A E Raz
Biographic Data
| ID | 9241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A E Raz |
| GIVEN NAMES | A E |
| FAMILY NAME | Raz |
| SIGNATURE | RAZ A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6268-0409 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
“Sailing the ship while building it”: Sandbox regulation and the political economy of Israeli healthcare AI innovation
It has to somehow permeate to the public: Expert views on the solidaristic potential of Israel’s National genomic biobank initiative
The 2018 Digital Health Initiative (DHI) implemented by Israel included the establishment of a national biobank. Establishing a national biobank was clouded in ample rhetoric of solidarity promising scientific and economic progress, and financial benefits. To assess the potential of these promises, we conducted 15 semi-structured interviews with experts with a management, health or political background from Israel over a one-year period. Applying…
Coping With the Spectre of Cardiac Mortality: The Role of Genetic Testing
A diagnosis of cardiovascular disease increases death awareness by raising the possibility of sudden death. Engaging sociological literature on patient experiences with terror management theory, we examine how patients diagnosed with cardiac disease turn to online communities to interpret the possibility of cardiac death. Drawing on 33 semi-structured interviews with individuals diagnosed with a cardiac condition and who have undergone genetic te…
Prediction and explainability in AI: Striking a new balance
The debate regarding prediction and explainability in artificial intelligence (AI) centers around the trade-off between achieving high-performance accurate models and the ability to understand and interpret the decisionmaking process of those models. In recent years, this debate has gained significant attention due to the increasing adoption of AI systems in various domains, including healthcare, finance, and criminal justice. While prediction an…
High risk, mixed reward: Making genetic test results actionable in cardiology
Behavioral Self-Blame in PTSD—Etiology, Risk Factors, and Proposed Interventions
Loss of control experienced during a traumatic event may result in persistent long-term feelings of lack of control over one's behavior
Genomic uncertainty and genetic counsellors' professional authority
Genomic tests regularly produce Variants of Uncertain Significance (VUS), mutations of which currently little is known but may turn out to be disease-causing. The communication of such variants in the United States is typically delegated to genetic counsellors. Based on in-depth interviews, we examined this communication as an indicator of the genetic counsellor's professional status: did they take a subordinate position by reporting out the resu…
Engaging patients in identifying risk factors for ALS
While policy-driven discourses promote patient engagement in research, its practice is severely limited. Drawing on participant observations and interviews conducted in 2021, we describe a process of research collaboration with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients and their relatives to modify an epidemiological questionnaire on ALS, engaging patients as experts in the process of adapting the questionnaire to be patient oriented. The two …
Cancer patients’ understandings of genetic variants of uncertain significance in clinical care
A test of faith? Attitudes of ultraorthodox Jewish parents of children with down syndrome toward prenatal testing
The Haredi (ultraorthodox Jewish) community in Israel presents distinct views on disability and prenatal testing compared to the pro-testing attitudes of the Israeli general public. Based on qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with Haredi parents of children with Down syndrome, this study explores the interplay between their personal experiences and community norms in the creation of views on disability and pregnancy management. Th…
Views on disability and prenatal testing among families with Down syndrome and disability activists: A comparative analysis of interviews from Germany and Israel
The prenatal genetic testing arena has witnessed great changes over the past decades and has been the focus of extensive discussion of its ethical, legal, and social implications. Germany and Israel were previously known for strongly contrasting regulations and attitudes of both professionals and laypeople towards genetic testing. Based on qualitative analysis of 37 semi-structured interviews, this study compares German and Israeli family members…
Fragmented responsibility: Views of Israeli HCPs regarding patient recontact following variant reclassification
Donating with eyes shut”: Attitudes regarding DNA donation to a large-scale biobank in Israel
DNA collection raises ethical, legal, and social issues around privacy, consent, participatory science, benefits and risks, biodata governance, and, ultimately, trust. While there is a consensus that DNA biobanks’ success depends on public trust, more evidence is needed regarding the determinants, production, and preservation of such trust. We draw on 14 semi-structured interviews with participants – seven people who donated DNA to an Israeli bio…
