Ellen K. Feder

Posts by Ellen K. Feder

• Bioethics Forum Essay

  Preventing Homosexuality (and Uppity Women) in the Womb?

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  Bioethics Forum Essay

  Two weeks ago, Time magazine reported on our ongoing efforts to protect the rights of pregnant women offered dexamethasone, a risky Class C steroid aimed at female fetuses that may have a form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). It appears many women and children exposed to dexamethasone through...

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  Bad Vibrations

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  Bioethics Forum Essay

  In “The Rhetoric of Dehumanization: An Analysis of Medical Reports of the Tuskegee Syphilis Project,” Martha Solomon brilliantly demonstrates how the project’s researchers hid their work in plain sight. Specifically, Solomon used the published reports of the Tuskegee syphilis study – which in...

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  Prenatal Dex: Update and Omnibus Reply

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  Our Bioethics Forum essay from a little over a month ago has already spawned three further essays. So we’ve asked the editors to indulge us in this single reply and update.

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  Fetal Cosmetology

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  There’s a common misperception that, now that the Johns Hopkins psychologist John Money is gone, so are all the ethical problems with the way people with genital anomalies are treated. Not so.

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