Dr. Ingrid Metzler
Biography
Ingrid Metzler is a Hertha-Firnberg fellow at the Department of Science and Technology Studies. She studied Political Science at the University of Rome, La Sapienza, the University of Innsbruck (in combination with history), and the University of Vienna, where she defended her doctoral dissertation on the politics of embryo research in Italy in 2013. She was a Marie Curie fellow at the University of York’s Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU) in 2005, and a visiting fellow and a post-doctoral research fellow at the Program on Science, Technology and Society at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2012 and 2013. She has collaborated in numerous research projects on the governance of biomedical technologies at the University of Vienna’s Life-Science Governance research platform. Together with Andrew Webster, she chaired a COST Action on „Bio-objects: matters at the intersection of society, politics and science.“
Research Focus
Ingrid’s research focuses on the biosciences and their entanglement with contemporary democracies. In her dissertation, she studied controversies on in vitro fertilization, human embryonic stem cell research, and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in Italy. In her post doctoral research, she has begun to explore controversies on PGD in Germany, comparing them with Italy. More recently she has also begun to explore the mutual stabilization of post-genomics and post-democracy. In doing so, she is also interested in reflections on what these transformations mean for social science research practices. In her current project on „Imaginaries of care“, she follows the emergence of the innovative technology of cffDNA testing in prenatal care in Austria, Germany, and Italy.
Selected Publications
Metzler, I., & Åm, H. (2022). How the governance of and through digital contact tracing technologies shapes geographies of power. Policy & Politics, 50(2), 181-198. doi.org/10.1332/030557321X16420096592965
Felt, U., Metzler, I., & Ferent, L-M. (2021, Nov). Societal Engagement with Biobanking - Values of and in Biobanking: First findings from interviews with professionals in the field of biobanking/biomedicine.
Matthews, K. R. W., Iltis, A. S., Marquez, N. G., Wagner, D. S., Robert, J. S., de Melo-Martín, I., Bigg, M., Franklin, S., Holm, S., Metzler, I., Molè, M. A., Taupitz, J., Testa, G., & Sugarman, J. (2021). Rethinking Human Embryo Research Policies. Hastings Center Report, 51(1), 47-51. doi.org/10.1002/hast.1215
Metzler, I. (2020). Imaginaries as infrastructures? The emergence of non-invasive prenatal testing in Austria. BioSocieties, 15(4), 601-626. doi.org/10.1057/s41292-019-00171-7
Jasanoff, S., & Metzler, I. (2020). Borderlands of Life: IVF Embryos and the Law in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany. Science, Technology & Human Values, 45(6), 1001-1037. doi.org/10.1177/0162243917753990
Hurlbut, B., Metzler, I., Marelli, L., & Jasanoff, S. (2020). Bioconstitutional Imaginaries and the Comparative Politics of Genetic Self-knowledge. Science, Technology & Human Values, 45(6), 1087-1118. doi.org/10.1177/0162243920921246
Metzler, I., & Pichelstorfer, A. (2019). Embryonic Silences: Human Life Between Biomedicine, Religion, and State Authorities in Austria. In M. Weiberg-Salzmann, & W. Ulrich (Eds.), Religion and Biopolitics (pp. 73-96). Springer.
Paul, K. T. (Author), & Metzler, I. (Author). (2018). Wie sehr darf der Staat in die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung eingreifen?. Web publication, STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Metzler, I., & Just, P. (2018). “Think positively”: Parkinson’s disease, biomedicine, and hope in contemporary Germany. Health: an interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health, illness and medicine, 22(5), 483-499. doi.org/10.1177/1363459317715774
Metzler, I. (2016). Human life between biology and law in Germany. In S. Prozorov, & S. Rentea (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Biopolitics (pp. 295-312). Routledge.
Metzler, I., Parolin, L. L., & Schuster, A. (2013). ‘He(x)ternologous ‘ Fertilization. The Italian ART Law and its paradoxes. Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 3(2), 125-146.
Metzler, I., & Hansen, J. (2012). Governing bio-objects: A research agenda. Croatian Medical Journal, 53(1), 80-82. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3284184/pdf/CroatMedJ_53_0080.pdf
Metzler, I. (2012). M.G. Weiß (ed) (2009) Bios und Zoë. Die menschliche Natur im Zeitalter ihrer technischen Reproduzierbarkeit. Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 3(1), 128-131. www.tecnoscienza.net/index.php/tsj/article/view/97/71
Metzler, I. (2012). On why states still matter: In vitro fertilization embryos between laboratories and state authorities in Italy. In Bio-objects: Life in the 21st Century (pp. 151-170). Ashgate.
Metzler, I. (2011). Between Church and State: Embryos, Stem Cells and Citizens in Italian Politics. In Reframing Rights: Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age (pp. 105-124). MIT Press.
Metzler, I., & Webster, A. (2011). Bio-objects and their Boundaries: Governing Matters at the Intersection of Society, Politics, and Science. Croatian Medical Journal, 52(5), 648-650.
Metzler, I. (2010). Biomarkers and their consequences for the biomedical profession: a social science perspective. Personalized Medicine, 7(4), 407-420. doi.org/10.2217/pme.10.41
Metzler, I., & Bang, H. (2010). Maarten A. Hajer: Authoritative governance: policy-making in the age of mediatization. Critical Policy Studies, 4(1), 102-107. www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a921648585~frm=abslink
Metzler, I., & Bang, H. (2010). Svea Luise Hermann: Policy debates on reprogenetics. The problematisation of new research in Great Britain and Germany. Critical Policy Studies, 4(1), 102-107. www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a921648585~frm=abslink