Raymond G. De Vries

Raymond De Vries PhD is Professor emeritus in the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine at the University of Michigan and is a Professor emeritus in the Department of Learning Health Sciences, the Department of Sociology, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is also Professor emeritus at CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. He is particularly interested in the regulation of science and the production of scientific knowledge; clinical trials of genetic therapies; the export of western moral traditions to non-western societies; and the social, ethical, and policy issues associated with the medicalization of pregnancy and birth. In 2005 he published A Pleasing Birth: Midwifery and Maternity Care in the Netherlands (Temple University Press), and he is co-editor of The View from Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences (Blackwell, 2007), Bioethics in the Field, a special issue of Social Science in Medicine (2013), and Critical Studies of Risk and Uncertainty in Maternity Care (Palgrave, forthcoming).