Univ.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Prainsack
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Prainsack
Professor for Comparative Policy Analysis
Head of Department (managing)
Member of the ethics committee in the fields of Social and Economic Sciences of the University of Vienna
Contact
Neues Institutsgebäude
Universitätsstr. 7/2nd floor
Room: B 208
1010 Vienna
T: +43-1-4277-494 23
F: +43-1-4277-949 4
E-Mail: barbara.prainsack@univie.ac.at
Homepages:
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barbara_Prainsack
http://kcl.academia.edu/BarbaraPrainsack
Social Media:
http://twitter.com/BPrainsack
Office hour
Please arrange via E-Mail
Teaching assistant: Elias Weiss, BA
Teaching
Courses: u:find
Research interests
Health policy; practices, institutions and politics of solidarity; political, social and ethical aspects of Personalised Medicine; data-rich practices in science and medicine; regulation of DNA technologies in medicine and forensics; comparative science & technology policy
Short biography
• Study of Political Science at the University of Vienna
• 2002: Visiting Doctoral Student at the Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
• 2004: Doctoral Thesis on “’Negotiating Life’: The Regulation of Embryonic Stem Cells Research and Human Cloning in Israel“ (Dissertation Award of the Austrian Political Science Association)
• 2005-2007: Postdoctoral Student at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna
• October 2005: Visiting Professor at the Institute of International Studies, Ramkamhaeng University, Bangkok
• Fall 2006: Guest Scientist at ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics, Cardiff University, Wales
• 2007: Senior Lecturer, then Associate Professor at the Center for Biomedicine & Society, King’s College London
• Summer semester 2010: Guest Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt
• September 2011 – Dezember 2012: Professor for Sociology and Politics of Life Sciences, Brunel University, London
• 2013-2017: Professor at the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King’s College London
National Ethics Councils, governmental and other advisory roles, scientific advisory board memberships
• Since 2009: Member of the Austrian Bioethics Commission
• 2009-2014: Representative of the United Kingdom in the Committee for Social Sciences, European Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST)
• Since 2011: Member of the British Royal Society of Arts
• 2011-2012: together with Aarno Palotie and Stephen Holgate: Leader of the „Forward Look“ on Personalised Medicine, European Science Foundation (ESF)
• 2015-2017: Member of the Ethics Commission of the UK National DNA Database (NDNAD), Home Office, UK
• 2016: Bellagio Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation
• Since 2017: Member, European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (advising the European Commission)
• Since 2017: Elected Foreign Member, Danish Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters
Selected Bibliography
A full list of publications is available here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barbara_Prainsack
Journal Articles
Find all articles here.
Books (selection)
- Barbara Prainsack. 2017. Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century. New York City: New York University Press.
- Reviews:
- Personalized Medicine Is the Postgenomic Condition, by Carolyn O. Neuhaus, Hastings Center Report, 26.05.2018, Volume 48, Issue 3
- Putting The Person in Personalized Medicine, by Consuelo H. Wilkins, Health Affairs, VOL. 37, NO. 5
- Boxed Warning, by Laura Hercher, Genome, 03.04.2018
- Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?, by Nadine Levin, Medical Anthropology Quarterly - International Journal for the Analysis of Health, 16.08.2018
- Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century, by Lauren Diamond-Brown, Social Forces, soz045, 14.05.2019
- B Prainsack. Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?, by Andrew Bartlett, Sociology of Health & Illness, 17.05.2019
- Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?, by Linda M. Blum, K. J. Surkan, Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 15.05.2019
- Personalized Medicine: Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?, by Jeremy Freese, American Journal of Sociology Volume 125 Number 1 (1.07.2019)
- Reviews:
- Barbara Prainsack, Alena Buyx. 2017. Solidarity in Biomedicine and Beyond. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Reviews:
- Solidarity in biomedicine and beyond, by Katherine Weatherford Darling, New Genetics and Society, 15.03.2018
- Barbara Prainsack and Aleny Buyx, Solidarity in Biomedicine and Beyond, by Mark Flear, Medical Law Review, 03.03.2018
- Book Review: Solidarity in Biomedicine and Beyond, by Edward S. Dove,
- SCRIPTed, VOL. 14, Issue 2, 12/2017
- Reviews:
- Scott Frickel, Mathieu Albert, and Barbara Prainsack (eds). 2016. Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory and Practice across Disciplines. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
- Barbara Prainsack and Alena Buyx. 2016. Das Solidaritätsprinzip. Ein Plädoyer für eine Renaissance in Medizin und Bioethik. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.
- Helena Machado, and Barbara Prainsack. 2012. Tracing Technologies: Prisoners’ Views in the Era of CSI. Abingdon: Routledge.