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Post-Doc, Sociology and Anthropology
Post Doctoral Fellow
About
Sky Gross is a lecturer in medical ethics and humanities at the Tel-Aviv University School of Medicine and of bioethics and society at the Biotechnology department of the School of Engineers. As a medical anthropologist, Sky's research foci and background include several lanes, among which are subjects of prenatal testing in the ultraorthodox Jewish community, social microdynamics in postnatal diagnosis of Down syndrome, inclusion of complementary medicine in the delivery room, and epistemological and symbolic boundaries between biomedical and complementary practitioners in the hospital setting.
In her more recent work she considers issues associated with both philosophical and anthropological understandings of the brain and its relation to conceptualisations of the 'mind'. With this intention, she uses historical analysis to approach the ethical debate surrounding the practice of frontal lobotomy, and a cultural reading of the scientific and popular discourses on 'mirror neurons'. In her latest published paper, she brings an extensive fieldwork in a neuro-oncology clinic to shed light on complex expert and lay constructions of brain tumors as objects for diagnosis.
She is now working on two main projects namely, the cultural correlates of neuroanatomical research and brain localisation (or 'how is culture mapped onto the brain'); and, based on participant observation in brain surgeries, the place of the 'mind' in the operating room.
Sky is the mother of two wonderful children, Oz and Micky.
Among her publications:
Gross, Sky E. (2010): “‘The Alien Baby’: Risk, Blame and Prenatal Indeterminacy”. Health Risk and Society, 12(1). 21-31
Gross, Sky E. (2009): "Experts and ‘knowledge that counts’: A study into the world of brain cancer diagnosis". Social Science and Medicine 69(12), 1819-1826
Shuval, Judith T. and Gross, Sky E. (2008): "Feminism in the Delivery Room: Midwives Practicing Alternative Healthcare". Journal of Complementary Health Research, 13(1), 46-62.
Gross, Sky E.and Shuval, Judith T. (2008): "On Knowing and Believing: Prenatal Genetic Testing and Resistance to Risk Medicine". Health Risk and Society 10(6), 1-16.
Gross, Sky E. and Benavot, Aaron (2007): “Realising EU-topia: Insiders' Views on an Emerging EU Research Community”. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 20(3), 279-294.
Shuval, Judith T. and Gross, Sky E. (2006): “Nurses and Midwives in Alternative Healthcare: Comparative Processes of Boundary Re-configuration”. In: Tovey, P. and Adams, J. (eds.): Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Nursing and Midwifery: Towards a Critical Social Science. Routledge Publishers.
Mizrachi, Nissim, Shuval, Judith T. and Gross, Sky E. (2005): “Boundary at Work: Alternative Medicine in Biomedical Settings”, Sociology of Health and Illness. 27(1), 20-43.
