Mgr. Ema Hrešanová, Ph.D.

Monographs

• Šmídová O., Tollarová B., Čada K., Keprt B., Hrešanová E., Němcová Guhlová L., & Kontrová V. (2017). Po stopách moci v nemoci. O morálce, moci a komunikaci v českém zdravotnictví. Sociologické nakladatelství, SLON.

Chapters in monographs

• Hrešanová E. (2016). Pôrod z pohľadu kultúrnej antropológie. Ženy - matky - telá II : systémové aspekty porušovania ĺudských práv žien pri pôrodnej starostlivosti v zdravotníckých zariadeniach na Slovensku (pp. 27-45).
• Hrešanová E. (2017). "Případ zatčené rodičky a morální principy českého porodnictví". Po stopách moci v nemoci. O morálce, moci a komunikaci v českém zdravotnictví (pp. 155-172).
• Mouralová M., Hrešanová E., & Hejzlarová E. (2023). Sociální média jako zdroj dat pro veřejněpolitický výzkum. Fantastická data ve veřejné politice a jak je využít (pp. 292-320).

Articles

• Hrešanová E. (2018). The Island of Alternatives: Power, Medical Science, and "Gentle Birthing" in Socialist Czechoslovakia. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 73(1), 73-95. UT-WOS link
• Hrešanová E. (2018). Blue Children and All Shades of Responsibility. Anthropology News [online], 2018(January), nestránkováno.
• Hrešanová E., & Michaels P. (2018). Socialist Science across Borders: Investigating Pain in Soviet and Czechoslovakian Maternity Care. Revue d'Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest, 49(1), 45-69. UT-WOS link
• Hrešanová E. (2023). Comrades and spies From socialist scholarship to claims of colonial innocence in the Czech Republic. American Ethnologist, 50(3), 419-430. UT-WOS link
• Kuipers Y., Thomson G., Goberna-Tricas J., Zurera A., Hrešanová E., Temesgenová N., Waldner I., & Leinweber J. (2023). The social conception of space of birth narrated by women with negative and traumatic birth experiences. Women and Birth, 36(1), 78-85. UT-WOS link

Contributions in the conference proceedings

medical anthropology

anthropology of gender and sexualities

anthropology of kinship

(digital) ethnography and qualitative methodologies.

2024-2027: Discovery Project “Medical Internationalism: Cuba and Eastern Europe, 1959-1999.” Australian Research Council. Principal Investigator (chief investigator prof. Paula Michaels). 

2019-2023: COST Action DEVoTION: Perinatal mental health and birth-related trauma: Maximising best practice and optimal outcomes, CA18211. Management Committee Member. https://www.ca18211.eu/

2016-2018: Research Project ‘Migration and Maternal Health: Pregnancy, Birth and Early Parental Practices’, grant number GA16-10953S. Czech Science Foundation. Co-investigator (principal investigator Dr Alena Pařízková).

2015-2016: Jan Hus Educational Foundation Fellowship; Research on alternative childbirth practices during the ‘Consolidation Regime’ (the so-called ‘Normalizace’) in Socialist Czechoslovakia, the 1980s.

2014–2018: COST Action Building Intrapartum Research Through Health - an interdisciplinary whole system approach to understanding and contextualising physiological labour and birth (BIRTH), IS1405. Management Committee Member. https://eubirthresearch.wordpress.com/

2012 – 2014: COST Action Childbirth Cultures, Concerns, and Consequences: Creating a dynamic EU framework for optimal maternity care (Childbirth Cultures), ISO907 (Individuals, societies, cultures and health). Management Committee Member.

2011-2013: Postdoctoral Research Grant ‘Natural Childbirth Movement and Feminist Approaches to Childbirth in the Czech Republic: Systems of Social Actions and Thought’, grant number P404/11/P089; Czech Science Foundation. Chief investigator.

medical anthropology; gender and health; anthropology of ethics and moralities; historical anthropology; (digital) ethnography and qualitative methodology.

Social studies of health and illness; medical anthropology. Gender and health: anthropology of birth and human reproduction. Anthropology of moralities and ethics.