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Maria Kramer is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), specializing in the fields of medical sociology and science technology studies. She completed her PhD in Sociology at LSE in 2020, following an interdisciplinary MA in History and Sociology from Koç University in Istanbul. Her research expertise encompasses reproductive governance and the intersections of family-making and scientific knowledge production in Turkey, particularly in the realm of genomic healthcare. Her doctoral research explored the impact of reproductive genetic health services on forming 'healthy' families in Turkey, focusing on the conceptualization and management of genetic risks within the context of kin marriage. Through her work, she investigates how notions of 'healthy' reproduction inform health policies and practices surrounding kin marriage, alongside how couples engaged in kin marriage negotiate concepts of 'risky reproduction' within medicalized frameworks. Her ongoing project sheds light on the expansion of reproductive genetic health services, revealing new dynamics of (self)surveillance and (self)management in family-making at the molecular level, highlighting the complex interactions between medicine, national identities, and state governance in 21st century Turkey.
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