Gaby Admon-Rick

gaby_rick[at]hotmail.com

Personal Details                                         

Gaby Admon-Rick

e-mail: gaby_rick@hotmail.com

Married + 2 children

Academic

Doctoral Student in Science, Technology and Society, 2007-  , Bar-Ilan University.

MA, 2005, Cohen Institute for History and Philosophy of Science, Tel Aviv University

BA, 1995, Psychology and History, Jerusalem Hebrew Univesity.

MA Thesis Topic

 “Childbirth, Social Surveillance and the Female Body: The Medicalization of Childbirth  during the British Mandate Period 1918-1948”.

Research Interests

Power- Knowledge  relations within institutions.

Social construction of the Body.

Public Health and mediclization of the private sphere.

Academic Presentations

Haddassah Tel Aviv Maternity Ward 1921-1948. Paper presented at the Annual conference of the History and Philosophy of Science Society, Van Leer Institute, 2004

2007- Childbirth, Social Surveillance and the Female Body: The Medicalization of Childbirth - Palestine 1918-1948. Birth: The Cultural Politics of Reproduction, Lancaster University, Post Graduate Forum.