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Dr. Anna Nelson is a socio-legal researcher at the University of Manchester, specializing in issues of consent, choice, and care in childbirth. Her work bridges healthcare law, gender studies, and ethics, with particular focus on reproductive technologies and maternity care. She has teaching experience in criminal law and health law & ethics, and has supervised LLM dissertations.
Her research explores gendered experiences in healthcare systems, examining how medical authority shapes patient autonomy during childbirth. Current projects investigate digital harms in FemTech surveillance and ethical frameworks for emerging reproductive technologies like ectogestation.
Publications demonstrate consistent focus on medical jurisprudence, with recent work examining legal definitions of health, barriers to person-centered care, and GDPR implications for gender-specific technologies. Her scholarship combines empirical analysis with normative frameworks to address power imbalances in healthcare settings.
She received the prestigious President's Doctoral Scholar Award in 2019. Current research projects include ConnecteDNA and gendered digital harms associated with FemTech surveillance.
