Dr. habil. Malgorzata Rajtar

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsSocial and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
KeywordsJehovah's Witnesses, healthcare policy, religion, medical anthropology, sociocultural anthropology

Current contact address

CountryPoland
CityWarsaw
InstitutionPolish Academy of Sciences
InstituteWarsaw School of Social Psychology
Homepagehttps://ifispan.pl/members/mrajtarifispan-waw-pl/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Hansjörg DilgerInstitut für Ethnologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2011

Programme(s)

2011Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025Malgorzata Rajtar: Patient Passports and Vulnerability: Disjunctures in Health Policy Instruments for People with Rare Diseases. In: Social Science & Medicine, 366:117642, 2025,
2025Malgorzata Rajtar: Sensing Rhabdomyolysis: Building Sensorial Knowledge in Inherited Metabolic Disorders in Poland. In: Medical Anthropology. Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 44, 2025, 441-456
2025Malgorzata Rajtar: We do not “indulge in blood”: religion, materiality, and biomedicine in Germany. In: K. Baraniecka-Olszewska, J. Buyskykh, A. Kościańska, M. Lubańska, Kultury religijne, kultury pogranicza. Kolaże etnograficzne prof. Magdalenie Zowczak podarowane. [Religious Cultures, Borderland Cultures, Anthropological Collages dedicated to Professor Magdalena Zowczak]. Warsaw University Press, 2025. 394-411
2024Malgorzata Rajtar, Eva-Maria Knoll: Anthropology, Global Health, and Rare Diseases. In: T.B. Masvawure, E. Foley The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health. Routledge, 2024. 353-365
2023Malgorzata Rajtar: "Small’ Data, Isolated Populations, and New Categories of Rare Diseases in Finland and Poland. In: Anthropology & Medicine, 30, 2023, 1-16
2023Malgorzata Rajtar: Antycypując przyszłość – diagnoza a doświadczenie w rzadkiej chorobie w Polsce [Anticipating the Future: Diagnosis and Experiences of a Rare Disease in Poland. In: LUD, 107, 2023, 10-41
2023Malgorzata Rajtar, Katarzyna E. Krol (eds.): Entanglements of Rare Diseases in the Baltic Sea Region. Lexington Books, 2023
2022Katarzyna E. Krol, Malgorzata Rajtar: Practicing Resilience While Negotiating the Pandemic: The Experiences of People with Rare Diseases in Poland. In: I. Ali, R. Davies-Floyd Negotiating the Pandemic: Cultural, National and Individual Constructions of COVID-19. Routledge, 2022. 125-138
2021Malgorzata Rajtar: Competing Religious and Biomedical Notions of Treatment: The Case of Blood Transfusion Refusals. In: D. Lüddeckens, P. Klassen, P. Hetmanczyk, J. Stein The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health. Routledge, 2021. 406-420
2020Malgorzata Rajtar: The Concept of Vulnerability in Research Ethics and Health Policies on Rare Diseases. In: Przegląd Socjologiczny/ Sociological Review 69, 2020, 107-127
2019Malgorzata Rajtar: Bioetyka i technologie wzmacniania ludzkiego ciała w kontekście doświadczeń kobiet z zespołem Turnera [Bioethics and enhancement technologies in the experiences of women with Turner syndrome]. In: E. Maciejewska-Mroczek, M. Radkowska, M. Reimann Zespół Turnera. Głosy i doświadczenia [Turner syndrome. Voices and Experiences]. Oficyna Naukowa, 2019. 171-197
2019Malgorzata Rajtar: Christians in the Biomedical Embrace: A Case of “No Blood Transfusion” Policy in Germany. In: M. Buchowski, Twilight Zone Anthropology. A Voice from Poland. Sean Kingston Publishing, 2019. 213-231
2019Malgorzata Rajtar: Normalised Eating and Dietary Guidelines in LCHAD Deficiency. In: Ethnologia Polona, 40, 2019, 91-108
2018Malgorzata Rajtar: Relational autonomy, care, and Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany. In: Bioethics, 32, 2018, 184-192
2017Malgorzata Rajtar: O (nie)naturalności jedzenia. Pokarmy i technologie biomedyczne w chorobach metabolicznych [On the (Un)Naturalness of Eating: Foods and Biomedical Technologies in Metabolic Disorders]. In: LUD, 101, 2017, 383-400
2017Malgorzata Rajtar: Refusing Blood, Establishing Relational Biocitizenship: Collectivizing Moments among Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany. In: Medizinethnologie. Körper, Gesundheit und Heilung in einer globalisierten Welt, 2017, 1-9
2017Malgorzata Rajtar: Religion und Geschlecht bei den Zeugen Jehovas in (Ost-) Deutschland. In: Kornelia Sammet, Friederike Benthaus, Christel Gärtner, Religionen und Geschlechterordnungen. Springer VS, 2017. 179-195
2016Malgorzata Rajtar: Health care reform and Diagnosis Related Groups in Germany: The mediating role of Hospital Liaison Committees for Jehovah’s Witnesses.. In: Social Science & Medicine, 2016, 57-65
2016Malgorzata Rajtar: Jehovah's Witness patients within the German medical landscape. In: Anthropology & Medicine, 2016, 172-187
2014Malgorzata Rajtar: Krew jako cia?o „obce” i „indywidualne”. Krew i bioto?samo?? na przyk?adzie ?wiadków Jehowy w Niemczech [BLOOD AS AN ‘ALIEN’ AND ‘INDIVIDUAL’ BODY: BLOOD AND BIOIDENTITY AND JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES IN GERMANY]. In: Etnografia Polska [Polish Ethnography], 2014, 101-116
2014Malgorzata Rajtar: Serce i krew. Rodziny ?wiadków Jehowy wobec zespo?u Downa [Blood and the Heart. Jehovah’s Witness Families and Down Syndrome]. In: Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz, Hubert Wiercinski, Etnografie biomedycyny [Ethnographies of Biomedicine]. Warsaw University Press, 2014. 259-275
2013Malgorzata Rajtar: Bioethics and religious bodies. Refusal of blood transfusions in Germany. In: Social Science & Medicine, 2013, 271-277