Dr. Sanal completed her doctoral degree in history, anthropology, science, technology and society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a medical anthropologist, she conducted research on organ trafficking and transplants in Turkey with a particular focus on political economy, corruption, social justice, the body, and the state. Her first book, New Organs Within Us (Duke 2011) is on transplants, death and dying in a time of political transformation in post-Cold War Turkey, and its connections to Europe and to the Middle East. Dr. Sanal uses personal conversations and regular interviews as a tool to follow the transformations in scientists’ inner lives over years.
