אביעד רז

פרופסור, המחלקה לסוציולוגיה ואנתרופולוגיה

אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון

באר-שבע 84105

ישראל

טל‘ 08-6472058

פקס 08-6472932

aviadraz@bgu.ac.il

 

 

 

The Gene and the Genie book jacketCover: Emotions at WorkCover: Riding the Black Ship

Aviad E. Raz                                                                                                                      

Professor, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology   

Ben-Gurion University                                                                                                                                      

Be'er-Sheva 84105                                                                                                                    
Israel  
                                                                                                                                                                              

Phone: + 972 8 6472058                                                                                                                                      

Fax: + 972 8 6472932                                                                                                                                            

 

aviadraz@bgu.ac.il                                                                                               

 

 

עבודתי האקדמית מתרכזת בכמה נושאים הנוגעים לארגונים: תרבות ארגונית מפרספקטיבה סוציולוגית ואנתרופולוגית - התאמה והטמעה של מודלים ניהוליים מערביים, ביפן ובדרום-קוריאה; ניתוח בין-תרבותי של ניהול משאבי אנוש, וחיבורו לסרגל ביצועים בארגון; סוכני התרבות התאגידית הגלובלית, וכיצד הם יוצרים מסגרות חדשות של הזדהות עבור חברי הארגון, תוך שימת-לב להבדלים הלאומיים והמקומיים. רכשתי ניסיון מעשי בייעוץ ארגוני בנושאי תרבות ארגונית, וכאחראי על הפרקטיקום של סוציולוגיה ארגונית מזה יותר מעשר שנים. לחצו כאן לפירוט נוסף בנושא ניסיון במחקר וייעוץ ארגוני .

בשנים האחרונות אני עוסק בתחום נוסף הצומח מהחיבור בין תחומי העניין שלי בארגוני רפואה וארגוני חולים בהקשר חברתי וביו-אתי של בריאות וקהילה, בקהילות בעלות מאפיינים דתיים ואתניים בישראל; לדוגמה, כיצד מדיניות של הממסד הרפואי, דפוסי צריכה של הציבור, ועמדות של ארגוני תמיכה בחולים, בישראל, גרמניה וארה"ב, משקפים דגמים תרבותיים שונים לגבי בדיקות גנטיות בהקשרים שונים: מניעה ו/או טיפול, גנטיקה בקהילה, ואוגניקה.

 

Research

My research focuses on religious/ethnic groups and identities in contemporary Israeli society, especially in the context of health and family studies; as well as on the social and bioethical aspects of medical organizations, medical sociology and cross-cultural bioethics, especially in regard to community genetics and patient support/disability organizations. I also conduct research in the fields of organizational culture, cross-cultural management, and globalization.

Selected Publications

Books

Werner-Felmayer, G., Minari, J., Schicktanz, S., Raz, A., Sharon, T., eds. (2023) Data-intensive medicine and healthcare: Ethical and social implications in the era of artificial intelligence and automated decision making.

Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/978-2-8325-3534-9

Raz, A. and S. Schicktanz (2016). Comparative Empirical Bioethics: Dilemmas of Genetic Testing and Euthanasia in Israel and Germany. Berlin: Springer

2014. COUSIN MARRIAGES: Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change. Edited by Alison Shaw and Aviad Raz. Berghan Press

2009. Community Genetics and Genetic Alliances: Eugenics, Carrier Testing, and Networks of Risk. NY and  London: Routledge (CLICK to see more details)

2005. The Gene and the Genie: Tradition, Medicalization, and Genetic Counseling in a Bedouin Community. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology Series.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Articles (selection)

2024

Kaufman, R., W. Schupmann, S. Timmermans, A Raz (2024). High risk, mixed reward: Making genetic test results actionable in cardiology, Social Science & Medicine, 354, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117049.

Horn, R., Merchant, J. […] Raz, A. & The UK-FR+GENE (Genetics and Ethics Network) Consortium. Ethical and social implications of public–private partnerships in the context of genomic/big health data collection. Eur J Hum Genet (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-024-01608-9

Raz, A., Heinrichs, B., Avnoon, N., Eyal, G., & Inbar, Y. (2024). Prediction and explainability in AI: Striking a new balance? Big Data & Society, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241235871

Gaydarska, H., Takashima, K., Shahrier, S. Raz, A, Jusaku, M. The interplay of ethics and genetic technologies in balancing the social valuation of the human genome in UNESCO declarations. Eur J Hum Genet (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-024-01549-3

Grosglik R, Raz A, Shahar DR and Avieli N (2024) Considering the alternatives: lessons from Israel’s meat substitutes initiatives. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 7:1342774. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1342774

2023

Rehmann-Sutter, C., Timmermans, D.M. & Raz, A. Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT): is routinization problematic?. BMC Med Ethics 24, 87 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-023-00970-5

