Sibille Merz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 92713 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sibille Merz |
| PRENOMES | Sibille |
| SOBRENOME | Merz |
| ASSINATURA | MERZ S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg Theodor Fontane |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9967-6462 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 314 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Negotiating responsibility
Background Research on everyday racism in healthcare remains limited, particularly in Germany. This study examines how healthcare professionals perceive their own conduct toward racialized healthcare users and explores the interpretive frameworks that shape these perceptions. By focusing on the everyday concepts that guide clinical encounters, the analysis highlights how racism is reproduced within healthcare interactions and offers insight into …
What can we learn from an intersectionality-informed description of study participants? Results from the German National Cohort
Our results showed that heterogeneity within social categories can be revealed by applying the concept of intersectionality when comparing study participants with an external population. This way, an intersectionality-informed approach contributes to describing social complexity among study participants more precisely. Furthermore, results can be used to reduce participation barriers in a more targeted way
Doctors do not know about Cystic Fibrosis
Market making and the production of nurses for export
BACKGROUND: High-income countries increasingly look to the international recruitment of health workers to address domestic shortages, especially from low-income and middle-income countries. We adapt conceptual frameworks from migration studies to examine the networked and commercialised nature of the Indian market for nurse migration to the UK. METHODS: We draw on data from 27 expert interviews conducted with migration intermediaries, healthcare …
Crafting Ethnographic Relationships During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany Using Voice-Based Technologies
Drawing on a two-year ethnography of care practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, we discuss the affordances of voice-based technologies (smartphones, basic mobile phones, and landline telephones) in collecting ethnographic data and crafting relationships with participants. We illustrate how such technologies allowed us to move with participants, eased data collection through the social expectations around their use, and reoriented our…
Not in it for huge profits but because it's right
While the growth of global markets in health-related services may have significant consequences for healthcare provisioning and training, it has received relatively little attention from the social sciences. This article examines UK-India, and specifically England-India, exports in health worker education and training as one such global market, drawing on sociological scholarship on moral economies to understand how trading in this field is const…
Investigating people’s attitudes towards participating in longitudinal health research
Our findings suggest that for participants, health research constitutes a site of distinction in the sense of making a difference and being distinct or distinguishable, whereas non-participants inhabited an orientation towards science that reflected their subjective marginalisation through science. No clear relationship can thereby be presumed between social location and a particular attitude towards study participation; rather, such attitudes tr…
Social health
The social sciences have long shown that health is not born of pure biology, empirically (re)centred the social and material causes of disease, and affirmed the subjective experiences of disease. Disputed both in popular and academic discourses, social health has variously attempted to stress the social aspects of health. Existing conceptions remain analytically limited as they are predominantly used as descriptors for populational health. This a…
Shade trees for the next generation’
Epidemiological cohort studies are a central research design in public health which appeal to, and can reinforce, specific ideas of the nation, sociality and the 'good' citizen. The concept of publics, the sociology of expectations and a co-productionist framework provide the theoretical frame to investigate how popular representations of two cohort studies, German National Cohort and UK Biobank, attempt to enrol a concerned public. By constructi…
Classification tree analysis for an intersectionality-informed identification of population groups with non-daily vegetable intake
Public health monitoring and reporting with an intersectionality-informed and gender-equitable perspective might benefit from an integration of further sex/gender related aspects into quantitative analyses in order to detect population subgroups most affected by non-DVI
Global Trials, Local Bodies
Global clinical trials depend on a range of standards in order for research results to be comparable. As standardization is more than a mere technical exercise, tensions can arise when things are not uniform. This paper uses empirical data from interviews with principal investigators as well as Clinical Research Organization and pharmaceutical industry representatives working in India's clinical trial industry to critically examine the ways India…
We All Have a Responsibility to Each Other’
