 | Shirin Garmaroudi Naef PhD Candidate - Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich Anthropologie, Droit, Bioéthique, éthique |
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03.03.2015-30.04.2015
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Iran From an Anthropological Perspective: Legal and Jurisprudential Responses and Social Dynamics
My PhD thesis, entitled “Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Iran from an Anthropological Perspective: Legal and Jurisprudential Responses and Social Dynamics” examines the Iranian and contemporary Shia legal debates and discussions on technologies of assisted reproduction (including donor conception and surrogacy) and looks at the regulations and implementation of these technologies in Iran. The methodological approach for this research is a combination of extensive ethnography and the textual analysis of important contemporary academic and religious seminary publications in Iran, from Shia Jurisprudence and Persian histories to the analysis of laws and verdicts. During my stay at Brocher, I will work on completing my PhD thesis and on planning for turning it into a book. Undoubtedly, staying in the Brocher will provide a good opportunity to exchange viewpoints and suggestions with other experts and scholars. I am also co-editing a book manuscript with Sibylle Lustenberger (University of Bern), entitled “Rethinking Assisted Conception: Kinship, Religion and Modernity” (manuscript to be submitted to Palgrave Macmillan for review). From 2009 to 2012, I was a doctoral fellow and member of the Research Training Group Bioethics at the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW) at the University of Tübingen, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). I graduated in Social Anthropology, Islamic Studies and General Linguistics at the University of Bern, Switzerland in 2008.
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