About
Aviad Raz is Professor of medical and organizational sociology and Chairperson of the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, as well as Director of Eitan Program for fostering inter-Disciplinary Excellence, all at BGU. His work focuses on the socio-ethical implications of disruptive medical technologies and their regulation, especially regarding genomics, AI in medicine, and patient organizations. Raz has more than 20 years of expertise in qualitative methodology, particularly focus groups, as well as mixed methods. He has published 8 academic books and over 90 peer-reviewed academic articles and chapters on medical sociology, health governance and public understandings of science, including a monograph on ?Community Genetics and Genetic Alliances: Eugenics, Carrier Testing, and Networks of Risk? (2009, Routledge) and, co-authored with Silke Schicktanz, one of the leading works on socio-ethical analysis: ?Comparative Empirical Bioethics? (2016, Springer). Raz was a visiting Professor at the Dept. of Sociology, University of California, San Diego, and a visiting scholar at Kyoto U., SciencesPo and the University of Leuven. He was PI in several international research projects on public and patient attitudes toward innovative/disruptive medical technologies, funded by competitive agencies including the DFG, GIF, BSF, and ISF.
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Publications
Selected publications
(a) Books
1. Werner-Felmayer, G., Minari, J., Schicktanz, S., Raz, A., Sharon, T., eds. (2023)
Data-intensive medicine and healthcare: Ethical and social implications in
the era of artificial intelligence and automated decision making.
Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/978-2-8325-3534-9
2. Raz, A. and S. Schicktanz (2016). Comparative Empirical Bioethics: Dilemmas of Genetic Testing and Euthanasia in Israel and Germany. Berlin: Springer
3. Alison Shaw and Aviad Raz (Eds) (2015). Cousin marriages: between tradition, genetic risk and cultural change. Oxford: Berghahn Books
4. Raz, A. (2009). Community Genetics and Genetic Alliances: Eugenics, Carrier Testing, and Networks of Risk. NY and London: Routledge, 194 pp
5. Raz, A. (2005). The Gene and the Genie: Tradition, Medicalization, and Genetic Counseling in a Bedouin Community. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology Series. 168 pp.
6. Raz, A. (2004). Organizational Culture. The Open University Press (Hebrew), 184 pp.
7. Raz, Aviad (2002). Emotions at Work: Normative Control, Culture and Organizations. Harvard University Press (Asia Center). 275 pp.
8. Raz, Aviad (1999). Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland. Harvard University Press (The Council on East Asian Studies). 261 pp.
Refereed articles in scientific journals
1. Raz, A., Halsband, A., Langner, R. et al. (2025). The new frontier in assisted reproduction. EMBO Rep https://doi.org/10.1038/s44319-025-00668-2. IF=7.5, Q1
2. Nov-Klaiman, T., Raz, A., & Horn, R. (2025). Expanded Prenatal Genomic Testing: Reproductive Autonomy Can Go in More than One Way. The American Journal of Bioethics, 25(12), 75?76. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2025.257067. IF=14.7, Q1
3. Raz A, Inbar Y, Paz Z, Hofman B, Itzhakov Z, Weinstein O (2025). Use First, Trust Later? Exploring How Health Care Providers View the Gaps Between AI?s Regulation and Its Implementation. JMIR Form Res 9:e74038 https://formative.jmir.org/2025/1/e74038 DOI: 10.2196/74038. Q2, IF=2
4. Raz, A., Lifshitz-Milwidsky, L. B., & Inbar, Y. (2025). "Sailing the ship while building it": Sandbox Regulation and the Political Economy of Israeli Healthcare AI Innovation. SSM-Qualitative Research in Health, 100642. IF=2.5, Q1
5. Timmermans, Stefan, Will Schupmann, Rebecca Kaufman, and Aviad Raz. (2025). ?Coping With the Spectre of Cardiac Mortality: The Role of Genetic Testing,? Sociology of Health & Illness: e70107. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.70107. Q1, IF= 2.7
6. Shkedi-Rafid, S., Raz, A., Sabatello, M. et al. (2025). Should recipient parents have access to gamete donors? raw genomic data? Clinical, legal, and ethical considerations. J Assist Reprod Genet. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10815-025-03666-4. Q1, IF= 2.7
7. Raz A, Inbar Y, Avnoon N, Bela Lifshitz-Milwidsky L, Hofman B, Honig A and Paz Z (2025) Who moved my scan? Early adopter experiences with pre- and post-market healthcare AI regulation challenges. Front. Med. 12:1651934. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1651934. Q1, IF= 3.3
8. Tadafumi Kubota, A. Raz, Jusaku Minari. (2025) Invigorating ELSI: reflexive approaches to enhance policy development. Trends in Genetics https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2025.05.006. Q1, IF=16.3
9. Nov-Klaiman T, Horn R, Raz A. (2025) More of the same? Israel's expanded carrier screening for cystic fibrosis. Eur J Hum Genet. doi: 10.1038/s41431-025-01851-8. Q1, IF=4.8
10. Weiss, E., Raz, A., Nov Klaiman, T., Hashiloni-Dolev, Y. (2025). ""It has to somehow permeate to the public": Expert Views on the solidaristic potential of Israel's National Genomic Biobank Initiative." Social Theory & Health 23:13. Q2, IF=2.2
11. Raz, A. (2024). Negotiating ?severity? in plain sight. Eur J Hum Genet.
12. Andrusier, O. Raz, A., Minari, J. (2024). Cultivating awareness of donation in cutting-edge allogenic cell therapies, Cell Stem Cell, 31, 7 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2024.06.002
13. Kaufman, R., W. Schupmann, S. Timmermans, A Raz (2024). High risk, mixed reward: Making genetic test results actionable in cardiology, Social Science & Medicine, 354, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117049.