Eugenics
Eugenics” is the idea of improving the gene pool of a population. This could be done through selective breeding or genetic enhancement (“positive” eugenics) and/or by preventing the birth of undesirable offspring or preventing them from reproducing (“negative” eugenics). A word with horrific connotations but an indeterminate meaning, eugenics has seen a remarkable pendulum shift between its utopian and dystopian images since the late nineteenth c…
Unmet communication needs and moral work in the disposition decision concerning surplus frozen embryos: The perspectives of IVF users
Transparency, consent and trust in the use of customers' data by an online genetic testing company: An Exploratory survey among 23andMe users
23andMe not only sells genetic testing but also uses customer data in its R&D activities and commercial partnerships. This raises questions about transparency and informed consent. Based on a online survey conducted in 2017–18, we examine attitudes of 368 customers of 23andMe toward the company's use of their data. Our findings point at divides in the context of customers' awareness of the two-sided business model of DTC genetics and their attitu…
Frozen: Social and bioethical aspects of cryopreservation
This foreword is written during the high time of the COVID-19 world epidemic. We are presently reminded that our advanced medical technologies are moving fast forward to realms unimaginable a few d
Who Takes Part in the Political Game? The Sex Work Governance Debate in Israel
Furthermore, we conclude that the issue at hand is not about permitting sex workers to express their views but rather about the need to listen to their critiques to ensure that policy is built on their knowledge and experience
The mask of autism: Social camouflaging and impression management as coping/normalization from the perspectives of autistic adults
Epigenetic metaphors: An interdisciplinary translation of encoding and decoding
Looking at the new and often disputed science of epigenetics, we examined the challenges faced by scientists when they communicate scientific research to the public. We focused on the use of metaphors to illustrate notions of epigenetics and genetics. We studied the “encoding” by epigeneticists and “decoding” in focus groups with diverse backgrounds. We observed considerable overlap in the dominant metaphors favored by both researchers and the la…
Divergent evolution of newborn screening: Israel and the US as gene worlds
Coming to terms with the imperfectly normal child: Attitudes of Israeli parents of screen-positive infants regarding subsequent prenatal diagnosis
Parents like me: Biosociality and lay expertise in self-help groups of parents of screen-positive newborns
This study focuses on patterns of communication and interaction for peer support, which develop among parents of screen-positive children in the socio-medical space created by the diagnostic uncertainty of newborn screening, the limitations of established patient support groups and the daily challenges of screen-positive care management. Based on semi-structured interviews conducted in 2015–2017 with 34 Israeli parents whose child is screen posit…
Representing autism: Challenges of collective representation in German and Israeli associations for and of autistic people
Saving or Subordinating Life? Popular Views in Israel and Germany of Donor Siblings Created through PGD
Doing gender in segregated and assimilative organizations: Ultra‐Orthodox Jewish women in the Israeli high‐tech labour market
Ultra‐Orthodox Jewish (haredi) women in Israel, who are traditionally expected to be both mothers and breadwinners so as to allow their husbands to immerse themselves in religious studies, are recently entering the high‐tech labour market in both segregated and assimilate organizations. This segmented labour market allows the constructed and intersectional character of doing gender in organizations to be examined, which in turn may also effect th…
Important to test, important to support: Attitudes toward disability rights and prenatal diagnosis among leaders of support groups for genetic disorders in Israel
Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland
The mask of autism: Social camouflaging and impression management as coping/normalization from the perspectives of autistic adults
Carrier matching and collective socialization in community genetics: Dor Yeshorim and the reinforcement of stigma
Eugenic utopias/dystopias, reprogenetics, and community genetics
The impetus for this review is the intriguing realisation that eugenics, viewed as dystopian and authoritarian in most of the 20th century, is in the process of being reinterpreted today - in the context of reproductive genetics - as utopian and liberal. This review offers an analytical framework for mapping the growing literature on this subject in order to provide a summary for both teaching and research in medical sociology. Recent works are s…
The Orient Strikes Back: A Global View of Cultural Display
The Orient Strikes Back: A Global View of Cultural Display. Joy Hendry Oxford: Berg, 2000. vii + 257 pp., figures, plates, bibliography, index
