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Veronika Siegl is a social anthropologist and gender researcher affiliated with the University of Vienna's Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, part of the Faculty of Social Sciences. She serves as Research Coordination for the Health in Society program and contributes to the Research Group Health Matters. Her work focuses on ethics, inequality, and self-determination in reproductive medicine, particularly selective abortion and surrogacy practices in Europe and Eastern Europe. She holds a PhD from the University of Bern (2018), with a thesis on commercial surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine, leading to her monograph Intimate Strangers (Cornell UP, 2023).
Her research explores 'ethical labor' in contested reproductive practices, analyzing socio-cultural understandings of disability, legal frameworks, and affective dimensions. Recent projects examine disability-selective abortion in Austria and Denmark, comparing medico-legal authorization processes. She also investigates the impact of war on surrogacy markets and transnational reproductive mobility. Her work bridges medical anthropology, feminist theory, and intersectional analysis.
Publications span journals like Medical Anthropology and Curare, with contributions to edited volumes on hope, gender, and reproduction. She collaborates internationally, including with institutions like Switzerland’s Federal Office of Public Health. Her interdisciplinary approach integrates qualitative methods with ethical and policy considerations, addressing global and local dimensions of reproductive health.
