Kirejczyk, M. (Marta)
Research profile
Background
Marta Kirejczyk is assistant professor in Science Technology and Society at the STeHPS unit. She was trained as physicist (MSc from the University of Warsaw) and as social anthropologist (MSc from the University of Utrecht). She received her PhD in Political Sciences from the University of Leiden. As anthropologist she conducted field studies in rural communities of Mexico, Bolivia and Peru. Since 1982 she is involved in the Social Studies of Science, Technology and Society, first at the Free University of Amsterdam and since 1988 at the University of Twente.
Research
She is interested in the role of public and political debates in the processes of shaping the space for the development and social entrenchment of new bio-medical sciences and technologies. In earlier research she addressed the issues of the mutual shaping of gender and reproductive technologies. Her current research focuses on the comparative analysis of regulatory policies in the field of embryo and stem cell research, with special reference to the role of cultural diversity.
Scientific publications (selection)
kirejczyk, M. 2005. Het belang van publieke betrokkenheid bij medisch-ethische onderwerpen. In Debat ter discussie. Wie mag meepraten over medische technologie? Werkdocument. Den Haag: Rathenau Instituut, 115-120
Kirejczyk, M., Rip, A. Van Berkel, D. e.a. 2003. Ruimte voor rechtvaardigheid. Reconstructie van de dynamiek in de processen van besluitvorming over toelating van vier medische interventies: IVF, maternale serumscreening, taxoïden en rivastigmine: ZonMw programma Verdelingsvraagstukken.
Kirejczyk, Martha; van Berkel, Dymphie & Swierstra, Tsjalling. 2001. Nieuwe voortplanting: afscheid van de ooievaar. Den Haag: Rathenau Instituut, Studie 44.available online
Bodies of Technology. Women’s Involvement with Reproductive Medicine. 2000. Edited by S. A.R., N. Oudshoorn and M. Kirejczyk. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.available online
Kirejczyk, M. 2000. Users, Values and Markets: The Shaping of Users through the Cultural and Legal Appropriation of In Vitro Fertilisation’ and ‘Enculturation through script selection. Political discourse and practice of in vitro fertilisation in the Netherlands. In Bodies of Technology. Women’s Involvement with Reproductive Medicine, edited by S. A.R., N. Oudshoorn and M. Kirejczyk. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.available online
Professional/Popular publications (selection)
Kater, L., and M. Kirejczyk. 2005. Kennis, beloften en de ontwikkeling van ethisch beleid. Een wetenschapsdynamische kijk op het medisch-ethische debat over embryo’s en stamcellen. In Kennis - vragen in de polder, Jaarboek KennisSamenleving. Amsterdam: Aksant, 55-70
M., Kirejczyk. 2000. Beleidsculturen en menselijke embryo’s: Een vergelijking van beleidsontwikkeling in Nederland en het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Beleidswetenschap, kwartaalschrift voor beleidsonderzoek en beleidspraktijk 14 (3):203-228.
Kirejczyk, M. 1996. Met technologie gezegend? Gender en de omstreden invoering van in vitro fertilisatie in de Nederlandse Gezondheidszorg. Utrecht: Uitgeverij Jan van Arkel. Utrecht: Uitgeverij Jan van Arkel.
Teaching
162250 Introduction to Science and Technology Studies (Master PSTS)
162260 Governance of Technology (Master PSTS)
162280 Research Skills and Thesis Proposal (Master PSTS
