Published by Gabriela Irrazabal:

Sciences & Beliefs in reproductive medicine: trajectories, perspectives and articulations among ART experts and users in the biomedical field in Argentina

Summary: The project aims to study the relationship between science and religion in Argentina from the Assisted Reproduction Techniques (ARTs) field. To this end, we explore the perspectives, practices, and processes of articulation of reproductive medicine and religion, attending to the trajectories of two main actors involved, experts and users of ART in Argentina. The main research question we seek to answer is: How do religion and reproductive medicine articulate in the perspectives and practices of ART experts and users? Contributing to the debates that propose focusing on the science and religion articulation and actors’ perspectives, the project explores two points of view on the reproductive process: a) Experts in the ART field, including health professionals beyond medicine (ART practitioners, fertility specialists, bioethicists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers) and b) ARTs users on a diversity of treatments (artificial insemination, IVF, ICSI, ART treatment with egg and sperm donor). In both cases,

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Science and Catholicism: Perspectives and Circuits of Dialogue between Contemporary Europe and Argentina in Six Scientific Areas (Epistemology, Bioethics, Genetics, Reproductive Medicine, Embryology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience)

Summary: This project seeks to conduct a sociohistorical analysis of the relationships between science and religion in Roman Catholicism through the use of multiple case study analysis. In order to do this, we will explore the articulation among beliefs, scientific disciplines and theological perspectives by studying institutional spaces and the main trajectories1 of actors (both experts and believers) who promote and implement linkages between science and religion in specific cases at different points in time. The study will begin with a comparative analysis of cases from six scientific fields, in the framework of global and local religious-epistemic communities. Our analysis will thus include the configuration of the following scenarios: a) the Pontifical Academy for Life, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Borja Institute of Bioethics, the STICB (Seminari de Teologia i Ciencia or Barcelona’s Seminar for Theology and Science) as global institutional spaces with local influence (case 1) and b)

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