Mine and my students' areas of interest include the beginnings and ends of life, human reproduction and new reproductive technologies, cryopreservation, contraception, genetics, gender and medicine, bioethics, family studies and contemporary parenthood.
About Yael Hashilon-Dolev
Dr. Yael Hashiloni-Dolev
Yael Hashiloni-Dolev is a sociologist of health and illness. A former member of Israel’s National Bioethics Council (2013-20) and a previous co-president of the Israeli Society for the History, Philosophy & Sociology of Science (2018-21). Hashiloni-Dolev is a member of the Gender Equality Committee - Council for Higher Education Israel (2017-present).
Her areas of interest include the beginnings and ends of life, new reproductive technologies, cryopreservation, genetics, gender, bioethics, contemporary parenthood and genetics and Judaism.
She has authored three books: A Life (Un)Worthy of Living: Reproductive Genetics in Israel and Germany (Springer, 2007), The Fertility Revolution (Modan, 2013, in Hebrew), and New Reproductive Technologies: Social and Bio-Ethical Debates (Open University, in Hebrew). She published many articles on repro-genetics, sex selection, the moral status of the embryo, fertility awareness, posthumous reproduction, egg freezing and genes and Judaism.
She is also a co-editor of Boas, H., Hashiloni-Dolev, Y., Davidovitch, N., Filc D. and Lavi, S. (Eds). 2018. Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-Legal, Political and Empirical Analysis. Cambridge University Press
EDUCATION
1993 B.A., magna cum laude Social Work
Tel Aviv University, School of Social Work
1994 M.A. Film and Television Studies
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Thesis: “Transvestites in the Movies: The Monster, the Comic and the Prophet”
2005 Ph.D. Sociology and Anthropology
Tel Aviv University
Dissertation: “Looking for the Perfect Child: Fertility Control and Genetic Management in Israel and Germany”
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Undergraduate seminars:
At the Margins of Life and Death: Medical Technologies in Social Dispute
Reproductive Disruptions: New Reproductive Technologies and their dilemmas
Science, Technology and Society in Israel
Undergraduate and MA courses:
The Foundations of Sociology, (Introduction to Sociology)
Qualitative Research Methods
Social Aspects of Health, Gender and Fertility
Fertility, Childhood and Parenthood: A Socio-historical Point of View
Social Science and Medicine
Science, Technology and Society
Classical Sociology Theories