Who Takes Part in the Political Game? The Sex Work Governance Debate in Israel
Furthermore, we conclude that the issue at hand is not about permitting sex workers to express their views but rather about the need to listen to their critiques to ensure that policy is built on their knowledge and experience
Representing autism: Challenges of collective representation in German and Israeli associations for and of autistic people
Rituals of Exchange in the Social World of Israeli Beggars: An Exploratory Study
Based on a fieldwork in a central bus station in Israel, this study offers a novel consideration of the symbolic interactions underlying processes of communication, social exchange, and status attainment among beggars. The case study presents a possible alternative to sociological analyses of beggary as 'deviant activity' by drawing upon the constructs of social-world perspective and symbolic types
Domesticating Disney: Onstage Strategies of Adaptation in Tokyo Disneyland
The Mask of Dementia: Images of ‘Demented Residents’ in a Nursing Ward
A description of the social construction of dementia among elderly residents of a nursing ward is offered, based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an Israeli geriatric centre. This account focuses on the construction of positive social identities and the ascription of roles for residents labelled as ‘demented’. The findings illustrate the split between personal and social identity in dementia. The applicability of conventional socio-psycholo…
Genomic uncertainty and genetic counsellors' professional authority
Genomic tests regularly produce Variants of Uncertain Significance (VUS), mutations of which currently little is known but may turn out to be disease-causing. The communication of such variants in the United States is typically delegated to genetic counsellors. Based on in-depth interviews, we examined this communication as an indicator of the genetic counsellor's professional status: did they take a subordinate position by reporting out the resu…
Upright Generations of the Future: Tradition and Medicalization in Community Genetics
This article examines the responses of an Arab Bedouin minority group in Israel to a genetic counseling program for spouse selection. While health professionals designed the program to fit local norms such as consanguinity, matchmaking, and the Muslim ban on abortion, for the Bedouin, it also meant the medicalization of marriage arrangements and family planning. The ethnography focuses on the negotiated order that was developed around genetic tes…
America' Meets 'Japan: A Journey for Real between Two Imaginaries
A Symbolic Interactionist User's Guide to the Answering Machine: 22 Reflections on Vocal Encounters in an Emerging Social World
This article offers a sociological analysis of a new communication technology-the answering machine. A general semiotic model of 'machine talk' is suggested and connected, through the social world perspective, to forms of sociability that involve the fragmentation of time and space. The symbolic meaning given to the answering machine in literature, television, the cinema, and everyday language, as well as its use at home, are examined. Drawing on…
Unmet communication needs and moral work in the disposition decision concerning surplus frozen embryos: The perspectives of IVF users
Prediction and explainability in AI: Striking a new balance
The debate regarding prediction and explainability in artificial intelligence (AI) centers around the trade-off between achieving high-performance accurate models and the ability to understand and interpret the decisionmaking process of those models. In recent years, this debate has gained significant attention due to the increasing adoption of AI systems in various domains, including healthcare, finance, and criminal justice. While prediction an…
High risk, mixed reward: Making genetic test results actionable in cardiology
Ambiguous professionalism: Managing efficiency and service quality in an Israeli call centre
This case study examines the management of frontline employees in an Israeli call centre by focusing on the organisational rhetoric of ‘professionalism’ and the implementation of integrative human resource practices (debriefing, covert call monitoring, information and technology software, and a monthly bonus). This culture is critically explored as a ceremonial facade that covers the conventional quantity/quality tension
The authorized self: How middle age defines old age in the postmodern
A Symbolic Interactionist User's Guide to the Answering Machine: 22 Reflections on Vocal Encounters in an Emerging Social World
This article offers a sociological analysis of a new communication technology-the answering machine. A general semiotic model of 'machine talk' is suggested and connected, through the social world perspective, to forms of sociability that involve the fragmentation of time and space. The symbolic meaning given to the answering machine in literature, television, the cinema, and everyday language, as well as its use at home, are examined. Drawing on…
Rituals of Exchange in the Social World of Israeli Beggars: An Exploratory Study
