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HOME 業績プロフィール English	<< TOP PAGE Azumi Tsuge is a Professor at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo (Dean of the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work 2018-2020, Vice president of Meiji Gakuin University 2021-2024). Her research on reproductive medicine and technology draws on interdisciplinary perspectives from Medical Anthropology, STS, Bioethics, and Gender Studies. She was awarded the Special Prize of the Kakiuchi Yoshinobu Memorial Prize for Science, Technology, and Society 2023 for her "significant contribution to the social theory of science, technology, and society by analyzing the spread of Advanced Reproductive Technologies and its interaction with culture and social values." Her recent book, Seishoku-gijutu to Oya-ni Narukoto (Reproductive Technology and Becoming a Parent), published by Misuzu Shobo in 2022, was awarded the Grand Prize of the Japan Medical Journalist Association in 2022. Her representative papers in English are “Women's decision-making and their experiences in the changing socio-technical system of prenatal testing in Japan, the 1980s to 2010s,” in 2021 and “Life After Experiences of Infertility Treatment: Akirameru ?The First Step for Empowering.” in 2009 and so on. Education March, 1996 Ochanomizu University Tokyo, Japan, Ph.D. in Anthropology March, 1985 Saitama University Saitama, Japan, MSc in Biology March, 1983 Saitama University Saitama, Japan, Bachelor in Science Professional Positions (after 1999) April, 2003-Present Professor Department of Sociology, Meijigakuin University, Tokyo September, 2005-2011 Visiting Professor Institution for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo April, 2004-August,2005 Visiting Scholar Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and Institution for Research on Women and Gender Studies Stanford University, California, USA Selective award and grant 2023 The Special Prize of the Kakiuchi Yoshinobu Memorial Prize for Science, Technology, and Society 2023 for her "significant contribution to the social theory of science, technology, and society by analyzing the spread of Advanced Reproductive Technologies and its interaction with culture and social values. 2022 Seishokugijutu to Oya-ninarukoto (Reproductive Technology and Becoming a Parent: Focusing The Conflicts Posed by Fertility Treatment and Prenatal Testing) won the grand prize of the Medical Journalists Association of Japan Award, 2022. 2013-2015 The Study of Women's Decision Making Processes on their Experiences of Pregnancy and Prenatal Tests (Tsuge, Azumi Principal Researcher)Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (Class B) 2009-2011 The Gender Analysis of Interrelationship Between Medical Technologies and Society: Focusing on Gene, Egg, and Fetus (Tsuge, Azumi Principal Researcher) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (Class B) 2006-2008 The Gender Analysis of Interrelationship Between Medical Technologies and Society (Tsuge, Azumi Principal Researcher) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (Class B) 2002-2004 The Comparative Study of Women's Decision Making Processes in Prenatal Tests (Tsuge, Azumi Principal Researcher) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (Class C) 2000 Reproductive Technology as Culture : Narratives of Japanese Gynecologists Regarding Infertility Treatment (Tsuge, A., published by Shorai Sha, 1998) The 20th Yamakawa Kikue Commemoration Women’s Issues Incentive Prize (aka. The Yamakawa Kikue Award) from Yamakawa Kikue Commemoration Association 1996-1998 The Ethnography at Hospital Wards : With Recognition of Illness by Hospitalized Patients and Its Process of Formation at the Core (Tsuge, Azumi , Principal Researcher), Health Sciences University of Hokkaido) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (Class C) Selective Publications in English TSUGE, Azumi, 2021 Women's decision-making and their experiences in the changing socio-technical system of prenatal testing in Japan, 1980s to 2010s, ICON: The Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology, 26-2，pp.60-80. Wu, Chia-Ling, Jung-Ok Ha, and Azumi Tsuge, 2020 Data Reporting as Care Infrastructure: Assembling ART Registries in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal: 14-1, pp.35-59. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/18752160-8233676 TSUGE, Azumi, 2016 Ethical and Social Implication of Current Prenatal Genetic Testing, Journal of Mammalian Ova Research, 33-2, pp.109-113.DOI: 10.1274/jmor.33.109 Tsuge Azumi 2015 Considering the Social Background of Prenatal Tests in Japan The Meiji Gakuin Sociology and Social Welfare Review, 145, pp.137-164. Mimura K., Kokado M., Hong, H., Chang C., and Tsuge A. 2014 “Patient-Centered Development? Comparing Japanese and Other Gynecological Examination Tables and Practices”, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, Vol.8,No.3, pp.323$2013345. Tsuge, A, and Hong Hyunsoo “Reconsidering ethical issues about ‘voluntary egg donors’ in Hwang's case in global context” New Genetics and Society, 30:3, 241-252, 2011. Tsuge, A,　“Life After Experiences of Infertility Treatment: Akirameru - The First Step for Empowering”, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, Vol.2, No.3, pp.381-400, 2009. Tsuge, A,　 “How Japanese Women Describe Their Experiences of Prenatal Testing: Ultrasound, Maternal Serum Screening, and Amniocentesis”, 　In M. Sleeboom-Faulkner ed. Frameworks of Choice: Predictive and Genetic Testing in Asia, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, Netherlands, pp.109-123, 2010.$00A0 Tsuge, A,　“Life After Experiences of Infertility Treatment: Akirameru $2014The First Step for Empowering” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, Vol.3, No.1, pp.381-400, 2009.$00A0 Tsuge, A, “How Society Responds to Desires of Childless Couples: Japan’s Position on Donor Conception” Bulletin of Institute of Sociology and Social Work, Meiji Gakuin University No.35,pp.21-34, 2005. Tsuge, A, “Incorporation of Support for Infertility Treatment into Population Policy” The International Society for Gender studies vol.3,pp.9-34,2005.(Japanese with English Abstract) △UP

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Azumi Tsuge is a Professor at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo (Dean of the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work 2018-2020, Vice president of Meiji Gakuin University 2021-2024). Her research on reproductive medicine and technology draws on interdisciplinary perspectives from Medical Anthropology, STS, Bioethics, and Gender Studies.