In neoliberalism, human tissue has been targeted as a source for extracting surplus value. Commercial attention on ethnic and racial minorities has resulted in products and services specifically developed for them. Here, we focus on this by exploring two empirical examples: US pharmaceutical clinical trials and UK stem cell transplantation. Both use racial taxonomies to discern biological difference and draw conclusions about the economic potenti…
Questioning Racial Prescriptions
In Racial Prescriptions, Jonathan Xavier Inda offers a critical and timely analysis of the making of BiDil, the first (and only) drug that was marketed exclusively to African Americans. Sibille Merz speaks to him about the re-articulation of racial politics under neoliberalism, the legacies of scientific racism and the molecularization of biopolitics in the genomic age
Missionaries of the new era
This article explores the effects of the neoliberal development paradigm on the restructuring of social formations through the external funding and promotion of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Palestine, 1 and more precisely in the West Bank towns of Ramallah and al-Bireh; they are the 'missionaries of the new era'. 2 It argues that neoliberal rationality aims at transforming societies and subjectivities around the notion of enterprise a…
Race after technology. Abolitionist tools for the new Jim Code
If there is one positive consequence stemming from the election of Donald Trump to the White House, it is the surge of critical investigations examining the relationships between big tech and democ
Surrogate humanity
One need not be reminded that a core campaign promise by US-President Donald Trump was to bring back thousands of American working-class jobs, ostensibly “stolen” by predominantly Mexican and Chine
Race after technology. Abolitionist tools for the new Jim Code
If there is one positive consequence stemming from the election of Donald Trump to the White House, it is the surge of critical investigations examining the relationships between big tech and democ
Missionaries of the new era
This article explores the effects of the neoliberal development paradigm on the restructuring of social formations through the external funding and promotion of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Palestine, 1 and more precisely in the West Bank towns of Ramallah and al-Bireh; they are the 'missionaries of the new era'. 2 It argues that neoliberal rationality aims at transforming societies and subjectivities around the notion of enterprise a…
Surrogate humanity
One need not be reminded that a core campaign promise by US-President Donald Trump was to bring back thousands of American working-class jobs, ostensibly “stolen” by predominantly Mexican and Chine
We All Have a Responsibility to Each Other’
In neoliberalism, human tissue has been targeted as a source for extracting surplus value. Commercial attention on ethnic and racial minorities has resulted in products and services specifically developed for them. Here, we focus on this by exploring two empirical examples: US pharmaceutical clinical trials and UK stem cell transplantation. Both use racial taxonomies to discern biological difference and draw conclusions about the economic potenti…
Not in it for huge profits but because it's right
While the growth of global markets in health-related services may have significant consequences for healthcare provisioning and training, it has received relatively little attention from the social sciences. This article examines UK-India, and specifically England-India, exports in health worker education and training as one such global market, drawing on sociological scholarship on moral economies to understand how trading in this field is const…
Social health
The social sciences have long shown that health is not born of pure biology, empirically (re)centred the social and material causes of disease, and affirmed the subjective experiences of disease. Disputed both in popular and academic discourses, social health has variously attempted to stress the social aspects of health. Existing conceptions remain analytically limited as they are predominantly used as descriptors for populational health. This a…
Global Trials, Local Bodies
Global clinical trials depend on a range of standards in order for research results to be comparable. As standardization is more than a mere technical exercise, tensions can arise when things are not uniform. This paper uses empirical data from interviews with principal investigators as well as Clinical Research Organization and pharmaceutical industry representatives working in India's clinical trial industry to critically examine the ways India…
Missionaries of the new era
This article explores the effects of the neoliberal development paradigm on the restructuring of social formations through the external funding and promotion of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Palestine, 1 and more precisely in the West Bank towns of Ramallah and al-Bireh; they are the 'missionaries of the new era'. 2 It argues that neoliberal rationality aims at transforming societies and subjectivities around the notion of enterprise a…
Questioning Racial Prescriptions
In Racial Prescriptions, Jonathan Xavier Inda offers a critical and timely analysis of the making of BiDil, the first (and only) drug that was marketed exclusively to African Americans. Sibille Merz speaks to him about the re-articulation of racial politics under neoliberalism, the legacies of scientific racism and the molecularization of biopolitics in the genomic age
We All Have a Responsibility to Each Other’
In neoliberalism, human tissue has been targeted as a source for extracting surplus value. Commercial attention on ethnic and racial minorities has resulted in products and services specifically developed for them. Here, we focus on this by exploring two empirical examples: US pharmaceutical clinical trials and UK stem cell transplantation. Both use racial taxonomies to discern biological difference and draw conclusions about the economic potenti…
