Prof. Eyal Katvan
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Prof. Eyal Katvan
ABOUT
This website is based on the rationale that academic knowledge should be made accessible to the general public. The main tier of the site presents and makes available to the public the products of research and academic, professional and public activity of Prof. Eyal Katvan. A major part of Prof. Katvan’s studies focuses on the history of the medical and legal professions.
In this spirit, Prof. Katvan will soon launch a virtual center for the history of legal and medical professions. The virtual center includes the names of most of the medical and legal professionals (lawyers, doctors, midwives, registered nurses, dentists, dental assistants, pharmacists and assistant pharmacists). These lists have been prepared with great effort, in order to add a biographical note to each professional, in the future.
The site was founded by Miri Katvan, with over twenty years of experience in setting up websites and portals, knowledge management, content management, digital marketing and digital project management, in the commercial and educational fields.
Evacuation of the wounded soldiers
(Courtesy, Dudu Grinsphan)
BIOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND
Prof. Eyal Katvan is a Jurist, Ethicist, Bioethicist and Legal and Medical Historian. He is an Associate Professor at Peres Academic Center.
He developed an interest in combining the fields of law and medicine after surviving severe injuries during army trainings, which necessitated prolonged periods of hospitalization. Subsequently, as an LLB student, he sought to explore various aspects of the patient’s experience so as to better understand the medical and health professions, the professionals, the practice of medicine, patient-doctor relations, the legal regulation of the practice of medicine, and especially the legal (health law) and ethical aspects of the medical profession and practice. His aim is also to contribute to changing the manner in which the healthcare system generally, and caregivers in particular, operate.
ACADEMIA
Fields of research
Prof. Katvan wrote two Doctoral dissertations. first doctoral dissertation, completed at the Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, which focused on compulsory examinations and the link between compulsory examinations and social and gender oppression. second doctoral dissertation, completed at Bar-Ilan University’s program in Science, Technology and Society (STS, formerly the History and Philosophy of the Sciences). This research explored the issue of medical examinations of immigrants to Mandatory Palestine between the two world wars. The research he conducts is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, combining the fields of Law, Medicine, Women/Gender, Ethics and History, focusing on:
Health/Medical Profession(s), History of Medicine and Bioethics/Medical Humanities
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Medical, Physical and Psychological Examinations
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History of the medical professions (Dentistry; Midwifery; Medicine) and history of Women in the Medical/Health Professions
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Public Health – History and Current Lessons
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Organ Transplantation
The Legal Professions, Professional Ethics and Legal History
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The Professionalization Process and the History of the Legal Professions History of Women in this Profession
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Professional Ethics (lawyers and judges), Honor and Behavior
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Publication and Dissemination of Legal Knowledge
Kavod/Honor and Respect
Research and Publications
Many of his studies have been published in the leading peer-reviewed legal, historical (Israel Studies), gender/women’s studies and medical journals. His research is cited in courts decisions (including precedential Supreme Court decisions), and the daily press.
His studies create a new set of knowledge about the way professions evolved (History of Law & Medicine; legal history of the professions) and the way professions operate these days; the way these professions and professionals influence one another, and the way each profession can teach us about the other professions. The fact that each of these themes is examined from various angles– gender, history, ethics, etc. – using different methodological tools, provides a rich and accurate picture, and enables understanding of the mixed interests of the various “players,” the latent functions and the symbols of each phenomena or practice. The specific topics he researched also facilitate a better understanding of basic issues and questions, such as age and ageism; the importance of transparency in the legal and medical practices (enhancing public confidence); scarce medical and legal resources; judicial independence; access to justice; freedom of speech; honor; the importance of symbols; Anglicization; and differential legislation, among others.
Conferences, Lectures and Academic Activity
Prof. Katvan presented his research at dozens of conferences and workshops, in cooperation with leading scholars in the field in Israel and abroad. He is routinely invited to attend conferences or deliver lectures. He organized several large conferences, workshops and mock trials, including three international workshops at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, focused on three questions – which centered on the issue of access to justice - the rising number of lawyers and overcrowding of the profession (“too many lawyers?”); the image of the court as it evolved and the question of whether there are enough judges (“too few judges?”); and the prevalence of litigation (“too much litigation?”).
He serve as a member of the Academic Advisory Committee, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, board member of the Israeli Law & Society Association and more.
He won several prizes, scholarships and grants, including from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) and the Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research (NIHP).
Visiting Scholar
Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Hadassah Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University MA, USA
International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain
Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, Germany
Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
Evacuation of the wounded soldiers
(Courtesy, Dudu Grinsphan)
Teaching
Prof. Katvan teaches – professional ethics and the legal profession, health laws, law and history – correlate directly with his areas of research. To date he have taught thousands of students. He finds a value-added benefit in being able to provide his students an education in legal and medical ethics based on an understanding of and familiarity with the theories and practices in both professions, and on an understanding of the social role of these professions and professionals.
PUBLIC ACTIVITY
In terms of public activity, Prof. Katvan serve on committees that address the above issues. He have chaired the Public Committee on Age Limit for Organ Transplantation. The Committee, which included 25 members from various fields, decided to remove the maximum age limit for receiving an organ transplant in Israel. The director-general of the Ministry of Health accepted the Committee’s recommendations. He also chaired the Forum on Regulation of Organ Donors Treatment, whose mission was to map and optimize the donation process and make it accessible to potential and actual donors.
In addition, he serve as a member of the National Transplantation Steering Committee, the
research committee of the National Transplant Center and, in the past, an institutional (ethical)
committee for live organ donation as well as the National IRB Committee (genetic experiments).
Prof. Katvan prepared a research paper on judicial ethics, based on decisions of the Ombudsman of the Israeli Judiciary, which is intended for use by judges in the course of their work.
He is a member of the Israel Bar Association since 1998.