She was awarded the Special Prize of the Kakiuchi Yoshinobu Memorial Prize for Science, Technology, and Society 2023 for her "significant contribution to the social theory of science, technology, and society by analyzing the spread of Advanced Reproductive Technologies and its interaction with culture and social values."

Her recent book, Seishoku-gijutu to Oya-ni Narukoto (Reproductive Technology and Becoming a Parent), published by Misuzu Shobo in 2022, was awarded the Grand Prize of the Japan Medical Journalist Association in 2022. Her representative papers in English are “Women's decision-making and their experiences in the changing socio-technical system of prenatal testing in Japan, the 1980s to 2010s,” in 2021 and “Life After Experiences of Infertility Treatment: Akirameru ?The First Step for Empowering.” in 2009 and so on.

Education
March, 1996 Ochanomizu University Tokyo, Japan, Ph.D. in Anthropology
March, 1985 Saitama University Saitama, Japan, MSc in Biology
March, 1983 Saitama University Saitama, Japan, Bachelor in Science

Professional Positions (after 1999)
April, 2003-Present
Professor
Department of Sociology, Meijigakuin University, Tokyo

September, 2005-2011
Visiting Professor
Institution for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo

April, 2004-August,2005
Visiting Scholar
Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and Institution for Research on Women and Gender Studies
Stanford University, California, USA

Selective award and grant
2023
The Special Prize of the Kakiuchi Yoshinobu Memorial Prize for Science, Technology, and Society 2023 for her "significant contribution to the social theory of science, technology, and society by analyzing the spread of Advanced Reproductive Technologies and its interaction with culture and social values.

2022
Seishokugijutu to Oya-ninarukoto (Reproductive Technology and Becoming a Parent: Focusing The Conflicts Posed by Fertility Treatment and Prenatal Testing) won the grand prize of the Medical Journalists Association of Japan Award, 2022.

2013-2015
The Study of Women's Decision Making Processes on their Experiences of Pregnancy and Prenatal Tests (Tsuge, Azumi Principal Researcher)Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (Class B)

2009-2011
The Gender Analysis of Interrelationship Between Medical Technologies and Society: Focusing on Gene, Egg, and Fetus
(Tsuge, Azumi Principal Researcher) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (Class B)

2006-2008
The Gender Analysis of Interrelationship Between Medical Technologies and Society (Tsuge, Azumi Principal Researcher) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (Class B)

2002-2004
The Comparative Study of Women's Decision Making Processes in Prenatal Tests (Tsuge, Azumi Principal Researcher) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (Class C)

2000
Reproductive Technology as Culture : Narratives of Japanese Gynecologists Regarding Infertility Treatment
(Tsuge, A., published by Shorai Sha, 1998)
The 20th Yamakawa Kikue Commemoration Women’s Issues Incentive Prize (aka. The Yamakawa Kikue Award) from Yamakawa Kikue Commemoration Association

1996-1998
The Ethnography at Hospital Wards : With Recognition of Illness by Hospitalized Patients and Its Process of Formation at the Core (Tsuge, Azumi , Principal Researcher), Health Sciences University of Hokkaido) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (Class C)

Selective Publications in English
TSUGE, Azumi, 2021 Women's decision-making and their experiences in the changing socio-technical system of prenatal testing in Japan, 1980s to 2010s, ICON: The Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology, 26-2，pp.60-80.

Wu, Chia-Ling, Jung-Ok Ha, and Azumi Tsuge, 2020 Data Reporting as Care Infrastructure: Assembling ART Registries in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal: 14-1, pp.35-59. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/18752160-8233676

TSUGE, Azumi, 2016 Ethical and Social Implication of Current Prenatal Genetic Testing, Journal of Mammalian Ova Research, 33-2, pp.109-113.DOI: 10.1274/jmor.33.109

Tsuge Azumi 2015 Considering the Social Background of Prenatal Tests in Japan The Meiji Gakuin Sociology and Social Welfare Review, 145, pp.137-164.

Mimura K., Kokado M., Hong, H., Chang C., and Tsuge A. 2014 “Patient-Centered Development? Comparing Japanese and Other Gynecological Examination Tables and Practices”, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, Vol.8,No.3, pp.323$2013345.

Tsuge, A, and Hong Hyunsoo “Reconsidering ethical issues about ‘voluntary egg donors’ in Hwang's case in global context” New Genetics and Society, 30:3, 241-252, 2011.

Tsuge, A,　“Life After Experiences of Infertility Treatment: Akirameru - The First Step for Empowering”, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, Vol.2, No.3, pp.381-400, 2009.

Tsuge, A,　 “How Japanese Women Describe Their Experiences of Prenatal Testing: Ultrasound, Maternal Serum Screening, and Amniocentesis”, 　In M. Sleeboom-Faulkner ed. Frameworks of Choice: Predictive and Genetic Testing in Asia, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, Netherlands, pp.109-123, 2010.$00A0

Tsuge, A,　“Life After Experiences of Infertility Treatment: Akirameru $2014The First Step for Empowering” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, Vol.3, No.1, pp.381-400, 2009.$00A0

Tsuge, A, “How Society Responds to Desires of Childless Couples: Japan’s Position on Donor Conception” Bulletin of Institute of Sociology and Social Work, Meiji Gakuin University No.35,pp.21-34, 2005.

Tsuge, A, “Incorporation of Support for Infertility Treatment into Population Policy” The International Society for Gender studies vol.3,pp.9-34,2005.(Japanese with English Abstract)

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