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FAB World Congress 2014Mexico City, June 23-25

Healthcare Ethics: Local, Global, Universal

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Monday, June 23 – morning sessions

Time Room 1 Room 2 Room 3

9:00-9:30 Chair Welcome: Introductions, housekeeping

9:30-10:30 Plenary Session 1Chair: Debora Diniz – BrazilAbortion and Conscientious Objection: Local Stories to a Global UnderstandingFlorencia Luna – Argentina, Ana Cristina Gonzalea Velez – Colombia, Maria Luisa Sanchez - Mexico

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Mental Health SessionChair: Pamela Lomelino• “Feminist Bioethics and

‘Posttraumatic Growth’” Ami Harbin• “Forced Treatment of the Severely

Mentally Ill” Norah Martin

Healthcare Systems SessionChair: Elizabeth Victor• “Can a Healthcare System Include

Ancillary Care?” Monique Lanoix• “Autonomy, Healthcare, and

Institutional Constraints” Sonya Charles

Risk and Protection SessionChair: Dirce Guilhem• “Floodgates and Suspicion: Women

and Suicide Risk in the Irish Public Discourse on Abortion” Heike Felzmann

• “Protecting Future People: A Feminist Analysis of Intergenerational Justice in a Context of Possible Reproductive Harms” Isabel Karpin & Roxanne Mykitiuk

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Monday, June 23 – afternoon sessions

Time Room 1 Room 2 Room 3

12:00-1:00 Implicit Bias SessionChair: James Dwyer• “The Sedimentation of Bias in

Medical Institutions” Rebecca Kukla & Bryce Huebner

• “Developing a Deaf Feminist Bioethics: The Case of Cochlear Implants” Teresa Blankenmeyer Burke

Medical Tourism SessionChair: Viola Schubert-Lehnhardt• “Domestic Implications for the

International Regulation of Reproductive Travel in the U.S. and Canada” Katy Fulfer

• “An Industry Out-of-the-Closet: LGBTI Medical Tourism” Jason Behrmann

Childbirth SessionChair: Vasiliki Petousi• “Achieving Reproductive Justice in

Childbirth” Allison Wolf• “The Case Against Cesarean Delivery

on Maternal Request in Labor” Paul Burcher & Lisa Campo Engelstein

1:00-2:30 Lunch LunchCountry Reps Meeting 1:30-2:30

Lunch

2:30-4:00 Clinical Research SessionChair: Gillian Crozier• “Autonomy and Exploitation in

International Clinical Research” Danielle Wenner

• “Is It Ethical to Exclude Pregnant Women from Clinical Research?” Anna Smajdor & Laura Bowater

Perplexities and Paradoxes SessionChair: Claire Morrissey• “What Disaster Ethics Can Learn from

Feminist Bioethics” James Dwyer• “Paradoxes of Resistance: Public

Health, Childhood Vaccines, and the Moral Work of Motherhood” Alison Thompson

4:00-4:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break

4:30-5:30 Plenary Session 2Chair: Sergio RegoChoices and Tensions: Childcare Strategies of Mexican Mothers Working at Feminist OrganizationsRoberta Flores Angeles & Olivia Tena Guerrero

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Monday, June 23 – evening agendaTuesday, June 24 – morning sessions

Monday, June 23

Time Room 1 Room Room

6:00-7:00 IJFAB ReceptionHosted by Stony Brook University

7:00-10:00 Working Dinner for IJFAB Board Members

Tuesday, June 24

Time Room 1 Room 2 Room 3

9:00-10:30 Plenary Session 3Chairs: Lindsey Porter & Stephen WilkinsonEthics of Uterus TransplantationJacques Balayla, Ariel Lefkowitz, Ruby Catsanos, Mianna Lotz, Timothy Murphy

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Panel SessionChair: Rebecca Kukla“Caring from the Outside”Andrea Pitts, Alison Reiheld, Elizabeth Victor

Panel SessionChair: Jennifer Parks“Moral Pioneers: The Role of the Public in Bioethical Deliberation”Jackie Leach Scully & Hilde Lindemann

12:30-2:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch

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Tuesday, June 24 – afternoon sessions

Time Room 1 Room 2 Room 3

2:00-3:30 Global Health SessionChair: Ami Harbin• “A Feminist Bioethics Approach to

Global Occupational Health and Safety” Angela Thachuck

• “Something Fell Out: A Comparison of Standards of Care for Uterine Prolapse in Nepal” Jacob Dahlke

• “The Doha Model of Organ Donation and Transplantation: Thinking Beyond Citizenship” Dominique Elizabeth Martin & Riadh Fadhil

Embodiment SessionChair: Carolyn Ells• “Just Modeling? Eating Disorders and

Feminist Concerns” Galya Hildesheimer & Hemda Gur-Arie

• “Individual Responsibility, Empowerment, and Moral Obligation to ‘Fix’ the ‘Broken’ Reproductive Body” Vasiliki Petousi, Irina Sifaki, & Toni M. Calasanti

• “The Negative Side of Positive Thinking for Women with Breast Cancer” Erin Fredricks

Moral Theory SessionChair: Timothy Murphy• “On the Necessity of Universals in

Bioethics” Mary Rawlinson• “A Feminist Account of the Nature and

Importance of the Concept of ‘Dignity’ for Bioethics” Clair Morrissey

• “Standpoint Theory and Healthcare: The Zapatista Experience” Carol Quinn & Sergio Gallagos

3:30-4:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break

4:00-5:30 Transnational Contract Pregnancy Session Chair: • “Guinea Pigs and Baby Ovens: The

Objectification of Vulnerable Populations in Transnational Human Subjects Research and Commercial Contract Pregnancy” Emma Ryman

• “Feminist Issues in Domestic and Transnational Surrogacy: The Case of Japan” Jennifer Parks

• “At the Intersections of Emotional and Biological Labor: Understanding Transnational Surrogacy as Social Redemption” Gillian Crozier, Jennifer Johnson, & Christopher Hazler

Gametes and Embryos SessionChair: Jackie Leach Scully• “Genes, Gametes and Embryos: The

Politics of Reproductive Material Disposition” Alisa C. von Hagel & Daniela Mansbach

• “Prenatal Screening, Women’s Reproductive Autonomy, and Individualized Choice” Stephen Wilkinson

Infertility SessionChair: Sergio Rego• “Fertility Preservation Technologies for

Children: The Risk of ‘Sexualizing’ Children Involved in Stage 1 Fertility Preservation Decision-making” Angel Petropanagos

• “Toward a Public Health Approach to Infertility” Marie-Eve Lemoine & Vardit Ravitsky

• “Infertility and Reproductive Loss in the Paintings of Frida Kahlo” Sylvia Hübel

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Tuesday, June 24 – evening agendaWednesday, June 25

Tuesday, June 24

Time Room 1 Room 2 Room 3

5:30-7:00 FAB General Meeting

7:30 Banquet

Wednesday, June 25

Time Don Alberto 1-4

8:30-9:30 Plenary Crossover FAB-IAB SessionChairs: Angus Dawson and Manuel H. Ruiz de ChavezHealth, Safety, and Women’s Human Rights: A World-wide Culture of Sexual Violence Against WomenSpeaker: Ruth MacklinCommentary: Søren Holm

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