Göttingen Centre for Genderstudies (GCG)

Dr. Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty

Beruflicher Werdegang

Seit 02/2018
Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship
University Medical Center Göttingen, Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
Title of research project: TIMEGG: TIMING FERTILITY- A Comparative Analysis of Time Constructions and the Social Practice of Egg-Freezing in Germany and Israel. The Marie Skłodowska -Curie Individual Fellowship (IF) of the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [agreement No. 749889]

08/2016 – 01/2018
Minverva Post-Doctoral Fellowship
University Medical Center Göttingen, Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
Title of research project: The construction of time, timing and planning – a comparative case study of the social practice of egg freezing in Germany and Israel. The Minerva Stiftung Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

2015 – 2016
Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Lower Saxony - Israel Research Projects: Organized Patient Participation in Health Care: Collective Advocacy, Representation and Autonomy in Socio-Ethical Perspective. PIs: Prof. Aviad E. Raz and Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz

2012 – 2016
Adjunct Lecturer: Sapir Academic College, Department of Human Resource Management

2008 – 2009 & 2010 – 2015
Adjunct Lecturer: Achva Academic College, the program of Sociology and Anthropology and the program of Behavioral Sciences

2007 – 2014
Ph.D.: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Advisors: Prof. Aviad E. Raz and Prof. Yael Hashiloni-Dolev
Title: The influence of new medical technologies on perceptions of the “fetus” and “parenthood” among Israeli parents. Maternal leaves during doctoral period: March 2008- September 2008; May 2013- October 2013.

2005 – 2007
M.A.: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Sociology of Organizations (magna cum laude)
Advisor: Prof. Aviad E. Raz
Title: Attitudes towards ambivalence, eugenics and parental responsibility in abortion committees’ deliberations regarding selective abortion following mild or likely embryopathy

2001 – 2004
B.A.: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Behavioral Sciences (summa cum laude)

Auszeichnungen

2/2018-9/2019
The Marie Skłodowska –Curie Individual Fellowship (IF) of the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [agreement No. 749889

08/2016 – 01/2018
The Minerva Stiftung Post-Doctoral Fellowship for outstanding German/Israeli post- doctoral researchers (Duration of Fellowship: 18 months)

2007 – 2011
The Negev fellowship for Outstanding Doctoral Students

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Allgemein
  • Cross-cultural bioethics

  • Social, cultural and ethical issues related to selective and reproductive technologies

  • The moral standing of the fetus

  • Personhood

  • Parenthood

  • Responsibility

  • Temporality

  • Lay moralities

  • (Collective) Representation in Pos


    • Im Bereich Gender
  • Gendered Temporalities in the context of reproduction and reproductive medicine

  • The conncetion between time, reproduction, labor and gender


    • Aktuelles Forschungsprojekt

    TIMEGG: TIMING FERTILITY - A Comparative Analysis of Time Constructions and the Social Practice of Egg-Freezing in Germany and Israel.
    PI: Dr. Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty. Suprevisor: Prof. Dr. Silke Shicktanz.
    Funding: The Marie Skłodowska -Curie Individual Fellowship (IF) of the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [agreement No. 749889]; and the Minerva Stiftung Post-Doctoral Fellowship

    Forschungsprojekte

    Organized Patient Participation in Health Care: Collective Advocacy, Representation and Autonomy in Socio-Ethical Perspective
  • Research coordinator, Lower Saxony - Israel Research Projects

  • Principal investigators: Prof. Aviad E. Raz (BGU) and Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz (UMG)

  • Laufzeit: 2015 - 2018


    • Cross-cultural ethics of health and responsibility: Expert and lay perspectives regarding bioethical dilemmas in Germany and Israel
  • Research assistant, GIF (The German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development) research project

  • Principal investigators: Prof. Aviad E. Raz (BGU) and Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz (UMG)

  • Laufzeit: 2010 - 2012


    • Veröffentlichungen

    Refereed articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals
  • Rimon-Zarfaty, N. and Schweda, M. (2019). Biological clocks, biographical schedules and generational cycles: Temporality in the ethics of assisted reproduction. Bioethica Forum, 11(4): 133-141.

  • Schicktanz, S., Rimon-Zarfaty, N., Raz, A. and Jongsma, K. (2018). Patient representation and advocacy for Alzheimer disease in Germany and Israel. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-018-9871-8

  • Jongsma, K., Rimon-Zarfaty, N., Raz, A. and Schicktanz, S. (2018). One for all, all for one? Collective representation in healthcare policy. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-018-9870-9.

  • Raz, A., Jongsma, K., Rimon-Zarfaty, N., Spaeth, E., Bar-Nadav, B., Vaintropov, E. and Schicktanz, S. (2018). Representing autism: Challenges of collective representation in German and Israeli associations for and of autistic people. Social Science & Medicine, 200: 65-72.

  • Inthorn, J., Schicktanz, S., Rimon-Zarfaty, N. & Raz, A. (2015). “What the patient wants”: Lay attitudes towards end-of-life decisions in Germany and Israel. Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy, 18(3): 329-340.

  • Mordhorst-Mayer, M., Rimon-Zarfaty, N., & Schweda, M. (2013). “Perspectivism” in the Halakhic debate on abortion between Moshe Feinstein and Eliezer Waldenberg: Relations between Jewish medical ethics and socio-cultural contexts. Women in Judaism, 10(2), 1-55.

  • Rimon-Zarfaty, N., & Jotkowitz, A. (2012). The Israeli abortion committees’ process of decision making: An ethical analysis. Journal of Medical Ethics, 38(1): 26-30.

  • Rimon-Zarfaty, N., Raz, A., & Hashiloni-Dolev, Y. (2011). When does a fetus become a person? An Israeli viewpoint. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Healthcare, 37(4), 216-224.


    • Chapters in collective volumes
  • Rimon-Zarfaty, N. (2018). Parochial Altruism – Insights form a religion sensitive analysis of the Israeli surrogacy and egg-donation legislations. In: S. Mitra, T. Patel, & S. Schicktanz (Eds.), Cross-Cultural Comparisons on Surrogacy and Egg Donation: Interdisciplinary perspectives from India, Germany and Israel (pp. 371-393). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Raz, A., Rimon-Zarfaty, N., Inthorn, J., & Schicktanz, S. (2014). Making responsible life plans: Attitudes towards the use of genetic testing for late-onset diseases. In G. Werner-Felmayer, S. Schicktanz, & B. Prainsack (Eds.), Genetics as social practice: Transdisciplinary views on science and culture (pp. 181-198). London, UK: Ashgate.

  • Rimon-Zarfaty, N., & Raz, A. (2010). Abortion committees as agents of eugenics: Medical and public views on selective abortion following mild or likely fetal pathology. In D. Birenbaum-Carmeli & Y. Carmeli (Eds.), Kin, gene, community: Reproductive technology among Jewish Israelis (pp. 202-225). Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books.


    • Mitgliedschaften

    Seit 2018
    The International Sociological Association (ISA)

    Seit 2018
    The European Society for Health and Medical Sociology (ESHMS)

    Seit 2017
    The Göttingen Centre for Gender Research (GCG)- Göttingen University

    Seit 2014 - 2016
    "Bio-Israel" research group- The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel Aviv University