Eyal Katvan

katvan[at]biu.013.net.il

Eyal Katvan received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University, where he produced his thesis titled: “Compulsory Examinations and Their Connection to the Oppression of Women”.  He was a post-doctoral student at the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate at the Interdisciplinary Program for Science, Technology & Society at Bar-Ilan University (his thesis titled: “The Medical, Physical and Mental Examinations of Jewish Immigrants to Eretz-Israel 1919-1939”).  Eyal’s academic interests lie in the fields of bioethics, law & medicine, legal history and the history of medicine; He specializes in the topics of “Medical, Physical and Mental Examinations,” as well as “Women's Legal History" (especially "Women's Entrance into and Integration within the Legal and Medical Professions in Eretz-Israel and in Israel") and  The History of Law & Medicine. Eyal has published scholarly articles addressing these issues in academic journals; participated in numerous conferences in Israel and abroad; and received several academic awards and honors.  He is a member of the Israeli Bar since May 1998; Eyal also served as a Country Representative at The International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, (FAB) as well as a visiting scholar at the Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.; The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute on Jewish Women at Brandeis University; and the Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands; He is a member of the Ethics Committee and of the Helsinki Committee at Rabin Medical Center.