Video
If you’ve been on Facebook, YouTube, or even Time.com in the last ten hours, you may have seen the headlines that Ingrid Nilsen, a YouTube beautician with a following of 3.3 million followers,...
View ArticleQueering Philosophy—How can queer theory inform and transform the practice of...
Within philosophy, queer theory remains marginal and mostly invisible. Often it is relegated to the philosophical sidelines as “activism, not philosophy,” as a special personal concern of demographic...
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Blogging today is a dime a dozen, each with an arsenal of snappy, digestible, tips and tricks for everything from career advice to trimming off excess fat. In a world full of click-holes, we often find...
View ArticleThe Time Is Now: Bioethics and LGBT Issues
“Bioethics has an obligation to work toward the resolution of real and pressing issues.” that’s where Tia Powell and Mary Beth Foglia start with the ideas and driving force behind their special issue,...
View ArticleThe Psychological Burden Associated with the Stigmatization of Homosexuality
The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) has long focused on the psychological burden associated with the stigmatization of homosexuality and, in articles over the past decade,...
View ArticleAgeing into Lesbian-Feminism – An Excerpt from a Life
It was 1969, I was just 12 years old, and Stonewall had not yet happened. My best friend Linda and I hung out at the local schoolyard wearing army jackets with male names emblazoned on the pocket. She...
View ArticleWhat Would Universal Marriage Equality Mean for Culture?
Until recently, American culture has been relatively devoid of representations of the LGBTQ couple. In fact, one of the frequent observations made by critics of television programs and films...
View ArticleEducating the Next Generation on LGBTQ Rights
Do you remember when you first learned what the word ‘gay’ meant? Maybe you had a classmate with two mothers, maybe you saw it on TV, or maybe you heard it being used as an insult on the playground....
View ArticleUnderstanding Human Sexuality in a Broad Context
Taken from the Introduction to The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, published May 2015, edited by Patricia Whelehan and Anne Bolin www.encyclopediaofhumansexuality.com Sexuality as an...
View ArticleDiane Sawyer’s Interview with Bruce Jenner: What Were Its Lessons?
Diane Sawyer’s April 24, 2015 ABC News interview with Bruce Jenner drew 16.9 million total viewers. The interview was deemed highly anticipated, as the American public, via media reports, expected to...
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