Classification tree analysis for an intersectionality-informed identification of population groups with non-daily vegetable intake
Public health monitoring and reporting with an intersectionality-informed and gender-equitable perspective might benefit from an integration of further sex/gender related aspects into quantitative analyses in order to detect population subgroups most affected by non-DVI
Global Trials, Local Bodies
Global clinical trials depend on a range of standards in order for research results to be comparable. As standardization is more than a mere technical exercise, tensions can arise when things are not uniform. This paper uses empirical data from interviews with principal investigators as well as Clinical Research Organization and pharmaceutical industry representatives working in India's clinical trial industry to critically examine the ways India…
Investigating people’s attitudes towards participating in longitudinal health research
Our findings suggest that for participants, health research constitutes a site of distinction in the sense of making a difference and being distinct or distinguishable, whereas non-participants inhabited an orientation towards science that reflected their subjective marginalisation through science. No clear relationship can thereby be presumed between social location and a particular attitude towards study participation; rather, such attitudes tr…
Social health
The social sciences have long shown that health is not born of pure biology, empirically (re)centred the social and material causes of disease, and affirmed the subjective experiences of disease. Disputed both in popular and academic discourses, social health has variously attempted to stress the social aspects of health. Existing conceptions remain analytically limited as they are predominantly used as descriptors for populational health. This a…
Shade trees for the next generation’
Epidemiological cohort studies are a central research design in public health which appeal to, and can reinforce, specific ideas of the nation, sociality and the 'good' citizen. The concept of publics, the sociology of expectations and a co-productionist framework provide the theoretical frame to investigate how popular representations of two cohort studies, German National Cohort and UK Biobank, attempt to enrol a concerned public. By constructi…
Market making and the production of nurses for export
BACKGROUND: High-income countries increasingly look to the international recruitment of health workers to address domestic shortages, especially from low-income and middle-income countries. We adapt conceptual frameworks from migration studies to examine the networked and commercialised nature of the Indian market for nurse migration to the UK. METHODS: We draw on data from 27 expert interviews conducted with migration intermediaries, healthcare …
Race after technology. Abolitionist tools for the new Jim Code
If there is one positive consequence stemming from the election of Donald Trump to the White House, it is the surge of critical investigations examining the relationships between big tech and democ
Surrogate humanity
One need not be reminded that a core campaign promise by US-President Donald Trump was to bring back thousands of American working-class jobs, ostensibly “stolen” by predominantly Mexican and Chine
Crafting Ethnographic Relationships During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany Using Voice-Based Technologies
Drawing on a two-year ethnography of care practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, we discuss the affordances of voice-based technologies (smartphones, basic mobile phones, and landline telephones) in collecting ethnographic data and crafting relationships with participants. We illustrate how such technologies allowed us to move with participants, eased data collection through the social expectations around their use, and reoriented our…
Not in it for huge profits but because it's right
While the growth of global markets in health-related services may have significant consequences for healthcare provisioning and training, it has received relatively little attention from the social sciences. This article examines UK-India, and specifically England-India, exports in health worker education and training as one such global market, drawing on sociological scholarship on moral economies to understand how trading in this field is const…
What can we learn from an intersectionality-informed description of study participants? Results from the German National Cohort
Our results showed that heterogeneity within social categories can be revealed by applying the concept of intersectionality when comparing study participants with an external population. This way, an intersectionality-informed approach contributes to describing social complexity among study participants more precisely. Furthermore, results can be used to reduce participation barriers in a more targeted way
Doctors do not know about Cystic Fibrosis
Negotiating responsibility
Background Research on everyday racism in healthcare remains limited, particularly in Germany. This study examines how healthcare professionals perceive their own conduct toward racialized healthcare users and explores the interpretive frameworks that shape these perceptions. By focusing on the everyday concepts that guide clinical encounters, the analysis highlights how racism is reproduced within healthcare interactions and offers insight into …
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