Based on a fieldwork in a central bus station in Israel, this study offers a novel consideration of the symbolic interactions underlying processes of communication, social exchange, and status attainment among beggars. The case study presents a possible alternative to sociological analyses of beggary as 'deviant activity' by drawing upon the constructs of social-world perspective and symbolic types
Life Stories, Status, and Symbolic Typing: Exploring Beggars As an Interpretive Community
Based on fieldwork in a central bus station in Israel, this article focuses on the theme of life stories as an analytical venue into the social world of beggars. Beggars were found to have three statuses, or symbolic types: the handicapped, the prostitute, and the mad. The ethnography describes the interplay between the status and life stories of beggars, and analyzes how life stories are changed vis-a-vis a beggar's change of status. (Sociology,…
The Mask of Dementia: Images of ‘Demented Residents’ in a Nursing Ward
A description of the social construction of dementia among elderly residents of a nursing ward is offered, based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an Israeli geriatric centre. This account focuses on the construction of positive social identities and the ascription of roles for residents labelled as ‘demented’. The findings illustrate the split between personal and social identity in dementia. The applicability of conventional socio-psycholo…
America' Meets 'Japan: A Journey for Real between Two Imaginaries
The authorized self: How middle age defines old age in the postmodern
The Theme Park Boom: Remaking the World in Japan
Traveling Theories: Aboard the Black Ship
Harvard East Asian Monographs
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Organizational Culture and Organizational Critique
The Exotic and the Familiar
America in Tokyo: The Remaking of Disneyland in Japan
Working for TDL
Receptions of TDL-Disney
The hybridization of organizational culture in tokyo disneyland
Tokyo Disneyland (TDL), a licensed version of the American theme park which was re-made in Japan, is a unique cultural, organizational and consumerist junction where “Japan” meets “America.” Offering an ethnography of this meeting, I focus here on the appropriation of the “Disney Way” into TDL's socialization practices of hiring and training. TDL's organizational culture is divided between an American influence that relates to part-timers and a J…
Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland
Domesticating Disney: Onstage Strategies of Adaptation in Tokyo Disneyland
The Orient Strikes Back: A Global View of Cultural Display
The Orient Strikes Back: A Global View of Cultural Display. Joy Hendry Oxford: Berg, 2000. vii + 257 pp., figures, plates, bibliography, index
Emotions at Work: Normative Control, Organizations, and Culture in Japan and America
Emotions at Work: Normative Control, Organizations, and Culture in Japan and America
Our work life is filled with emotions. How we feel on the job, what we say we feel, and what feelings we display - all these are important aspects of organizational behavior and workplace culture. Rather than focusing on the psychology of personal emotions at work, however, this study concentrates on emotions as role requirements, on workplace emotions that combine the private with the public, the personal with the social, and the authentic with …
Aysha: Genetics Education and Community Engagement in a Consanguineous Arab-Bedouin Population in Israel
I examine the piloting of an educational tool - an Arabic-speaking documentary film entitled `Aysha' - in a Bedouin community in Israel, where consanguinity increases the prevalence of genetic diseases. Textual analysis of the film's changing script versions demonstrates how the dilemma of modern biomedical goals and local Bedouin tradition was reconciled in the film's narrative. Focus groups conducted with 61 teachers and 40 Bedouin pupils illus…
Important to test, important to support: Attitudes toward disability rights and prenatal diagnosis among leaders of support groups for genetic disorders in Israel
Upright Generations of the Future: Tradition and Medicalization in Community Genetics
This article examines the responses of an Arab Bedouin minority group in Israel to a genetic counseling program for spouse selection. While health professionals designed the program to fit local norms such as consanguinity, matchmaking, and the Muslim ban on abortion, for the Bedouin, it also meant the medicalization of marriage arrangements and family planning. The ethnography focuses on the negotiated order that was developed around genetic tes…
Perceptions of Cousin Marriage Among Young Bedouin Adults in Israel
Attitudes of young Bedouin adults (26 men and 23 women) in Israel towards cousin marriage, a traditional marriage pattern in the Bedouin society, were investigated. A Bedouin clan (population 3,400) with a high rate of cousin marriage and consanguinity was targeted for this study. Thirty-seven percent of the respondents expressed unconditional positive attitudes towards cousin marriage, while 22% said that this form of mate selection is inevitabl…
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