Raz A, Minari J, Schicktanz S, Sharon T and Werner-Felmayer G (2023) Editorial: Data-intensive medicine and healthcare: ethical and social implications in the era of artificial intelligence and automated decision-making. Front. Genet. 14:1280344. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1280344

Raz A and Minari J (2023). AI-driven risk scores: should social scoring and polygenic scores based on ethnicity be equally prohibited?. Front. Genet. 14:1169580. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1169580

Raz, A., Minari, J., Takashima, K. et al. (2023). Old and new challenges regarding comparable and viable data sharing in population-scale genomic research. Eur J Hum Genet. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41431-023-01355-3

2022

Kaufman, R., Timmermans, S., & Raz, A. (2022). Genomic uncertainty and genetic counsellors' professional authority. Sociology of Health & Illness, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13582

Aviad Raz, Iris Schneid, Efrat Carmi, Ofir Kedem, Boaz Lerner (2022). Engaging patients in identifying risk factors for ALS. Social Science & Medicine - Qualitative Research in Health. Epublication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100179

Aviad Raz, Stefan Timmermans, Gil Eyal, Kyle Brothers, Jusaku Minari (2022). Challenges for precision public health communication in the era of genomic medicine. Genetics in Medicine, ISSN 1098-3600, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gim.2022.05.010.

Yael Amano, Aviad Raz, Stefan Timmermans, Shiri Shkedi‑Rafid (2022). Cancer patients’ understandings of genetic variants of uncertain significance in clinical care. Journal of Community Genetics https://doi.org/10.1007/s12687-022-00594-z

Tamar Nov-Klaiman, Marina Frisman, Aviad E. Raz, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter (2022). Views on disability and prenatal testing among families with down syndrome and disability activists: a comparative analysis of interviews from Germany and Israel, Social Science & Medicine, doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115021

Tamar Nov-Klaiman, Aviad E. Raz & Yael Hashiloni-Dolev (2022). A test of faith? Attitudes of ultraorthodox Jewish parents of children with down syndrome toward prenatal testing, Disability & Society, 10.1080/09687599.2022.2070059

Levin Fridman, Alma, Aviad Raz, Stefan Timmermans, Shiri Shkedi‑Rafid (2022). "Views of Israeli Health Care Professionals regarding Communication of Genetic Variants of Uncertain Significance to Patients" Journal of Genetic Counseling 31(4):912-921. doi: 10.1002/jgc4.1560.

Raz, A. & Y. Hashiloni-Dolev (2022). “Donating with eyes shut”: Attitudes regarding DNA donation to a large-scale biobank in Israel. New Genetics & Society, 10.1080/14636778.2021.2007066

2021

Levin Fridman, Alma, Aviad Raz, Stefan Timmermans, Shiri Shkedi‑Rafid (2021). Fragmented responsibility: Views of Israeli HCPs regarding patient recontact following variant reclassification. Journal of Community Genetics https://doi.org/10.1007/s12687-021-00556-x

Raz, A. et al. [PReGGi group] (2021). Comparing Germany and Israel regarding debates on policy-making at the beginning of life: PGD, NIPT and their paths of routinization. Ethik in der Medizin DOI: 10.1007/s00481-021-00652-z

Raz, A. Yael Keshet, Ariela Popper-Giveon, Maha Sabbah Karkabi (2021). One size does not fit all: Lessons from Israel's Covid-19 vaccination drive and hesitancy, Vaccine, ISSN 0264-410X, doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.06.004.

Raz, A. Jasmine Vardi, Shelly Reisner Vain, Amir Meiri, Gali Barkan, Foad Azem, Hadar Amir (2021). Unmet communication needs and moral work in the disposition decision concerning surplus frozen embryos: The perspectives of IVF users, Social Science & Medicine, 274, doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113804

2020

Rimon-Zarfaty, N., Raz, A., Bar-Nadav, B. and Vaintropov, E. (2020) Collective representation and the founders’ culture in non-profit organisations: the case of Israel’s national association for autism, Voluntary Sector Review, DOI: 10.1332/204080520X16050133060491

Katz, Ori, Yael Hashiloni-Dolev, Charlotte Kroløkke & A. Raz (2020). Frozen: Social and bioethical aspects of cryopreservation, New Genetics and Society, 39:3, 243-249 (Editorial)

Levy-Aronovic, S., Lahav-Raz, Y., & Raz, A. (2020). Who Takes Part in the Political Game? The Sex Work Governance Debate in Israel. Sexuality Research & Social Policy, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-020-00476-4

Raz, A., E. Niemic, H. Howard, J. Cockbain, S. Sterckx & B. Prainsack. (2020). Transparency, Consent and Trust in the Use of Customers’ Data by an Online Genetic Testing Company: An Exploratory Survey Among 23andMe Users. New Genetics and Society. DOI: 10.1080/14636778.2020.1755636 

Iris Schneid, A. Raz (2020). The mask of autism: Social camouflaging and impression management as coping/normalization from the perspectives of autistic adults, Social Science & Medicine, 248, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112826.

 

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